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They were doing so well with the weird thing and then they brought on advisers from the UK Labour party lol
The Labour Party which had the brilliant election strategy of just having Tory policies with a bit more austerity so that the media would finally let the actual Tories collapse and rebuild.
You can note that the dems immediately started hugging bush era republicans and positioning themselves as the "true" republican party, probably hoping for the same thing to happen in the US.
The Labour Party that won 33% of an election that had an almost record-low turnout. lmao.
Yeah, the big difference wasn't people voting more for Labour, but that there was a splinter party and the press was less than completely glowing towards the tories. Also that SNP decided to spontaneously combust.
More people voted for Labour in 2019, an election that I've been told was the worst election ever by very serious Blairites. And even with the lower turnout they only gained 1.5% of the popular vote. They are an exceptionally weak majority party and have already pissed away all the good will they could have had pushing any good policy.
We can only ever expect the managerial class to double-down on mediocrity.
The british accent has the ability to ensnare the american mind
It also played on the innate desire that every democrat has for republicans and bipartisanship. Republicans campaign on getting their (terrible) positions pushed, democrats campaign on their ability to work with the republicans.
The labour party, that lost 3 million votes since the last election cycle and only won because the tories fucked up that badly.