Is this wise? As an outside observer I had the impression that Harris lost in part because of systematic, subtle and overt racism and sexism. All this applies to AOC, too. Do the Democrats want to lose? Don’t they have some sort of JFK look-alike, people actually want to vote? It’s not as if appearance wasn’t way more important in the US than things like the actual political agenda.
Kamala lost because she was too close to the administration that is blamed (rightly or wrongly, doesn’t really matter) for the cost of living crisis.
It also didn’t help that she was thoroughly uninspiring. The best part of her campaign was the actually refreshingly left wing (by american standards) walz.
It marked the third time that the Democrat party has run a soulless career establishment politician against trump. They only won the time before because Trumps fuck ups were immediately apparent and fresh in everyones memories.
Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.
As another outside observer I’d disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there’s racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like “you’re not part of the political elite” and “you say it how it is” and “you seem like you genuinely care about Americans”.
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as “Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead”.
Like everyone else said… Kamalacaust lost because she’s a genocidal prosecutor walking in the footsteps of another total failure. They’re just gross people.
The dems would rather lose than betray their genocidal capitalist masters.
Stop bringing up “genocide” as the reason, please. It’s not. If people cared about genocide, they would’ve voted against the “finish the job” Republicans.
Is this wise? As an outside observer I had the impression that Harris lost in part because of systematic, subtle and overt racism and sexism. All this applies to AOC, too. Do the Democrats want to lose? Don’t they have some sort of JFK look-alike, people actually want to vote? It’s not as if appearance wasn’t way more important in the US than things like the actual political agenda.
Kamala lost because she was too close to the administration that is blamed (rightly or wrongly, doesn’t really matter) for the cost of living crisis.
It also didn’t help that she was thoroughly uninspiring. The best part of her campaign was the actually refreshingly left wing (by american standards) walz.
It marked the third time that the Democrat party has run a soulless career establishment politician against trump. They only won the time before because Trumps fuck ups were immediately apparent and fresh in everyones memories.
Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.
I know a few old Dems who voted for trump this year because they didn’t think a woman could be president
As another outside observer I’d disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there’s racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like “you’re not part of the political elite” and “you say it how it is” and “you seem like you genuinely care about Americans”.
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as “Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead”.
Why are you writing Karmala? Her name is Kamala.
Whoops, spelling mistake, thanks for pointing that out.
No. Surprisingly it wasn’t the overwhelming racism and sexism of USA. Michelle Obama would have destroyed Trump. She probably would win in 2028 too.
Like everyone else said… Kamalacaust lost because she’s a genocidal prosecutor walking in the footsteps of another total failure. They’re just gross people.
The dems would rather lose than betray their genocidal capitalist masters.
Stop bringing up “genocide” as the reason, please. It’s not. If people cared about genocide, they would’ve voted against the “finish the job” Republicans.
She lost bcs she was a racist heartless tone-deaf ghoul