- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.
But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.
“But this is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era. Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump.”
Remember when the vote was between an old, richbitch, white, fat, senile narcissist preying on girls and women and with no clue about business or government; and a younger, black woman with experience in government and a career built on prosecuting predators? That was a slam dunk, wasn’t it?
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There should have been a primary, Biden promised that he would be a one time president
Harris was a crap candidate.
She was fine compared to most others
She was shit compared to most others especially the 9 (iirc) other candidates she primaried against in 2020.
Honestly she was an establishment candidate. She was not very charismatic, but she understood law, procedure, protocol, international relationships. She would have been a mediocre president, but she was in fact the best candidate. How anyone could come to any other conclusion is mind boggling. Please turn off your Russian propaganda source.
She was a shit candidate that polled so poorly that she didn’t even get 1% of the vote in the two primaries she ran in in 2020. She had no charisma whatsoever and was known for celebrating her own career of locking up minorities for nonviolent drug crimes. It was up to her to motivate people to vote for her. Nobody owed her anything. She lost to Donald Fucking Trump of all people after he screwed things up once already. That’s all anyone needs to know about her. No Russian help needed.
And many young democrats didn’t vote for her because she wasn’t saying the right things about Palestinians. That worked out well for them.
I have yet to actually see any numbers giving this statement any sort of credibility.
Kamala got more votes than any democratic candidate has ever gotten, how does play into the whole “they didn’t vote”? The reality is though, that Trump was much better at getting people to vote, both by number, but also by location. Trump spent 4 years terrifying people into thinking if they didn’t vote for him, the democrats would murder babies everywhere and unleash millions of rapists upon the country. Obviously none of that was true, but enough people thought it was to terrify them into voting, because they’ve spent the past 18-50 years being brainwashed by fascists.
People voted, but fascist propaganda won.
To be fair, Trump promised to stop the wars, and he’s never lied before so they had to take him at his word to save Palestine. It was truly noble tbf.
This is the main reason she lost, besides Teump cheating
The democrat party? Yes, the Democrat party and their candidate really screwed-the-pooch on that one.
Tell us again why she had to support Israel in spite of losing voters?
to keep a coalition in congress? the one thing the dems and republicans agree on is Israel, she wasn’t going to alienate herself politically to appease a few nut jobs who were not going to be convinced otherwise. Try being an appeasable voter base and you may be appeased at some point.
A coalition with whom exactly? I suppose that since Trump also backed the genocide, these people are now in a coalition with him instead if we’re following this logic. That means both the Dems and Republicans are aligned with Trump and you don’t see the issue with this?
And yet thats exactly what she did with this and several other aspects of her campaign.
“Be happy with spoiled table scraps or you won’t receive any more spoiled table scraps” is all I hear from this. Since when is it the voter base that needs to appease their leaders in order for those leaders to win elections? That is insanity.
Elections require enthusiasm to win