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 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.