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Well that’s a shame. Can’t say I’m surprised though. Appealing to old-school conservatives, many of whom are tactical enough to vote Trump to get what they want signed into law, or racist enough to not elect even their most favourable candidate in the form of a person of colour; was such a stupid strategy. To think, if Kamala had pushed more progressive, she would have almost certainly won. Shame.
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I honestly believe that Kamala performed as best she could, I don't think there is any magic sequence of words she could have said to materially change the outcome *especially* in the last weeks. Maybe if this was months away and she came off as a completely different person from the start, who knows.
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I think he campaign team’s strategy, spending weeks ignoring progressive questions while shaking hands with some of the most hated people in politics (Cheney, Clinton) hurt her in predictable ways. I think the way that during the debate and several interviews she conceded to right wing framing that migrants are committing violent crime (not even true to any meaningful degree compared to citizens) hurt her with democratic voters. And by never once saying anything concrete about the validity of Palestinian existence while constantly repeating the same three or four lies about October 7th, and then ignoring the question of whether America will respect international law lost the left, muslims, young people, and the antiwar community. I don’t think she did anything well, personally.
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She did bring up a Palestine/Gaza commitment at the very last moment, but it didn't matter. I don't think you're wrong but I'm honestly unconvinced that any of that mattered in the end. That said, I'm not sure what did matter. I'm questioning a lot right now.
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Fair. I can’t say with certainty what motivated any individual voters. But what I can say is this appears to be a rather sweeping victory which means whatever she did or didn’t do, didn’t work.
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My general feeling right now is that it's clear that we (and more specifically The Media informing the democratic party voters) have been focusing on the wrong things. My fear is that we will continue to focus on the wrong things. I'd love to see a real post-mortem on what we learned and what we should have done differently, what actually mattered. Blasting imagery of empty Trump rallies clearly did not matter.
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Not sure who has ever thought that this weird fetishization of poor turnouts at Trump events had any effect other than irritating Trump mildly. The media in the US is an abject failure, spending all its time talking about irrelevant issues and scaremongering while abdicating their duty to inform voters of things like global conflicts, infringements of constitutional rights, corruption scandals. Like why tf was Josh Shapiro making the rounds on media last week stumping for Harris. Shapiro is toxic with that disturbing Greenberg case being fuel for conspiracy that infects everyone around him. The Democratic Party has lost its grip. They advocate popular policies but then they cozy up to sex offenders, war mongers, and Wall Street, losing all credibility. My assumption as an outsider has always been that they (all US politicians) know they aren’t consistent and don’t care. They are career politicians and as long as the checks come in and the cameras are always on them, money, fame, and power is enough
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