Vincent Oriedo, a biotechnology scientist, had just such a question. What lessons have been learned, he asked, from Harris’s defeat in this vital swing county in a crucial battleground state that voted for Joe Biden four years ago, and how are the Democrats applying them?
“They did not answer the question,” he said.
“It tells me that they haven’t learned the lessons and they have their inner state of denial. I’ve been paying careful attention to the influencers within the Democratic party. Their discussions have centred around, ‘If only we messaged better, if only we had a better candidate, if only we did all these superficial things.’ There is really a lack of understanding that they are losing their base, losing constituencies they are taking for granted.”
“We have set ourselves up for generational loss because we keep promoting from within leaders that that do not criticise the moneyed interests. They refuse to take a hard look at what Americans actually believe and meet those needs.”
Dems will keep losing until they figure out which demographics they can’t afford to betray.
They thought LGBT and women would buy the last election and betrayed Unions, Nortenios, and Muslims. Like it wouldn’t have a consequence, then they lost the southwest (Nortenio) and midwest (Union and Muslim).
It’s not a zero sum game, you can court LGBT and other demographics as well at the same time.
Yep, like Trump does it. Just change your message depending on the exact crowd you’re talking to. It just requires a level of cynicism that the Democrats (and civilized people in general) seem to find distasteful.
I think they’ll keep backing their corporate funders until the people bail on them and all move to a different political organization. Someday.