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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Fuckin A right, buddy. The Democrats spent 90% of their campaign funds spreading a message of "we're not trump" when trump is obviously very popular. I can't even articulate how stupid that is.
He is very popular among republicans, nationally he never broke 45% favorability, and is usually <40%.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/
It's dumb because it's trying to win a popularity contest instead of running on how you'll immediately improve people's conditions.
Which means that by making "we're not him" the primary campaign message, you're immediately alienating everyone who may like him, even if they were thinking about voting against him. Georgia is a pretty good example of what that campaign message resulted in. There are enough Republicans to win elections and enough undecided to swing elections. Alienating 45% of the constituency is a ridiculous strategy.
People who like Trump vote Trump, and are going to vote republican anyway.
So adopting republican policies didn't get them the wins, are you suggesting the democrats would have won if they adopted republican policy AND pretended to respect Trump?
I think their point is that the campaign should've focused on reasons to vote for them, not just against Trump. Then maybe swing voters could've been swayed.
I think we need to reform the Democrat party or wait for the collapse of the US so a progressive change can happen.
Reforming the democrat party isn't easy.
The DSA managed to win control of the Nevada branch. Before the handover of power, the outgoing dems spent the entire treasury and ran up a debt with their consultant buddies, and essentially burned any infrastructure could on the way out.
Sounds familiar