Zero, and that’s why the dems lost. Progressive policy is popular, republican policy from 2016 is not.
The dems are fucked until they do the things that get their base energized and going to the polls instead of triangulating themselves 2 inches to the left of the republican candidate to try to get the 2-5% of republicans who prefer diet-fascism to fascism.
Seats were lost because the presidential election is what brings people out to vote. ~15% of the electorate stayed home because they saw a choice between the 2016 republican and a dem with the 2016 republican platform. The down-ballot races suffered as well as a result.
See you’re doing it again, every time you shift the blame away from the people who decide the things that determine whether or not people vote, you convince the dems they can do it again.
This is exclusively the fault of the democrats. You can’t change the reality that running on policy your base doesn’t like, and then telling them “fuck you gonna do, help trump win?” decreases turnout.
The only reason they pushed Biden out was that they saw they had zero chance at victory if they didn’t change.
Listen, the dems have to seig heil in all their ads to entice white moderate centrist suburban women in 2028.
Now shut up and vote for 99% hitler, do you want Trump to win his third term?
How much closer did you get to progressivism this election?
Zero, and that’s why the dems lost. Progressive policy is popular, republican policy from 2016 is not.
The dems are fucked until they do the things that get their base energized and going to the polls instead of triangulating themselves 2 inches to the left of the republican candidate to try to get the 2-5% of republicans who prefer diet-fascism to fascism.
How many progressive candidates gained seats in this election?
Seats were lost because the presidential election is what brings people out to vote. ~15% of the electorate stayed home because they saw a choice between the 2016 republican and a dem with the 2016 republican platform. The down-ballot races suffered as well as a result.
I’ve heard that progressive policies are quite popular and get people to the polls.
Yes, it’s a shame the democrats ran on building a wall to keep immigrants out and tax cuts for small businesses.
Equally a shame that so many to the left of the Dems felt that their faces could use a little spiting and went straight to work on their noses.
Regardless of what wagon we arrived in, we’re all here now. And we’re quite short on options that will improve our circumstances.
See you’re doing it again, every time you shift the blame away from the people who decide the things that determine whether or not people vote, you convince the dems they can do it again.
This is exclusively the fault of the democrats. You can’t change the reality that running on policy your base doesn’t like, and then telling them “fuck you gonna do, help trump win?” decreases turnout.
The only reason they pushed Biden out was that they saw they had zero chance at victory if they didn’t change.