This is no honeymoon, the American “left” will never recover from the Harris/Walz combo; every major base of support (demographic/economic) is covered; Black woman with a jovial heartlandish white man standing behind her is the universal password for the legendary “competent American fascism” software update leftists have been prophesying.
They got this shit locked for at least eight years, Walz is suburbanite catnip and Harris has the identity libs eating out her hands, along with big tech, wallstreet, and the zionist lobby who are now methodically eliminating the last holdouts of the post-2016 nascent left movement
There is no credible avenue of leverage here, the libs can effectively respond to any leftist utterance with accusations of racism, misogyny, and purity testing and it will stick. Already we have most liberals being one rhetorical step away from defending Walz unleashing the National Guard on BLM protesters
There is no point in engaging with domestic national politics at this current time, the ball is firmly overseas
The only series of events that can undermine this new DNC paradigm is Israel blowing up the world and the US mobilizing to save it. Not even the collapse of Ukraine can dent it now, since that was “Biden’s project”
Hate to say it, but the DNC won a firm generational victory
I understand the feeling however I must offer an anecdote.
I was out to dinner with 3 politically disengaged friends. They were scared of project 2025, trump is hitler, gotta vote blue to save democracy etc. one was even a shooter for Israel (but not the bad stuff they’re doing) because her grandpa was Jewish or something.
Despite them being smart enough to recognize that in our solid blue state my vote didn’t matter, I was still knee jerk criticized for being a “trump voter” after pointing out the dems won’t change anything for abortion rights and Palestine.
All of this is to say I had to calm myself down because I care about my friends while also wrestling with the realization that ppl who aren’t touching the computer/phone in order to grasp a clearer picture of current events are in exactly the same place as 2016.