Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) reflects on Democrats’ losses in the 2024 election after sending a memo calling on his party to “embrace a more populist message.”
If Biden dropped out sooner, and we had a primary, and the candidate was someone from outside the administration who could say things that they would have done differently and had more history of passing progressive policy, maybe things would have been different. But who fucking knows. People would still have thought the candidate was constantly talking about trans people and pronouns even though they wouldn’t have been, would have still wanted to punish the current people in power for inflation which could have extended to any other democratic candidate, and all the other issues the electorate punished the democrats for. Maybe, though, it would have helped democratic turnout at least.
Sadly we will never know and because some people decided to stay home and others decided to embrace fascism because of the economy, we get to deal with the ramifications.
It is disinformation warfare. We can argue this and that should be done, but it is unlikely it would make much difference. Many people who voted for trump had believed Harris positions that were opposite from reality. People get their news from social media which is easily manipulated.
Ironically social media are no longer social, they are full of bots and AI generated content that is used to manipulate our views.
If Biden dropped out sooner, and we had a primary, and the candidate was someone from outside the administration who could say things that they would have done differently and had more history of passing progressive policy, maybe things would have been different. But who fucking knows. People would still have thought the candidate was constantly talking about trans people and pronouns even though they wouldn’t have been, would have still wanted to punish the current people in power for inflation which could have extended to any other democratic candidate, and all the other issues the electorate punished the democrats for. Maybe, though, it would have helped democratic turnout at least.
Sadly we will never know and because some people decided to stay home and others decided to embrace fascism because of the economy, we get to deal with the ramifications.
It is disinformation warfare. We can argue this and that should be done, but it is unlikely it would make much difference. Many people who voted for trump had believed Harris positions that were opposite from reality. People get their news from social media which is easily manipulated.
Ironically social media are no longer social, they are full of bots and AI generated content that is used to manipulate our views.