The left not giving Biden credit for things that they demanded he do is less bothersome now compared to the sobering reality that the actual voting public simply didn’t like it at all. They don’t like a great economy built with new deal liberalism. They don’t like ending wars.
The left wasn’t showing up in polls because there simply aren’t that many of them, not because polls were wrong. The Squad seems like a total electoral aberration now.
Had leftist mouthpieces been gung ho for Joe Biden and talking about how much they loved him for canceling student loans and ending wars and all that it probably amounts to half a percent in Wisconsin at best
People think I’m some closet Republican who just wants the left to be defeated. I’m not. I have my theories about why they would think that, but leaving that aside I had really hoped they were right, that new deal liberal policy would be politically successful. I believed it too.
They were all excited about Kamala, they demanded Tim Walz and got him. Did she give them everything they wanted, no. But electorally they seem to be a rounding error. And I hate it, I hate that we have a right wing country now.
The Anna Khachiyans of the world were fascists the whole time, but others I think had the view that constant criticism is the only way to “support” Dems. The problem is that the overarching theories we shared were wrong. Helping poor people and unions didn’t work.
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