Former Trump campaign chairman and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told his podcast viewers that Republicans should take Tuesday night’s losses to heart, saying: “The midterms start tonight, and the warning signs are flashing.” He observed that “Democrats just flipped two Georgia commissioners,” marking “their first statewide wins in 30 years.”
Far-right influencer Mike Cernovich (who spawned the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory) tweeted: “Ted Cruz and Mark Levin are walking Trump into impeachments and then prison. 2026 will be a blood bath.” MAGA podcaster Jack Posobiec likewise warned that “2026 will be worse if we don’t course-correct.”
The longest government shutdown in US history came from Trump and he still got voted back in because people didn’t want a South Asian woman as president. And now we have that shutdown record broken again.
The fact that he won the Latino, Muslim and Black vote and now they’re acting surprised by the mass deportations, ICE raids and tariffs he’s been imposing is peak “Leopards Ate My Face” material.
The democrats should run candidates that care about the working class if they want people to vote for them.
Clearly the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working.
First off I’d agree in the case of most elections since the 80s. When shit like Project 2025 is flashed and you dont vote against the fascist… yeah you’re fucking short sighted and have no moral high ground. The other option wouldn’t put brown people in torture camps in El Salvador and violate international law by bombing boats.
Harris is typical neoliberalism trash and the last serious contender for the presidency who gave a shit about people who work for a living was Bernie and then FDR. She was objectively the right choice to vote for if you have a soul at all.
Voters: “Please stop supporting genocide” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop deporting people without due process” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop bombing children” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please stop gaslighting us about the state of the economy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please say you’ll do something to stop healthcare from being the biggest cause of bankruptcy” Democratic leadership: “No”
Voters: “Please make the economy work for the people, rather than the rich” Democratic leadership: “No”
Democratic leadership: “It’s the voters fault when the Republicans win. There was nothing we could do!”
She was the objectively better candidate in 2024, but she was also objectively a trash candidate. Electing her would have meant continued acceptance of a political mindset and process that has reliably and consistently given us trash candidates for decades.
2024 was as good a time as any to give up on the DNC.
I’d agree with your first sentence 100%. I would love to see statistics on the moral non voters and how involved they were with getting GOOD candidates elected though. I’m sure we could guess how involved they were.
The way you phrased that, the answer is tautologic: statistically, 100% of them were “involved”.
Their involvement may not have extended much beyond a blanket rejection of everyone the DNC tried to shove down our throats, but they were certainly “involved”.
I would go just a little bit further and say that they were involved in the only way that actually matters.
See, you still don’t understand.
When the ‘fall in line’ strategy isn’t working, you don’t blame the people not falling in line for an establishment candidate. Instead, you should be blaming the people making it so all we have to choose from is ‘evil’ and ‘slightly-less-evil.’
If we could run good candidates that actually represent the working class instead of just candidates who aren’t as bad as the opposition, then this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.
You are doing your part to support the two-pronged strategy, and the working class continues to suffer because of it. Please do better. Please be smarter.
No, I understand the rationale. It’s just shit, infantile logic. I guarantee you I do more for getting leftists in than the moral high grounders did on average plus a SD or two. It’s just easier to say inaction isn’t an action and act like you’re not indirectly responsible for the shit you preached against and more.
Well, if you want to do more to get leftists elected, then focus your frustrations on the ones undermining working class agendas. It would do wonders for getting more people out to vote because they would actually feel as though the people they’re voting for have their interests at hand.
Getting angry at the people who don’t fall in line is a waste of energy.
That comment clearly demonstrates the problem. That is the attitude of the DNC and the Democratic leadership. Dismiss the electorate as too stupid to live, then wonder why we don’t support your terrible candidates.
*Black woman.
The vast majority didn’t want her because she was black, please don’t gloss over this with technicalities.
Obama was one of our most popular presidents. Yes, race played a part of it, but she lost because she was a terrible candidate, who ran a terrible campaign, on the coat-tails of a terrible president.
I haven’t seen much evidence that her race had all that much to do with it.
Complete outsider here; don’t Americans usually call people from Africa black? Isn’t one of Kamala’s parents from India? Like, I’ve never heard anyone refer to someone from China as “black” before, but I do have an Eastern-European friend who received some anti-Mexican sentiment when he visited the U.S.
She’s mixed race
Right from her wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
From an insider- What Americans call people has nothing to do with where they’re from and is simply based on looks. She looks more black than Indian, so she’s black. It’s as simple as the average American. I doubt the majority of maga even know her ethnicity at all beyond the color of her skin.
I think the point is that while certainly some Americans would not want someone of Indian descent as President, there are a lot more who would be upset by a black President.
Doesn’t help that she was a shit candidate, dawg.
Yeah, great justification for either giving up your right to vote or actively supporting a fascist lol
Most americans dont engage with politics on this level if they engage at all.
I voted for her, you fucking fool.
I can be critical of a primary candidate while doing what’s necessary to keep forward progress.
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It was wild seeing libs blame minorities in 2016, I didn’t think they were still doing that.
To this day I don’t understand how people let the libs get away with blaming the voters, rather than blaming the people with the money, the power, and the platform.
Something something white moderate.
Liberals, whether dem or republican, believe capitalism is good and just. So when something happens they don’t like, they must find someone who was doing capitalism wrong to explain it. This is where their underlying racism and xenophobia pour out.
*Genocidal woman
Dude, that’s not an accurate description of her and you know it.
On the genocide issue trump was far worse so idk what you want. If that was your excuse to not vote for her you are just lying at this point.
She wasn’t the best candidate by any means so you could try attacking numerous things wrong with her but she wasn’t responsible for what Israel did so why choose that?
Because she was very clear that she wanted to continue supporting Israel. She openly gave up voters to keep supporting a genocide. Remember the “I’m speaking” bit she did when people were trying to get her to stop supporting genocide?
Polling showed that was the biggest reason that she lost.
Ok but did you ever wonder how trump was going support Israel because I’m pretty sure he was a billion times more supportive of the genocide than she was. So if there are 2 candidates and one is worse on the genocide issue why do you feel the need to target the lesser evil instead of the greater evil? It makes no sense.
Anyone who really cared about the genocide would know there was a better chance that she would end it before trump would. If you wanted it to stop she would have been the better choice. Trump just gave Israel everything they asked for so is that better?
If you thought Kamala wasn’t paying enough attention to suffering in Palestine, you could have protested and lobbied her to pay more attention to this issue, while still voting for her as president, on the basis that Trump is even more pro-Israel and even less sympathetic to Palestinians.
People did that, and she blew them off.
Politicians can change their mind though if there is enough political pressure on them. I just think it’s weird logic to think “I don’t like what is happening in Gaza so I would rather see Trump elected to the White House than Kamala Harris”. Since Trump has a history of being strongly pro-Israel and he doesn’t seem to have a lot of sympathy for civilians who are suffering.
Not as genocidal as Trump though.