pjwestin@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’
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2 days agoYou’re overestimating the power of foreign propaganda. Harris lost because she refused to break with Biden on Gaza, offered a middle-class economic policy instead of working-class economic populism, and spent the campaign pursuing moderate Republicans as her base abandoned her. Foreign influence campaigns certainly played a part, but they’re not magic; they didn’t force the Democrats to run an out of touch, centrist campaign, and they didn’t create the economic crises facing the working class. If the Democrats had run a campaign that credibly addressed the issues of their base, no amount of foreign propaganda would have kept them from winning.
And I’ll never stop feeling angry that he didn’t decide to step down after one term. The difference is that I’m going to live long enough to see the consequences of that decision.