• spirinolas@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Barely. The loss in 2016 and the tight race in 2020 wasn’t enough to sound the alarms. They still tried to win with Harris because she wasn’t Trump, instead of finding a worthy candidate.

      Sorry, man. I despised Harris but still preferred her to win, hands down. But Democrats have only themselves to blame. Trying to blame the voters who refused to vote in Harris just because she wasn’t Trump in dishonest and anti-democratic. It’s the exact posture that will keep enabling Democrats to come forward with these crappy candidates and (unsuccessfully) blackmailing the progressist voters to vote for them.

      Thus, the exact posture that allows Trump to win.

      Third party voters didn’t cost Harris the election. But if it did, you’d better your ass the Democrats would take the next election seriously. And they would win.

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        10 hours ago

        Lot of words to pretend he didn’t win 2020 by going “don’t you want stability? Aren’t you tired of the bullshit?” His entire campaign was “bring the adults back, get rid of Trump.”

        I never mentioned third party voters I don’t get why you’re grinding that axe