Democratic strategists are still patting themselves on the back for a catastrophic defeat.

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
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    I can agree with that. People are so sick of things they want a disruptor. It’s hard to present yourself as that when you’re currently in office.

    Going to the comment I replied to, most people don’t really know or care enough about what’s going on in Palestine right now. Not that that shouldn’t, just that they don’t (but admittedly those who do could be critical in Michigan). Medicare for all is certainly a disruptive idea, but it’s only a piece of what makes a person a disruptor. One that I’d bet not everyone fully understands.

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      Only a vocal, very noisy minority care about Palestine. The rest pretend to care to avoid being “cancelled”. And the narrow voting marging showed that.

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      I think Palestine was a demotivating factor for a lot of people, Michigan was still a pretty incredible outlier, but Trump picked up Muslim and Arab American voters across the board. A deciding factor? No, but a factor.

      Now immigration… I’ve talked to people who’ve voted democratic by rote for their entire lives who voted for Trump over immigration. It was an extremely effective talking point that was ignored by Dems early on, then ceded to Republicans.