General Discussion

Just four examples:

1. The View interview where VP Harris said there was nothing she would have done differently from Biden, thus further linking her to a very unpopular POTUS administration, and doing so in a change election environment. That was seen by tens upon tens of millions of voters via different types of communication, both live, replays, news, social media, and political adverts.

2. The overall insistence that the economy was great and inflation was ended, that things were back to normal, when, for a huge chunk of the population this simply wasn't true in their daily lives. Their cost of housing, especially in terms of rental prices, plus the massive price gouging done by so many firms betrayed the 'back to normal' theme.

3. The embrace, in some cases at a deep campaign level (including multiple live appearances with them), of hard RWers and neocons like the Cheneys etc, simply because they were Never Trumpers was a major mistake OMHO. It yielded little positives in terms of bringing in Rethug votes, and also alienated many of our own voters. I would wager it was one of the factors that depressed our turnout. The vast majority of my real life social set (made up of mostly 20 to 35 year olds, I was 26, 27 during most of the campaign) was appalled at the linkage/embrace.

4. The failure to go on the Rogan podcast. Yes, he is a fucking rotter, but he also has an audience of hundreds of millions globally. DU too often seems obsessed with small audience legacy media outlets like MSNBC or whatever the NYT/WaPo are spewing out. Those old school trad media outlets simply are (I am not happy about it, but it is what it is) dwarfed in terms of audience and impact now by social media, podcasts, etc.

Finally, calling millions of potential voters (not speaking about MAGAts) 'stupid' is hardly an effective way to get them voting for our side.