This is so depressingly true that it hurts. I'm still grateful that Harris ran, because she energized the Democratic base enough to deny Trump at least four Senate seats and scads of House seats. Biden, though I love him, would have tanked the party down-ballot.
Sadly, extremist movements are often like the Centralia mine fire—they keep going until they exhaust their fuel supplies and burn themselves out. I've never been convinced that Trump's defeat or even imprisonment would sufficiently quench MAGA. My only hope now is that the damage of his second maladministration can be contained.
Yearning for 2019 (and 2016, before Trump was in the White House) helped Joe Biden get elected in the first place. Yearning for 2019 prices helped him lose the White House (and the ravages of age kept him from defending his record). Recalling 2019, and the positions Kamala Harris took then, helped put Trump back in the White House.
The 2024 election wasn't just about prices, it was also disinformation and Democrat's weakness in dealing with it. They need a stronger media presence (especially online).
I'm hardly a defender of Democratic strategies (which obviously need improvement), but often, calling out disinformation—especially that which confirms voters' priors—accomplishes little except magnifying it. "Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was a catastrophe for the Democrats.
Another factor (which likely explains much of the strong Trumpward shift among young and Latino men -- neither of whom were traditional Trump constituencies) was the dream of getting rich quick through cryptocurrency speculation.
This is so depressingly true that it hurts. I'm still grateful that Harris ran, because she energized the Democratic base enough to deny Trump at least four Senate seats and scads of House seats. Biden, though I love him, would have tanked the party down-ballot.
Sadly, extremist movements are often like the Centralia mine fire—they keep going until they exhaust their fuel supplies and burn themselves out. I've never been convinced that Trump's defeat or even imprisonment would sufficiently quench MAGA. My only hope now is that the damage of his second maladministration can be contained.
Yearning for 2019 (and 2016, before Trump was in the White House) helped Joe Biden get elected in the first place. Yearning for 2019 prices helped him lose the White House (and the ravages of age kept him from defending his record). Recalling 2019, and the positions Kamala Harris took then, helped put Trump back in the White House.
None of which is right or fair, but here we are.
What’s silly is that they elected the guy in charge in 2020.
Trump's America in 2017-2019 wasn't exactly sunshine and rainbows. I remember the divisiveness, weirdness and corruption. Plus, the 2018 blue wave.
The 2024 election wasn't just about prices, it was also disinformation and Democrat's weakness in dealing with it. They need a stronger media presence (especially online).
I'm hardly a defender of Democratic strategies (which obviously need improvement), but often, calling out disinformation—especially that which confirms voters' priors—accomplishes little except magnifying it. "Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest."
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was a catastrophe for the Democrats.
Another factor (which likely explains much of the strong Trumpward shift among young and Latino men -- neither of whom were traditional Trump constituencies) was the dream of getting rich quick through cryptocurrency speculation.