It is NOT her fault for not being a perfect candidate or for not running a perfect campaign. Her qualifications were clear. Her message of unity and inclusivity was clear. She inspired more excitement than any Dem candidate in years and broke records in her campaign fundraising in the very short time she had to campaign as a late entrant.

She shouldn’t have needed to be a perfect candidate to beat an authoritarian, untrustworthy, unethical, unhinged, and convicted felon candidate.

People chose hate and fear instead. Blame the MAGA cult voters, blame those who sat home and didn’t vote, blame non-MAGA voters who still just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a woman of color because of their own biased discomfort.

"Her message of unity and inclusivity was clear" yep I'm sure the teens digging their siblings out of rubble and mothers holding their children with their insides spilling out heard the message loud and clear.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

She shouldn’t have needed to be a perfect candidate to beat an authoritarian, untrustworthy, unethical, unhinged, and convicted felon candidate.

She wasn't. She was a horrible person, with a horrible record and a horrible immediately recent legacy.
Even if they chose ThePerfectCandidate, with immaculate record: if said candidate defended the previous administration and campaigned on not changing anything except pivoting to the right even more, doubling down on it over and over, not even willing to lie and tell the voters what they would like to hear; they would have eaten this same amount of shit.
Are they in some kind of denial that they legitimately lost?

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes they are. A number of them have been hanging on to the conspiracy that Elon musk rigged it in trumps favor.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

I lost against a popular figure, it must be the nazi-southafrican-russians!

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago

broke records in her campaign fundraising

That’s like losing the World Series but then bragging you had a bigger payroll than the team that won it.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Inclusivity, as long as you aren't trans or Palestinian

[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago

mealy-mouthed coward. glad she lost

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 30 points 6 days ago

they have their work cut out for them in reframing the loss 2024 as a reason to continue/expand every proxy war and offer no material support to the working class.

it seems the tactic is to frame the trump presidency as collective punishment for every demographic of the typical coalition behind democrats failing to eagerly, enthusiastically abandon any sympathy for the victims of american empire.

that is the calculus at work here: either turn a blind eye and let them die in brutal ultraviolence or the administrative state will be dismantled, the austerity will kick into high gear, the treats will cease to flow, and the professional managerial class will, similar to the less secure working class, be made to fight over smaller crumbs.

so long as they keep the narrative under control and the left away from platforms, the heightened class tensions will struggle to cohere around the working class and instead feed increasing policies and projects of barbarism like we are seeing with the El Salvador deportstions.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 26 points 6 days ago

Not trying to excuse genocide with feminist messaging. Thats why intersectionally needs to be a component of feminist rhetoric.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 55 points 6 days ago (3 children)

She capitulated to the right and the dem base didn’t hold the line, which is up for debate who is at fault I guess. Ultimately she and the DNC didn’t offer a likable and enticing enough alternative to get people to vote. And they’ll never learn the lesson they need to, they’ll just keep pushing right.

Second to the top comment.

Even Liberals are beginning to recognize patterns and connect dots.

We are truly living in the end times.

[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

She offered nothing, stands for nothing and takes responsibility for nothing. It's the most pure form of neoliberalism that everyone hates.

Oh, spare me the sanctimony from the avatar of a party that spent two years bombing Gaza into rubble. You “knew this would happen?” You and Joe spent four years fucking setting it up. You called the protesters terrorists and and Russian bots. You expanded police and military budgets. You allowed Garland to dillydally because of “bipartisanship” or whatever. This is your mess as much as it is Trump’s, own it.

Honestly, Harris can go ahead and shut the fuck up. Her genocidal ass is why we're in this position. She should not have pivoted to the right and she should not have been a smug Zionist POS. I don't ever wanna hear from her ever again.

nicholson-yes

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 28 points 6 days ago

They did the same thing with hillary. Dont let them fool you.

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

This is a pretty sure sign they need to pull an Obama. They were in similar states of disillusionment though not as bad after Clinton did all he did and then the Bush years. So they'll probably push these people aside by 2028, push in AOC type or someone and build them up to Obama status, hope, change, blah, blah blah and that'll get a sad amount of these people back on board for their election and through their first term at least after which the Dems just push the "Republicans are obstructing us waaaagh" angle again.