Democrats bet on appeals to neoconservatives — including war criminals like Dick Cheney — and touted harsh border policies, bolstering rather than challenging Republican anti-immigrant frameworks.
Kamala Harris may have relied on women to vote for abortion rights, but she promised little more than a potential return to the flawed and insufficient norm of Roe v. Wade, at best. Like President Joe Biden, she supported a genocide and failed to distinguish herself from extremist Zionists like Trump.
For Democrats, appealing to the right has been a disaster of realpolitik, especially in an electoral system that structurally favors Republicans anyway. But what’s worse, Democratic strategies have failed and harmed the most vulnerable communities both in the U.S. and those who suffer under the yoke of U.S.-backed wars.
There is an urgent need for social justice movement organizing, growing unions and union power, antagonism rather than acquiescence to existing power structures, and expansive networks of care and support. The most powerful social movements of the last decades did not primarily build on support from Democratic leadership under Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden. Nor did they collapse during Trump’s first tenure.
Not Tough Enough apparently, and more importantly, not advertised enough. There’s a post somewhere on here about exit polling data that showed that immigration was the second largest issue for voters and that it was more than five times more important than it was in 2020. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what actual numbers are it just matters what voters think they are. We can bemoan that all we want but it’s what elections are made on. Elections are about selling yourself and selling your vision. Certainly I can’t say that I found a coherent Vision being sold to me by democrats when it came to immigration.
For sure it was a major motivator, but also anybody motivated by it was an absolute moron.
Well I guess that’s the problem there, the the morons showed up while the Alternatives did not. So you have to ask yourself, who are the real morons?