Clyde_Style wrote:Pointgod wrote:I’m going to hold off on any pronouncements until the votes come in but this election shows that 67 million Americans are absolutely fine with letting the country burn as long as it pisses off the majority of the country. I don’t know how you come back from this.
And this should officially end the Democratic strategy of trying to turn Republican voters. There were **** Senators that ran ahead of Trump despite clinging to his nuts, enabling his criminal behavior and voting to AQUIT him of an obvious **** crime! The only lesson the Republican Party will learn from this is that next time they need to select a racist, facist, authoritarian prick who isn’t on twitter as much. Democrats need to focus on a turnout game and activating new voters. **** this turning Republicans bull.
Chuck **** Schumer needs to step down as minority leader. I’m not a fan of needlessly **** on Democrats, but he dropped the **** ball big time. He had so many shots at thing and he completely **** the bed. Biden might win but this was not a good result for Democrats. It took the combined force of historic voter turnout, the Republicans publicly speaking out against their own party, tons of money from Bloomberg to narrowly beat Trump. Democrats in the house absolutely under performed. DNC, DCCC, DNSC all need to be fired and cleaned out because they have no **** clue what they’re doing. I remember so many grassroots organizations saying that the DNC needs to invest in communities and put boots on the ground instead instead of just dropping in 2 months before elections. They need to heavily invest in African American and Latino outreach and figure out a strategy to actually reach rural voters or else forever lose the Senate.
This was 99% already baked in. Everything you and Jremi are saying is true, but that needs to start now for 2022, then 2024. The DNC and affiliations just don't know to compete. But neither did the Never Trumpers like the Lincoln Project. They all failed. Maybe, just maybe, if a real ground operation was launched as soon as Biden was clearly going to cinch the nomination, then possibly you could have grabbed enough votes to get a better result, but that ship sailed over half a year ago IMO.
I still think the major takeaway is how Americans are willing to roll with fascism. So there better be operatives who understand how to fight Nazism, because it is here and it is entrenched and it is not going away.
The Never Trumpers were always going to work on the margins, they would have little effect on the house seats if they helped cut down Trumps margins in the suburbs and rural areas then they served their purpose. They can **** off somewhere. The DNC should have been on the ground 4 years ago. Trust me when I tell you there are organizations on key swing states who are already doing the work who just need some money. I was willing to see where the strategy would lead but it seems they just blew record fundraising on consultants and ads instead of investing in outreach to latino and African American communities. For example, people are surprised that Trump did so well with latino voters in Florida but to their credit his campaign has been reaching out and courting them for the past 4 years. They invested in advertising, had boots on the ground and ran candidates that offered zero substance but were well known in their communities.
And your point is right, you can’t reason with Nazis so you have to depend on activating voters and new voters. Obama was the EXCEPTION that was able to turn Ohio, Iowa and Florida blue not the rule. This **** was literally carrying the whole party on his back. 2020 was even MORE PARTISAN after covid, 230000 dead, impeachment, tanking economy and the President of the United States being **** sued for RAPE.
