Summary
After campaigning on promises to reduce costs for the working class, Donald Trump has largely gone silent on cost-of-living issues since his election.
In a recent interview, he admitted he could not restore grocery prices to 2019 levels without a recession.
While gas prices and groceries are already falling, Trump’s policies focus on government cuts and HB-1 visa expansions, which may harm his base.
Instead of addressing working-class concerns, he has turned to controversial ideas like buying Greenland or reclaiming the Panama Canal, drawing global criticism.
They opened the door wide open for Trump.to walk through. I blame them.
Running an 82 year old man who has noticeable cognitive decline and swapping candidates without a primary were very avoidable icebergs the Dems steered into.
Edit: the downvotes are interesting. It’s not a popular message, but he very obviously wasn’t suitable to run. He wasted all of our collective time to make a convincing argument.
Sure. That doesn’t change the fact that 77 million Americans voted for him. It doesn’t change the fact that the GOP ran him again, despite him being a twice impeached (now) convicted felon. It doesn’t change the fact that he had more big moneyed interests contributing to his campaign than ever before.
We can criticize bad strategy without misplacing blame. The dems ran a candidate that beat Trump with a wide margin last time. They are completely out of touch with their base, so they didn’t realize how much the circumstances had changed. Also, swapping candidates mid campaign, IMHO, was kind of brilliant. It completely threw Trumps team off. They had a whole strategy for Biden, spent millions on attack ads against him, then were forced to scramble up a new strategy with very little time. I enjoyed watching that. I also watched all of the debate’s and many of Harris’ speeches. I felt that she was a clearly better candidate. She was clear on her message/plans, relatable, competent, intelligent, relatively classy when speaking about her opponent, and she constantly talked about working class issues. The media’s portrayal of her ignoring working class issues, and that being why she lost, is the complete opposite of what I witnessed with my eyes and ears. All of that is to say, although I am certainly not some huge Harris fan, I felt she was competent/intelligent enough, and was far better than either of the other options.
The people who are to blame are the people who ran Trump, the people who voted for him, and the people who sat this one out because there just wasn’t enough info/evidence to sway them one way or the other (/s).
zomg! {clutches pearls}
Are you blaming…the voters? Well, my stars!
/staggers off to find a fainting couch and some smelling salts…
If he would have gracefully stepped down before the election cycle began and they ran someone who spoke to the issues of the people, I think we would have had a drastically different result. The candidate swap was necessary after the disastrous debate performance – but if we started with a stronger, more coherent, candidate we wouldn’t be here. If the Dems focused on delivering for the American people instead of turning Palestine into a smoldering parking lot costing over 22 billion dollars, we wouldn’t be here. If they made any attempt to fix the concerns of the people over healthcare and the growing oligarchy running the show, we wouldn’t be here.
They are bad at politics, messaging, and engaging what used to be their base. They offer no hope, just more of the same.
I want to see intelligent candidates out there who know how to deliver results. There are people like that out there, the Dems need to find and promote them. Nancy Pelosi just propped up a 74 year old cancer patient over AOC, so they continue to not learn any lessons and follow their existing playbook.
I agree with all of this. But, none of that makes Trump a better, or equally bad, option. He’s far worse on every issue you mentioned. Sometimes it’s necessary to look at where we are and act accordingly. We’re not living in a world were we have access to real progressive candidates of the likes I want to see. Our democracy has been on life support for the past 24 years, and was seriously ill for 20 years before that. We have more aggressive treatment options, that could work, and a sizeable portion of the country decided to pull the plug instead. Now we all have to deal with the fallout.
Left leaning people that abstained over Israel or working class issues, do you feel you made the right choice? Are those issues going in the right direction now that Trump is the incoming admin? Do any of you feel that teaching the DNC a lesson was worth risking minority American’s rights, increased wealth disparity, necessary funding for Ukraine’s defense, and our strategic relationships with many of our nation’s greatest allies?
I had a kamala yard sign, she was the better candidate. It’s just a shame she didn’t have the time or the effective messaging to convince the masses.
Yeah, I guess I just don’t buy that there was a failing in her messaging. I think many Americans bought into a very unwise narrative, or got comfortable through the Biden admin and checked out. For all of Biden’s faults, at least he was stable, predictable. I think people became complacent through that. They decided that who the sitting president is doesn’t make THAT much of a difference. Unfortunately, when we have an admin that brings us people like Lina Khan while the other brings us Ajit Pai (and all of the current right wing SC justices), it makes a very big difference.
You’re right. Dems also could have immediately begun prosecuting Trump for the insurrection and other crimes, but waited 2 years to begin to ensure no elites would actually be held accountable. This combined with Dems’ refusal to hold a primary election resulted in an (in no way whatsoever) stunning defeat.
Add in Biden policies like record oil and gas drilling while the planet burns, and full-throated genocide enablement for Israeli war criminals…why do people think any other outcome was possible? Are they so susceptible to the pathetic Dem gaslighting that “no, actually economy is doing great, and Biden is FDR 2.0”? Sad if true.
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