• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    This is a good article calling out the true problems with the campaign.

    I keep seeing people blame voters, but the only group to blame is the Democratic Party. Parties exist to serve and represent voters, not the other way round.

    The Dems failed to address the genuine concerns of their traditional base - primarily the economy - and that left the race open for the Repulicans.

    The Democrat message on the economy seemed to basically be “things are not as bad as you think and we’ve already done what was needed”. Instead they focused on abortion and a threat to democracy as the main issues of the election.

    Yet for many lower income households, they rent and have been hit doubly hard by inflation. Home owners have been shielded from the rent portion of the cost of living crisis, and experienced less hardship. The dems did not seem to understand that and effectively left the field open for the republicans.

    Looking at the numbers, Trump hasn’t significantly grown the Republican vote or if so, it’s a relatively small increase. Yet the Democrat vote is way down on where it was in 2020.

    There are lots of other failures on the part of the Dems - allowing Biden to run essentially unchallenged, the leadership aggressively pushing back against concerns about his suitability, Biden waiting until very late to step back and Harris being coronated and having to use Bidens existing campaign. Harris was a decent enough candidate but she was given an impossible task thanks to an out of touch and poorly led party.

    The Dems lost this election, rather than Trump winning it.

    • FatCrab@lemmy.one
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      No, Trump won it. He got votes and those votes were from people who cast them. Yes, democratic party has problems, but the far bigger problem is that enough people voted for Trump when given other options.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        Trump won the election because he won the election is a tautological argument. It’s not false, but it elucidates nothing.

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        It’s wild to me how many excuses people are willing to make for the tens of millions of Americans that actively choose Trump.

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        About 16 million more people voted for Biden in 2020 than voted for Harris in 2024. The Democrats found a way to take 16 million people who cared enough to vote last time and get them not to vote this time.

        Shit, Trump lost 2 million voters from 2020, too. This should have been a layup.

    • SoManyChoices@lemmy.sdf.org
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      If you choose not to decide (or vote) you still have made a choice. Biden voters who refused to vote Harris chose to let the rest of the country decide for them. They will be worse off for it. Hopefully they learn from this but I doubt it.

      • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world
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        They weighed their experience under trump, and under Biden, and realized at worse they were the same. Trump objectively wasn’t as bad as your cult implied for a lot of Americans, and Biden was far worse than the Harris campaign acknowledged for a lot of Americans.

        Between these two facts lies the failure of democrats, Harris offered nothing different, at all, during her campaign, where as Trump at least acknowledged the problems people are facing and offered different.

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        15 days ago

        Lots of salty non-voters in this thread from the looks of it

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          Perhaps people are just tired of the Democratic party deflecting blame for all their failures.

          Dispose of First Past The Post voting, open the field for multiple political parties to compete to defeat the republicans. Democrats will put the country first right?

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            “The Democratic Party cannot fail, it can only be failed”

            -Smart people who are interested in winning