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If Harris Loses Today, This Is Why (jacobin.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Given that Democrats pulled less votes than 2020, it's not the undecided between D&R that decided this election, it's the ones undecided between D or not voting. As stupid of a choice that is, those are the ones that voted way less in this election, and those voters maybe would have voted more if the platform was more anti-elite. I don't know how many swingers would pass to R with that move, though.

Really stupid to not vote in protest because D is not left enough since that mathematically is equivalent to voting the winner, in this case R. In any case, going more left might have helped more.