Her policies were NOT clear. She had platitudes, but no DETAILS. Trump had project 2025, a full throated detailed plan for his presidency. She had better ideals, but can you honestly say she campaigned in DETAIL? Yes there was racism and sexism. Don't disagree. She didn't do enough to overcome that.
Craziest take I’ve read in a while. A convicted felon that commits mortgage fraud, assaults women and thinks “Black” means unqualified. And white folks still voted for him in droves. Yet you think SHE was the problem ?
I think we need to have better strategies to win in 2026/2028 that don't lead to defeat. That's all I'm saying. We need to get out the vote and show people the horrible things MAGA is doing and persuade them to vote better. Kamala lost, we have to learn what went wrong to have it work next time.
My home town in AL is 40% Black. It just elected its firts Black mayor and you gest mayor ever in a county and city that voted trump at 70%. How did he win. His words: grassroots efforts, voter education, new voter turnout. The strategy is not new. It lacked will by the party and folks like you 1/
Who talk instead of act. Who now have skin in the game where we, Black people always have. So dude… what are you doing. I hosted voter education sessions at my barbershop every Wednesday for 4 months last year and just started this year. 2/2
That's awesome. I'm happy for your city. Turnout is everything.
Thank you. Now get to work!
I’d agree if this wasn’t the SECOND time Trump was elected. The bottom line is that white America doesn’t want a woman (Hillary) or one of color (VP Harris) at the top of a ticket. We can make excuses all day long.
Trump lied during his campaign and said he wouldn't implement Project 2025. So Trump's policies were also not clear except to send criminal immigrants home. He lied about that also because he's sending non-criminal immigrants FOLLOWING the immigration process to countries they never lived in.
I'm not going to jump on your back, but I watched both closely during that race, and her policies were better than his by miles. Politics isn't a zero-sum game. She had to shed her image from 2020 to try to win in a more Republican leaning environment in 2024.
What the fuck did you expect her to do to overcome racism & sexism? Become a white man?
Kamala Harris had detailed policies to make things better for the American people. Trump just said he will bring prices down on day one & implement mass deportation without saying how he would do it. And prices have only gone up!
Nobody votes based on detailed policies otherwise they would’ve voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton & Kamala Harris instead of Trump. Ignorant voters, which are the majority of voters in this country, vote based on VIBES.
That Vibe is predicated on race and gender. I had a civil convo with a prominent white evangelical pastor. He acknowledged that trump was horrific as a person and supported policies that he did not align with. He still voted for him bc he doesnt believe women should be leading men
His favorite clout accounts never shared any of those details, so they never existed. Plus he would've had to actually listen to her voice to hear details
She had 107 days. Every damn thing we held dear hung in the balance. She warned about Project 2025. Trump said immigrants were eating cats and dogs. You're yammering about details. And now, people are being snatched off the streets. That's not Kamala Harris' fault. Voters fucked up.
I understand. I voted for her, I bought her merch, I got my friends and family to vote for her. How do you think we can win the next election by blaming the voters? I mean, I GET the frustration with them, but how do we make them switch sides? It's that, or figure out how to increase turnout. Both.
Let's get real. White voters put us here. White people are selfish & need learn to vote for harm reduction & the person closest to their values. There are no perfect candidates. That often means voting for a someone you don't like. Imperfect yes, but that's the reality Black voters have.... 1/
navigated since they got the vote. If white voters took voting as seriously as Black voters by voting for harm reduction: we. would. not. be. here. Maybe this horror show will teach us not to be so lazy, but given what I'm seeing in Hakeem Jeffries's mentions, they're screaming... 2/
to be saved from a government they thought they could live with in November. I'll leave you with this post, and ask you to look and think deeper. We have a dangerous disconnect among white people. We need to grow up. Now. Nobody is coming to save us. It's up to us. 3/3 bsky.app/profile/jayj...
*me checking the calendar to be sure it’s not April 1st* 1. Trump spent his campaign denying he ever even heard of Project 2025 & being so vague about details his stump “platform” often contradicted itself in the same speech. 2. VP Harris had detailed plans laid out on her website & explained… 1/2
…in her stump speeches & many interviews & media blitzes. 3. Why were non-⚪️ ppl able to hear her msg & turn out to vote? You should read about racism & ⚪️ supremacy bc you seem to think it’s just open KKK/Nazis when it’s something we’re indoctrinated w/& have to exorcise from our subconscious. 2/2
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Are you really of the opinion that American voters care about “details” ? 😂 l WISH!!!!
Lol fair
There was a tsunami of factors against her and against Democratic candidates - the struggle is btw those who want a pluralistic representative democracy and those who want blood and soil white ethnostate. With a bunch of clueless swing voters in the middle who vote based in vibes. 1/
With a media dedication to balance as opposed to truth it truly is bleak for anyone who cares about facts and details. Even when my preferred side wins, it looks like a fluke or short term reaction 2/end
But the media wasn't balanced at all. They held Biden and Harris to a MUCH higher standard and ignored all Trump's horribleness.
Kamala's team shouldn't have muzzled Walz. Mocking the Republicans was working, and they stopped for some reason. Newsom is picking it back up now finally.
Fundamentally, a country where things like that make a difference when the alternative is fascism, is a country that will fall into fascism no matter what. You may squeeze a victory once and but it is not sustainable. Every campaigns makes mistakes and people forget if they win…
Yeah, it's sad we're in this state, but the Supreme Court put us here.
And voters put us here by giving Rs the Senate in 2014. It always comes down to voters choice (until full blown dictatorship)
I think coddling voters is at least a contributing factor. But also, what we see here now is happening in UK and EU as well: rabid anti-immigration anti-other sentiment by people raised to feel entitled. It’s not this candidate or that strategy. It’s more fundamental, and alarmingly so
…if they lose people obsess about this or that “mistake” as if it made a difference. I think it’s like obsessing over that one an extra ice-cream eaten before a heart attack killed you. The clogging of the arteries is the fundamental reason, not the last ice-cream.
100%. I agree. Im not trying to say it was a fair contest. I'm just noting we lost it, and need to come up with ways to win despite the unfairness. I like what newsom is doing now by mocking them.
I'm enjoying Newsom's mocking. Also, I REALLY need laughter right now and he's providing that.
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What l mean by “balanced” is that they feel like they have to make candidates equally “bad” even when one is actually objectively better. Fake balance
Actually not end… PS. Check this thread …. It’s important IMO bsky.app/profile/dhne...
I understand what the author said, but my righteous indignation just has me at a standstill at this point
I know. I don’t have a consistent framework right now, as anyone reading my posts can tell. One thing l am firm on is that criticism of Dems is harmful. They’re the one boat out of MAGA Island. Poking holes in it harms us all. Any criticism should be private.
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I also think that’s important to grant voters the dignity of agency- and judge them for it. It seems to me everyone treats voters as children and not citizens responsible for their bad choices. And the same with Republicans.
I am accepting of those who say “l was wrong l will do better”, but not those who blame Dems or media or whatever for being “mislead”. When data is like this, it’s not about being misled. It’s either complicity or willful ignorance.
EXACTLY