I think a big reason why people were not excited to vote for Harris is because she really doesn’t have any unique policies other than a general handwave in the direction of Joe Biden.
I’m not saying she’s bad by any means, and she’s definitely a lot better than Trump, but elections in the US are won and lost almost entirely on turnout rather than the quality of the candidate’s proposed agenda. And people really just weren’t interested in waiting in line to vote for a candidate who promises only good vibes, while being bombarded with attack adverts reminding them that a dozen eggs now costs a dollar more than it did last year.
Harris’s platform was literally “we’ll keep doing the same things that haven’t been working for the bottom 85% for 30y” and people are shocked she didn’t win the election. This was a referendum on neoliberal business as usual and they lost, hard.
Will they learn from this or accept any responsibility or change their platform for the next race? Find out over the next couple of weeks as they scramble to find a scapegoat to blame instead of actually thinking about policies that would help the vast majority of the public.
This was a referendum on neoliberal business as usual and they lost, hard.
You would have thought people in this country would have learned that in 2016 when Trump ran against NAFTA and with a populist message that, yes, used immigrants as a scapegoat.
But the neoliberal elite of the party continue to show nothing but disdain for populism, evidenced by how they treated Bernie and choosing candidates who literally run on nothing “fundamentally” changing.
Yeah, this is exactly what I’m saying. You don’t win a fucking popularity contest by choosing to ignore 80% of voters or tell them that “we wouldn’t do anything differently” after 50y of wage stagnation during a housing crisis.
Trump had a whole book of detailed plans for what he wanted to do after he got into office. His entire agenda from day 1 to day infinity has been planned out by the Heritage Foundation. You may have heard of this project. It is supposed to take effect in 2025.
I don’t think they are good plans, and you probably don’t either, but they certainly were one of the plans of all time.
Harris has no clear agenda. Compare her to someone like Bernie Sanders who loudly proclaims his entire playbook on social media every morning. Sanders makes it clear about what he’d do if he was in change. The difference is pretty obvious.
Trump denied the plans so I don’t think that worked to his effect.
The messaging just isn’t getting through to the right people. Maybe there just wasn’t enough time to get it out.
But the messaging itself needs work. We see tax breaks for new homes buyers, new small business, tips… that still leaves everyone that’s not in these categories.
Trump roles in… finds out whatever local issue everyone is riled up about, blames it on the dems, game. Set. Match.
We should do the same, but with actual solutions, while blaming the right people (yea, even if those people happen to be corporations). Like inflation… where was the messaging about greedflation? How corporations were fleecing their pockets? It’s even got a catchy buzzword.
It’s not clear we will even get another genuine shot at this, but we need an iron tight strategy if there’s gonna be any hope.
I think a big reason why people were not excited to vote for Harris is because she really doesn’t have any unique policies other than a general handwave in the direction of Joe Biden.
I’m not saying she’s bad by any means, and she’s definitely a lot better than Trump, but elections in the US are won and lost almost entirely on turnout rather than the quality of the candidate’s proposed agenda. And people really just weren’t interested in waiting in line to vote for a candidate who promises only good vibes, while being bombarded with attack adverts reminding them that a dozen eggs now costs a dollar more than it did last year.
Harris’s platform was literally “we’ll keep doing the same things that haven’t been working for the bottom 85% for 30y” and people are shocked she didn’t win the election. This was a referendum on neoliberal business as usual and they lost, hard.
Will they learn from this or accept any responsibility or change their platform for the next race? Find out over the next couple of weeks as they scramble to find a scapegoat to blame instead of actually thinking about policies that would help the vast majority of the public.
You would have thought people in this country would have learned that in 2016 when Trump ran against NAFTA and with a populist message that, yes, used immigrants as a scapegoat.
But the neoliberal elite of the party continue to show nothing but disdain for populism, evidenced by how they treated Bernie and choosing candidates who literally run on nothing “fundamentally” changing.
Yeah, this is exactly what I’m saying. You don’t win a fucking popularity contest by choosing to ignore 80% of voters or tell them that “we wouldn’t do anything differently” after 50y of wage stagnation during a housing crisis.
Ignorance. The policies addressing housing alone was a huge amount of work fixing different parts of the problem from start to finish.
Trumps plan was a simple handwave at deregulation.
Trump had a whole book of detailed plans for what he wanted to do after he got into office. His entire agenda from day 1 to day infinity has been planned out by the Heritage Foundation. You may have heard of this project. It is supposed to take effect in 2025.
I don’t think they are good plans, and you probably don’t either, but they certainly were one of the plans of all time.
Harris has no clear agenda. Compare her to someone like Bernie Sanders who loudly proclaims his entire playbook on social media every morning. Sanders makes it clear about what he’d do if he was in change. The difference is pretty obvious.
Trump denied the plans so I don’t think that worked to his effect.
The messaging just isn’t getting through to the right people. Maybe there just wasn’t enough time to get it out.
But the messaging itself needs work. We see tax breaks for new homes buyers, new small business, tips… that still leaves everyone that’s not in these categories.
Trump roles in… finds out whatever local issue everyone is riled up about, blames it on the dems, game. Set. Match.
We should do the same, but with actual solutions, while blaming the right people (yea, even if those people happen to be corporations). Like inflation… where was the messaging about greedflation? How corporations were fleecing their pockets? It’s even got a catchy buzzword.
It’s not clear we will even get another genuine shot at this, but we need an iron tight strategy if there’s gonna be any hope.