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[–] yesman -4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

What is the lesson they are supposed to learn? Stop running women candidates?

Harris' loss wasn't some Electoral College bullshit, or 3rd party spoiler. Maybe the Palestinian vote cost her Dearborn, but it can't explain the numbers throughout Michigan, much less Georgia and North Carolina.

I'm skeptical that leftest policy would save the Democrats when the country just roundly rejected liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

They made a ton of promises those last couple weeks in 2020 to flip Georgia and kept none of them

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 122 points 1 week ago (3 children)

“To all those growing skeptical of this party’s strategies and overall agenda, let me just say we hear you loud and clear. Rest assured we will be doing everything short of interpreting that sound into words and responding to those words in any way shape or form.”

The best line in the whole article

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[–] frazw 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democrats: "Moving right a little didn't work this time. Next time let's try moving a little more to the right."

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While I'm mostly sure it parody, its gotten really hard to tell lately.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I think they just got stuck in a rut. They have been dealing with an all-obstructionist Republican party for nearly 16 years now, ever since Obama was elected, if not before.

They stopped promising the moon because they became policy wonks and focused on what was realistically achievable, only making promises they thought they could turn into reality with an obstructionist party blocking them.

Hillary Clinton not-so-famously did a bunch of number crunching on a Basic Income and then said it wouldn't work, so that's why she didn't campaign on anything like that.

They stopped being dreamers, started being policy wonks, and were unwilling to make promises they didn't think they could keep. Think about the amount of messaging in the last few elections about how progressives were asking too much because we have to be realistic about what we can pass with only a sliver of a majority. People rightly view that as starting from a point of compromise and thus as weak.

Trump promised to smash norms and ignore laws to get his promises done, which people wrongly view as strong. When Republicans like Trump make promises, they are completely unburdened by whether they can accomplish them or not: make the promise, follow through be damned.

Nobody wants a policy wonk telling them they need to wait until their kids are middle aged for things to get better for their family, and the Democrats somehow failed to realize this in 16 years.

Obama was the last Democrat to run on change in the system. Everyone else has been Bush-era-style "Stay the course" status-quo enabling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They are going to get change now. Especially if they are deported or jailed.

[–] MutilationWave 1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right, they don't seem to understand the kind of change they've chosen here. If they were actually upset about corruption, they picked the wrong team.

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