The cause of Kamala Harris’s disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.
In terms of messaging reality doesn’t matter at all. Just begin asserting it was due to being too right wing, including doing a genocide.
The “why” of losing an election isn’t entirely knowable anyways. Most people didn’t vote at all. Every candidate that loses mostly loses because the majority of people see no value in it. The consistency of this should mean most reflection be about the illegitimacy of American “democracy”, but that is rarely the focus. Instead, all of the air in the room gets taken up by cynical party “strategists” trying to normslize even farther right views to placate donors and get their next gig on the next campaign, now defined as, “we are woke but are against trans people and latinos”.
The “it’s because they’re right wing genociders” line is more correct than 90% of what anyine will otherwise hear. It is also in line with why there are so many non-voters. What is the meaning of being politically “engaged” in electoralism when you don’t see a material benefit to it, can’t really personally do anything about it except check a box for one of two Hitlers, and see correct popular will on important topics routinely ignored despite how the party suckups tell you it works?
Smoosh that stuff together and take up more space!
In terms of messaging reality doesn’t matter at all. Just begin asserting it was due to being too right wing, including doing a genocide.
The “why” of losing an election isn’t entirely knowable anyways. Most people didn’t vote at all. Every candidate that loses mostly loses because the majority of people see no value in it. The consistency of this should mean most reflection be about the illegitimacy of American “democracy”, but that is rarely the focus. Instead, all of the air in the room gets taken up by cynical party “strategists” trying to normslize even farther right views to placate donors and get their next gig on the next campaign, now defined as, “we are woke but are against trans people and latinos”.
The “it’s because they’re right wing genociders” line is more correct than 90% of what anyine will otherwise hear. It is also in line with why there are so many non-voters. What is the meaning of being politically “engaged” in electoralism when you don’t see a material benefit to it, can’t really personally do anything about it except check a box for one of two Hitlers, and see correct popular will on important topics routinely ignored despite how the party suckups tell you it works?
Smoosh that stuff together and take up more space!