I think the first think is that this election hinged on about a 2-3% swing in the electorate.
People look at this result and say Democrats were rejected but that’s not really what happened. 3/100 People changed their minds between 2020 and 2024. Major changes in democratic policies aren’t required. Quite simply it’s in the selling of the candidate and the plans.
Stealing from another post in the other thread that was particularly astute. Trump offered simple solutions to simple problems and Harris offered complex solutions to complex problems. The first is more attractive the second is more real.
This is an ongoing failure of democrats and when they do distill it to something more simple they are terrible at it. Ie defund the police. Nenshis politics in full sentences is no longer desired in the key groups swinging to the right.
The Dems lost blue collar workers because they couldn’t accept that they are a little racist.
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