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OTOH, been seeing lots of posts brought to you by the "democrats don't need to change, it's the voters who are wrong" gang.
I get your point, but absolutely 100% unironically it is the voters who are wrong.
Trump lead an insurrection, is a confirmed rapist, convicted felon, twice impeached, wear dampers because he's incontinencent, openly scammed his voters out of their money multiple times and has vowed to be a dictator.
A sloppy dog shit should have won against him.
Which is why I maintain that it's the DNC's fault. Trying to win by asking voters to vote against someone is a dog shit strategy with a dog shit track record. In fact, in a lot of regards, Kamala's campaign was run pretty similarly to Hillary's. For me, the chief similarity is that they tried to rely on fear and shaming and celebrity appearances (by the second half of the campaign) instead of offering an impactful policy slate. To boot, I seem to recall that a lot of team Hillary ended up running Kamala's campaign, so I guess it's not too shocking that they muzzled a lot of her left leaning ideals and basically ran Hillary pt II. One would have hoped that they would have learned anything from '16 besides voter blaming, though. I'd like to point out that Kamala gained the most ground in the first half of her campaign when it was about excitement, when people were hopeful that she'd have some progressive policies and before it was known that her policy plank was the basic centrist corporate democrat plank.
It also didn't help that they pretended and insisted Joe was fine all through the primary, so we didn't get one, insisted he was fine and we just didn't have any choice but to vote blue after Joe blew his legs off and bled all over the debate stage for 90 minutes on national TV, and only started leaning on him once the really disastrous poll numbers started rolling in.
Exactly, supposedly, it is the voter's fault for not taking Trump seriously, even though the DNC absolutely refuses to.