• rezz@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Just bafflingly long chain of poor choices dating all the way back to RBG.

    Obama shoulda made her step down to replace.

    Obama (or whoever has the power) shoulda told Joe he was sticking to one term after the 2022 midterms, and REALLY prepared for 2024 in earnest. They run the best primary they’ve ever ran. They do a non traditional media strategy.

    But they did the opposite. Year after year. And then panic with a billion dollars and no path two months before an election that Trump has already been running for 2-4 years.

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      17 days ago

      It goes back farther, to Bill Clinton embracing Neo-Conservitive economic principals.
      That was the beginning of the end of the Democrats.

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        17 days ago

        Thank you. The most damage Dems ever did to most working class white folks in this country to prep them for despair, misery and authoritarianism was NAFTA. Couple that with not raising federal minimum wage when they had power. They want to keep billionaires happy though so no progressive candidates. Submarine Bernie. Annoint Hillary even though she was the most pro-war candidate in the primaries, she said she’d bomb Iran! This was after we’d barely finished the illegal disaster of fraudulent WMDs in Iraq and had begun slimming out of Afghanistan.

        The fact they lost minorities like Hispanics to vote for them when Trump is pitching hate and deportation…the measure of failure is impossible to put into words.