Summary
This victory makes Trump the first U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland and the first with a criminal conviction to hold office.
Democrats were shocked by the loss, particularly as exit polls revealed significant shifts among key demographics: Latino men favored Trump by 10 points, and more voters identified as independents or unaffiliated.
The economy was the top priority for Trump supporters, while Harris voters emphasized democracy and abortion rights.
The election also showed increased dissatisfaction with the country’s direction, as 72% of voters expressed anger or frustration.
The answer was you spent the last 3 months fucking your chances by chasing republican votes instead of rallying your own base. Its not rocket science. That shit was not inspiring.
Not only that, it was clear Trump was gaining voters because he said, “yeah, shit’s fucked, I’ll change it” and the Dems kept insisting “it’s really not that bad”. To people who have it hard, one party telling you that you’re just wrong and nothing will change, and the other saying they’ll change things for the better is a pretty obvious choice. Even if they’re lying about making it better, it’s already bad, and your other option is the same bad, why not give it a try?
Seriously, it was easy to see this election was going to whoever was promising extreme changes. The Democrats once again lost an easy victory because… Well I’m gonna be real Idfk. How the fuck you not have this in the bag?
“I’ll make homes affordable again by banning investment housing and corporate ownership”
“I’ll end the wars in Israel, and I’ll help Ukraine knock our oldest enemy for the cheap, saving American lives.”
“And I’ll fucking invigorate the middle class by tying minimum wage to inflation, guaranteeing you won’t fall behind.”
Its that easy. Say that shit, and when asked what you’d do differently than your predecessor, always say “a lot”. It gives you an opportunity to attack easy problems. I’ve lost all of my mind at this. I have no idea how the Democrats do this shit every fucking time.
I have no idea how the Democrats do this shit every fucking time.
Oh it’s simple. They’re paid by billionaires not to.
The Democratic party hasn’t been like that for 30+ years, at least the 90s. They’re a fiscally conservative party, and socially liberal. The only “liberal” part of the party is on issues that affect people like LGBTQ support or abortion, not anything dealing with the country or economy. The US hasn’t had an actual liberal party for decades, as soon as they started accepting billions in donor funds.
Fuck it, let’s start one right now and be so loud these next four years Trump sends us to one of his camps he’ll be opening soon. Anything, my mind is screaming and I’m not doing this again. I want a real fucking Left over here that actually cares and I want Citizens United to eat fucking dirt. This is much too exhausting and maddening to see year after year as shit continues to get worse and the rich get richer. I half hope the Earth collapses within the next five years just so these denier fucks can feel her wrath. But obv thats not a good line of thought.
I’m stating to see the perspective of Ye Wenjie in 3 Body Problem when she effectively tells the aliens to come destroy humanity, because we’ve fucked it up.
Same. I’m so distraught that I am considering industrial sabotage just to potentially buy the future a few more minutes. Or maybe just to feel like for once I have some control over what happens in my life instead of some dickhead with way too much money that I’ve never met.
Exactly this. Meanwhile food prices are high, homes and rents are unaffordable, and healthcare sucks, and tuition is through the roof. Biden sending billions to fund a genocide while all of this shit was happening at home was the demotivation people needed to stay home.
Did you choose not to vote Harris? Because I still voted for Harris
I gritted my teeth and voted for her but as soon as she started touting the Rubes endorsing her I knew it was over. How fucking hard can it be to just be progressive? Its that fucking simple.
Progressive doesn’t get you anywhere in America
How would you know, we haven’t had a viable progressive party in decades. We’ve only had conservative and diet-conservative. Turns out that’s not a winning move. I don’t even know how we go about fixing the country at this point, but a top to bottom overhaul of the DNC couldn’t possibly hurt.
That’s exactly my point. Hell Oregon has a progressive party and they can’t win local elections in supposedly a progressive state.
It sure as hell looks like going the other direction worked /s
Because the country has moved further right than the 90s/early 2000s Republicans
It verifiably hasn’t. Votes for Trump have remained constant for the last 2 elections. He is not gaining supporters, the Democrats are losing supporters.
…so whoever didn’t vote Haris effectively voted trump… we’ve been saying it along that all of that moaning about Dems would lead to Rep win. here it is on display
There’s definitely nothing right of Democrats and left of Trump lol
Funny, because it sure got Obama fucking elected. Even though the DNC didn’t support him in '08 and would have preferred the nomination going to Hillary. Even though even he is pretty milquetoast as far as progressives go, his campaign was more successful than anything else the Dems have done in a decade.
A black man offered change and universal healthcare and the U.S. gave him 8 years.
Obama was not and is not a progressive
…in Canada?
…and as usual they will blame the voters.
“Did I fail to excite my base and fail to make them think I had their interests in mind?”
“No, it’s my base who is wrong.”
But seriously, fuck voters who need to be excited. You think I adore Harris? Fuck no. But I know how an election works, like every adult American ought to by now, and the immediate alternative was worse.
Some people genuinely struggle with ‘do you want worse, or better?’ Like they cannot comprehend it, unless ‘better’ is exactly what they personally want. ‘If you don’t pay this bill, we’ll repossess your car.’ Yeah but I want this money, so I’ll just ignore that. Hey wait my car!
You’re not wrong, but here is the thing the people who didn’t vote don’t care.
The reality is most voters in the US just don’t care. So we either find a way to get them to care or we keep losing.
We can be pragmatic about motivating assholes, without excusing them for being assholes who require motivation.
You don’t even have to guess, it started immediately. As soon as the results were called, the Democrat line has been “Harris ran an immaculate campaign with no problems, everyone who didn’t vote for her is a Nazi.”
‘He’s a Nazi who said he’d do Nazi shit, holy shit please vote to stop an actual goddamn Nazi’ has been an ongoing message for about… six years? Maybe nine? It didn’t suddenly start last night.
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The answer is that doing the same dogshit reach across the isle campaigning while supporting shitty US allies like Israel is a losing strategy.
They won’t learn though.
Biden stayed in the race way too long and hindered the fuck out of kamalas campaign attempts. She had what, 6 months? Pffft. I mean that and a million other reasons such as lack of support from others dems.
We shot ourselves in the foot on this one. Now we gotta sit back and take it
Biden should’ve never run again in the first place. He should have kept to his pledge of being a “one term president” and gracefully made way for the DNC to hold an open primary where the voters could’ve expressed there preference for an actual message, rather than being force-fed yet another campaign of “What are you going to do? Vote for Trump?”
It’s no surprise that Harris, being an ex-cop presecutor, that led the way prosecuting people for cannabis, who supports Israel’s “defence”/genocide was unable to get left leaning people to come out and vote? This outcome was easily predicted months ago
