Tomorrow Donald Trump will take the oath of office again. By spurning economic populism and embracing Bush-era Republicans, Democrats helped pave the way for his second inauguration.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    … standing on their moral high ground because of whatever scruples they had about her.

    You’re blaming the voters but you’re not able to successfully articulate why they didn’t vote. You didn’t even try and dig into why people weren’t buying what Harris was selling and ultimately that’s the core of the problem.

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      23 hours ago

      I’ve actually read quite a lot of people’s objections to her, and I think enough of it boils down to a collection of petulant single-issue moral objections. If the people who do fit into that category had been adult enough to take the stick out of their ass, our real-life future would have been a lot better than it’s about to be.

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        23 hours ago

        Ultimately, calling voters “petulant” and that they haven’t “been adult enough to take the stick out of their ass” is a real problem for the Democrats. There’s a complete lack of self-reflection which means the same mistakes keep getting made over and over again because if they don’t win it’s not on them, their messaging, or their policies. It’s all the fault of those moronic, feckless voters.