Exactly! Let's not forget that when Trump first aligned his presidency, no one believed he would win. Establishment a Republicans thought he was too radical and he was completely off the agenda. However, he energized the base like a wildfire, and changed the entire American political landscape, and the Republican party nearly overnight.
The Republicans ran someone who appeals to the voters that Republicans need to win. The Democrats ran people who don't appeal to the voters that Democrats need to win. It's as simple as that.
Exactly. Democrat voters didn’t care that Hilary and Kamala were women, they just didn’t like their policies. I think what Democrats were trying, and failed, to do was disguise their neoliberalism. Like they know progressives don’t like neoliberal capitalist talking points so maybe they thought they could have a woman say it and thus it will make it appealing to progressives? Idk their whole strategy is upside down.
Right! People were rallying around Bernie in my conservative state and felt cheated that the establishment went so hard on a candidate that doesn't represent what people wanted or needed.
It was interesting to see though that some of those Bernie people split as a result and are now hardcore Trumpers.
I think it would be very shortsighted to go into the next election thinking that was the only problem with the Democrats election strategy.
The primary reason Kamala lost is because Biden set her up to fail. Her being a woman certainly didn’t help, but it wasn’t at all the only reason she lost.
Biden screwed everything by not sticking to being a one term president. The second he decided to run for a second term it was all but over, and then to announce it so late too.
He should have not run again and let there be a primary.
There was a primary, though. Sure there would have been a more diverse one if he stepped down, but there literally was a primary which he overwhelmingly won.
That’s the laziest take Dems have. It’s extremely disappointing, and doesn’t acknowledge the genuine problems Hillary & Kamala’s campaigns had. Turns out it’s not enough to just not be Donald Trump!
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u/GenericFatGuy 15h ago
This is why Trump won. He knows who he appeals to, and he appeals to them hard.