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.
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.
Trump got a little over 2 million more votes than Harris. I know the popular vote doesn’t determine the winner, but he won most swing states by fewer than 200k votes. He won because 10 million Democrats across the country, who voted for Biden in 2020, decided not to vote for Harris in 2024. She would have won if even half of them had understood that showing up was more important than standing on their moral high ground because of whatever scruples they had about her. Rationalize it all you want, but that was the problem. Millions of Democratic voters didn’t show the fuck up. And now here we are.
Accepting a lesser evil is ultimately a logical and moral flaw. If that is why they stayed home, they are ultimately correct, which is why they’ve surely all joined a series of radical leftist militias to enact revolutionary change on our broken system.
Right? Because that’s the solution if you think the system is fundamentally broken and there are two objective evils instead of just not voting.
Where my radical militia homies at?
Okay Sheldon.
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.
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.
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.
Only if you ignore the 75 million who did the right thing.
Did they win?
No, and sometimes that happens. Ultimately nobody won this one.
Pretty sure Trump won it.
Will you be doubling down on blaming the voters next time, assuming there is a next time?
Read this slowly: I am not blaming “the voters”, just THE FEW who fucked it up by not voting. I’m done here.