Who thinks this helps?
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
225 points (93.4% liked)
United States | News & Politics
7120 readers
503 users here now
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
They’re trying to reach conservatives that don’t support Trump.
why though? there is a large untapped market to the left of the Democrats, that they constantly ignore instead focusing on trying to just BE the republicans and take the fictional moderate.
In reality here everyone in that space has decided, and is not going to be swayed a large majority of them are with trump, They should move back to ATLEAST new deal politics but expand it to all not just white americans, that will both re-expand there voting window and allow for a diferentiated base
It’s a numbers game. There are more active voters in the middle that would consider voting for Harris than on the far left.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
They're alienating people who hate Reagan.
Are they? The campaign is not speaking in support of the Reagan administration. Harris is supported by the former administration over a corrupt and narcissistic megalomaniac.
Personally, I don’t see this as anything other than validation that Trump is that bad.
load more comments
(22 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
I saw someone theorizing that this helps Republicans down ballot. They give the Dems the presidency, but having more Republicans showing up to vote helps house/senate/whatever local elections swing Republican.
Very spicy take: This helps Donald Trump because it reinforces the idea that Donald Trump is not colluding with the uniparty establishment.
Liberal protection clause: I do not support Donald Trump.
That's actually an interesting idea. Since they're going to continue to control the Supreme Court anyway they can continue to implement their policy goals on the state level even if they don't have the Presidency.
I do.
I know people who voted for Trump because they've always voted Republican. Republican is their team, so they voted Republican. They assume Trump, as a Republican, will continue with standard Republican policies (which is generally true). They don't like him as a person but just don't pay too much attention to it.
If you mostly ignore Trump and just think of him as a generic Republican it makes sense. I was planning on voting for Biden before he dropped out because Democratic policy is generally what I'm voting for. Biden dropping out and Harris stepping in doesn't really change my voting plan. I'm still voting Democrat, I'm still voting Harris. Is Harris my favorite choice? No. Is the Democratic platform my perfect platform? No. But is it the best choice given the options? Absolutely. (And I don't say that as horribly negative thing, there are A LOT of positives from Harris/Democrats and I'm glad/excited to vote for her.)
BUT we know Trump isn't a generic Republican and people can't ignore EVERYTHING he's done. Jan 6 being a big one. If you're a Republican voter now you're stuck. You can't vote for Trump. But you want to vote Republican.
You're a generic Republican voter. You see Bush admins, Regan admins, Cheney all say they're voting for Harris. You voted for them previously. That gives you the opening to vote for Harris. That helps.
load more comments
(6 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Blue conservatives.
Even the bloodsucking ghouls prefer Harris, what a timeline
That's not a good thing
This is not the good timeline
Hey, the US Empire is weakening every day. This is looking to be the good timeline eventually.
load more comments
(14 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
In a letter...former Reagan aides and appointees...said they believed that, if alive today, Reagan would have supported Harris.
Reagan was a fascist ghoul. Cheney is a fascist ghoul.
If you think the trump admin was worse than the reagan or bush admins I'm sorry but you lost me. The dems clearly have no place for anti-war leftists theyd rather court bloodthirsty right wing monsters.
Their stratagy has always been scream about being the only game intown that is not farther right then them ... at some point that has to break down
People are imagining this like (if you'd forgive the analogy) Dragon Ball Z, where Vegeta is the big villain and we all need to rally around defeating him, but then an even bigger and more evil villain appears, Frieza, so now we team up with the still-evil Vegeta because he's more good than Frieza.
That's not what this is. This is Reaganites tipping their hand that they and the democrats are fundamentally on the same team, they are all part of the neoliberal establishment, and Trump, in his instability, is rocking the boat.
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.