“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” -Chuck Schumer, July 2016
Trump won the primary but somehow there’s a limitless supply of moderate Republicans begging to be persuaded to vote for the Democrats… Marvelous things are happening in Chuck Schumer’s mind
“We gave your boss a tax cut, what more do you want?”.
She ran the perfect campaign!
Clearly racism and misogyny plays some role in it, but Harris/SomeGuyIForgot was short something like 6 million votes of Biden/Harris. This liberal talking point is one of the most frustrating because it is also exactly what trump says when shit is obviously not perfect.
Even 2012 Obama only lost ~4M votes compared to 2008 Obama. Dems are becoming more and more disillusioned as time goes on, which should be a good thing except in the Burgereich it means they get more fascist because one time a communist corrected them on twitter about some historical fact
Harris/SomeGuyIForgot
I wanted to say Tim Cain but I know that’s wrong, but like…it’s not really wrong
I think that was the Clinton pick IIRC and this one was someone Walz?
“Yo soy Tim Cain” lives free in my head it’s the only reason I remember him
Didn’t someone do a “Tim Cain in the membrane” parody song?
Haven’t heard his name since everyone immediately forgot his existence the nanosecond Trump won
Didn’t help that they were trying to shuffle him out even before the election to advertise Liz Cheney instead.
Future Democratic President Liz Cheney with Vice President…uh, one of W’s kids?
Walzed right out of our minds, some might say
It was more like 12 million lol. Also imo you’d expect all of the people who were too racist/misogynist to vote for Harris to flip to Trump (how many are going to go to Jill Stein?), and he only gained ~3 million, so that’s 9 million people who just stayed home.
Obviously this is cope about how a combination of support for genocide abroad and neoliberal policies at home likely cost them the election.
The initial returns were low, but Harris got 75 million on the final tally out of 152 million final votes vs 2020 when Biden got 81 million votes out of 155 million.
So there was a drop off but it’s not as a big as it was initially reported.
Good to know, thanks for the correction.
Burgereich
hmm maybe if we blame the working class some more they’ll come to their senses?
Holy mother of fuck do I hate the leadership of the democratic party.
it’s his turn on the stairs
Motherfucker, communication to your constituents is a big part of your fucking job. Even if I were to accept your bullshit blame game, whose fault is it that working families weren’t aware of what you were accomplishing? There are probably fewer than 10 Democrats in all of Congress who are good communicators, and the party tends to try to suppress them. But that’s not as big a problem as the party insisting on attempting to court conservatives. Instead of swinging right to achieve literally 0% more Republicans than in 2020, maybe try swinging left to court some of the 33.4% of voters who didn’t vote at all in 2020, which rose to 36.1% in 2024.
But what the fuck do I know. I’m just a regular working class American who’s pissed off at out of touch politicians letting capitalists fuck us all over, not some think tank guru or poli sci staffer. But if you try to run Liz Cheney as a Democrat in 2028, I’m leaving the country before the Vance-Desantis ticket wins the presidency.
It’s never the stagnant leadership that sits there governing for personal enrichment and their dumb grudges with each other at fault
If you changed their wardrobe and teleported them to something like pre-revolution France they’d fit right in with a bunch of nobles frittering around Versailles
Bidenomics cannot fail. It can only be failed.
You know how you don’t exactly get frustrated with Republicans because they never even pretended to be on your side? Like they’re obviously evil but you wouldn’t say you’re disappointed in them. I think that’s where I’m at with Democrats now.
Yep, now that frustration is reserved for “leftists”
“I’m not mad at the other team for scoring, I’m mad at the guy claiming to be on my team that keeps scoring on our goal and handing the other team the ball”
When we massacre middle easterners, we do that for you you stupid ungrateful pieces of shit
“Voters are too stupid to understand how good the status quo is for them,” says old guard servant of the oligarchy.
If this last election wasn’t a wake up call to quit moving the Overton window to the right, I don’t know what will be. The Democratic Party is downgrading itself to controlled opposition.
Downgrading?
NY democrats are genuinely the worst in the country
The Democrats’ worldview revolves entirely around the position that “the party cannot fail, only be failed”
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