• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    … to the centre and independents whom we need.

    kamala harris said the same thing and so did hillary clinton.

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      14 hours ago

      ??? Clinton, one of the most unpopular candidates in history, came within a couple hundred thousand votes.

      Harris lost running on massive inflation, in the same wave that saw almost every incumbent government thrown out by historic margins and still came within only a couple of points of trump.

      I’d also argue Harris was a bit doomed because of how hard we took the bait last time and screamed HITLER at every provocation. The independents and centrists who watched that and endured a bad but relatively normal presidency learned the lesson that the Left exaggerates and that their warnings are without merit. If we’d “kept our powder dry” maybe we could’ve convinced them the 6th was as bad as it was but, like my younger sister, we just screamed, took the bait and lost despite being right.

      Call it the party who cried HITLER.

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        1 hour ago

        axois’ reporting on the dnc’s attempt to suppress the last election’s post mortem investigation and the yougov polls of pro-biden/anti-harris voters have shown us that harris lost 10 million votes because of gaza.

        these people were disaffected by the system in the same way that it disaffected clinton’s voters despite registered democrats outnumbering registered republicans.

        so many are disaffected now that there aren’t enough 3rd party voters to make up for the difference.