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Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says (www.sltrib.com)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They certainly did, but that's not why they won.

They broadened their coalition because they focused on the economic message. like Clinton in the 90's. Democrats spent an entire campaign telling their voter base to be joyful about being poorer.

Purely from a standard of living and economic standpoint, he’s going to make lives worse for so many people that aren’t his billionaire cronies.

Probably, but the problem is, people just lived through four years of their lives being made substantially worse by Dems and their billionaire cronies, and when pressed, Kamala refused to own it and said publicly that there's nothing she'd do differently. That gets you votes flipping to Republican and millions of former voters who opted not to miss a badly-needed day's pay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't disagree about the Democrats shooting themselves in the foot by campaigning on pathetic status quo politics, but

they focused on the economic message

Come on, Trump isn't coherent on anything, let alone complex issues like the economy. Culture wars and stoking moral panic about minority groups was the Republican platform down to a T.

[–] FlashMobOfOne 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don't get me wrong.

I'm not calling Trump a policy wonk by any means, but apart from the Arnold Palmer incident and the 45-minute playlist thing he did with Kristi Noem (which apparently the voters found endearing, oddly enough), he and the Republicans had a more appealing message for the average voter. (Not that it takes much of a brain to say "Your life under Biden has been rotten. We'll do better.")