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A true left party would have lost as well, unfortunately.
Maybe so. Doesn't matter now, i guess.
It will be the same thing again in 4 more years. This wasn't even the first time they've done this.
Nah. This is what those sitting out for their "moral high-ground" don't get through their heads. The entire government, all three branches, is now captured by literal Hitler-appreciating fascists who have promised to end democracy. There probably won't be another opportunity for the dems to fuck up a presidential election.
That's what people said in 2016. Democrats keep running the same centrist bullshit and getting wrecked because of it. It matters so that the party can make actual changes.
Biden was a centrist and won. I really doubt it has to do with this. Look for the article written for the guardian by the pollster. It boiled down to:
Trump blew a pandemic response so badly that morgues were overflowing, so he was punished by voters accordingly. Meanwhile the Dems had a lackluster response to massive inflation so those same voters punished them accordingly. Had Biden gone after price gouging companies, housing speculators, ans pharmaceutical companies, he would have had massive success.
I wouldn’t call the inflation reduction act “lackluster”. Grocery prices stabilized and wages rose to meet them.
I agree that I’d like to see actions taken to fix housing prices — but I think a lot can be done from the local level. Cities and states should enact an “empty property tax” to encourage investors to rent or sell. And cities should be enforcing already existing regulations around AirBNBs. These are just hotels using a pseudonym to skirt existing zoning and tax laws.