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.
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.
…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.”
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.”
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
