Late Stage Capitalism

Exactly the message I expect them to take away from this, if 2016 and 2020 are any indication. Zero introspection.

Our constituents' rent went up 15% and their wages stayed the same, so everything is basically ok.

It shouldn't have to be repeated so often that maybe Republican voters aren't who the Democratic party needs to be gearing itself to attract.

Turns out people who want those things can vote for Republicans. Who offer more of those things!

And the people who did not want those things stayed home.

Because right wingers want that and left wingers don't, that's some surprising maths.

Republicans had a primary.

This why people think they are a psyop.

I don't think there has ever, in history, been a group capable of doing that at this scale other than the Democratic Party. They are the greatest to ever do it.

People didn't vote. Significantly less turnout this year than 2020. Further left is more exciting than an idiot chasing endorsement from Republicans.

It's stupid, but if people weren't stupid Trump wouldn't have been a candidate.

Yes. People want a populous movement. In the absence of left-wing populism (like socialist reforms), they will take right win populism (fascism).

Less people voted Trump in 2024 than in 2020. It is not that Trump won, it is that Biden/Harris lost hard.

Trump: 74 Mio. in 2020, 73 Mio. in 2024

Biden/Harris: 81 Mio. in 2020, 69 Mio. in 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

Republicans always seem to win with shitty candidates because they understand this intrinsically. They do not care that DJT is an utter buffoon, they care that he will enact the shit they want, and now they're getting it because they refused to stay home. As the saying goes: Democrats want to fall in love, Republicans want to fall in line.

So Republicans backed their guy, just like they did the last two elections, and there was no line that could not be crossed that would convince even a fraction of Republicans to not vote. Meanwhile, virtue signaling lefties desperately tried to convince me for months that I shouldn't vote for Biden OR Harris because they were both equally culpable for a genocide that is happening halfway across the world, as if Trump would have been any better.

Yeah, we absolutely deserve to be punished for this. We let this happen. If Dems could actually get a solid trifecta in the government, we might have a shot at actually reversing some of the damage that has been accumulating since Reagan, but that requires people to set aside their purity tests and hold their noses at the ballot box. The real elitists are the Democratic base who feel personally slighted at the idea of compromise or harm reduction.

Trump won both times because he departed from GOP ideology, not his voters. Harm reduction doesn't get voters to the polls.

This isn't about you and me. A campaign centered around "stop this person" is just less effective than one centered around "let's start doing this".

This is the second time in a decade that the liberal establishment expected the US voting public to actually do something about all the fascism they themselves don't seem to actually want or can do anything about.

The "Vote Harder!" brigade was warned about this - at one point or the other, "lesser evilism" is going to hit rock-bottom.

The term "literally Hitler" is a lot less impactful when democrats have been complicit in genocide for an entire year.

If Trump did what Biden did, I have no doubt you would have called him literally Hitler for it.

Oh, you mean the primary where no one else had universal ballot access? Where there was only one actually viable challenger, Dean Phillips, who the Democrats drove out of politics afterwards? That primary?

Like, FFS, even the pundit class doesn't pretend that was a serious primary. Stop pretending a ceremonial vote means something.