Somebody's living in a mirrored funhouse.
(T)he ritual knives are also out for Biden, who some Democrats,including Harris campaign staffers, are eager to offer up as a sacrifice for the loss. “Biden will hold a lot of blame for it,” a senior unnamed Harris campaign official told CNN. “And frankly, he should.” This is shameful asscovering. Harris ran the worst, most uninspired Democratic presidential campaign since Mondale, but Fritz was more likable and actually tried to offer a slate of policies to counter Reaganism.
What about all that disgusting sexism and misogyny?
Noted diversity expert Joe Scarborough: “Democrats need to be mature and Democrats need to be honest. And they need to say yes, there is misogyny. But it’s not just misogyny from white men! It’s misogyny from Hispanic men! It’s misogyny from Black men who do not want a woman leading them. There might be race issues with Hispanics. They don’t want a Black woman as president of the United States. The Democratic Party likes to Balkanize people into groups and say, oh, white people don’t like women and Blacks. A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with Black candidates! They don’t like each other.”
And then there's those revolting transgenders.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY, re-elected) says Democrats “have to stop pandering to the far left ...I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” I don’t want to discriminate against anyone but them, them, uh, pro-noun people! Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA, re-elected) also blamed Democratic support for trans rights for their losses: “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” I wonder if Moulton can contemplate his two little girls getting burned to death in a tent by a US-made bomb?
Moulton's campaign manager resigned on Friday, joining Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa in the unemployment line.
Here is a particularly important excerpt from my recent interview with the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. 👀
— Lauren McGaughy (@lmcgaughy) November 7, 2024
You can read the transcript here: https://t.co/tGkoIv4pO0 #txlege #LGBTQ #LGBTQ #transgender #trans pic.twitter.com/ogRY6do0e1
If you’re looking for one anecdote that explains why Harris lost the election, this one is hard to top: According to a piece by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, Harris’ early attempts at voicing a populist economic message, timid though it was, attacking corporate greed was quickly muted by one of her top economic advisors, her brother-in-law and chief legal officer Tony West, who told her that if she wanted to curry favor with his network of CEOs she’d have to lay off Big Business. So figures like UAW president Shawn Fain were replaced on the campaign trail with the likes of Mark Cuban.
In October, Harris appeared more times with Cuban than Fain and was escorted by Liz Cheney more often than anyone else.
That's not anybody's defintion of a 'flawless campaign' but that's what I keep seeing over and over again. Does anybody who voted for Kamala feel propagandized yet?
For Texas Democrats, A Lost Decade
The losing streak goes back a lot farther than that (1996); for yours truly it began in 2002 and the founding of this blog, but whatever.
There is a room with three doors. Each bears a label: “Latino Vote”, “Purpling Suburbs”, and “Big City Turnout”. This November, Texas Democrats opened these three doors, and behind all they discovered a Cerberus from Greek mythology with the heads of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Greg Abbott. Then the monster ate them.
That pretty much sums it up, so feel free to stop reading now. But if you insist, I’ll elaborate.
