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Most immigrants rights orgs like the Immigrant Legal Resource Center will be hosting train the trainer series to disseminate information about how undocumented folks can protect themselves/what their rights are. Local ACLUs will probably do something similar around knowing your rights when interacting with police. I encourage folks to take the training and then host an info session with folks around you whether that is family or community members. We are stronger together!
Looked up some info for general mutual aid organization and got tips on the website for ASFC, not including web address because they usually nerf comments w/ urls: American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-241-7000
Covenant House here in New Orleans has been facing so much pushback from our own governor, who’s Republican and Trump endorsed. He’s put a war on New Orleans because we are obviously a blue/minority filled area. A big example of him being such a tyrant is he pushed for law enforcement to remove homeless people from tourist sites after telling Covenant House he would give them time to help gather folks in need. The reason he went ahead without them knowing is because Taylor Swift had a 3 night concert here. If anyone needs help and support, it’s them.
My disagreement with your thesis you stated at the start of the video about her campaign being pretty good due to her numbers being decently stable is this, The Harris campaign had the data very early on that Biden couldn’t win, and the general public was not receptive to anything close to the Biden admin. Knowing this, doubling down on being the status quo candidate was just doomed from the start. So I would say strategically, it wasn’t a well run campaign. But this doesn’t really mean I meaningfully disagree with much of your other analysis. We have a racism and misogyny problem. And more importantly, we had a Biden problem. Biden running for re-election likely sealed the deal for us despite what we do.
I think the problem with the strategy of the campaign is that the democratic party is locked in by corruption in the choices they can make. They can't put someone who is actually progressive/alternative forward because it upsets the status quo / the money. I'm saying this without any right to speak as I'm European and don't know a lot about American politics. I'm just frustrated that they didn't put Bernie forward in 2016 and the reason I think they didn't is the above reason. It's the democratic committee that keeps things from changing because they are made and paid by the status quo.
THIS! I remember very clearly the discussions around the idea that Harris was Biden 2.0 and how if you were going to vote Biden then you should vote Kamala. The opposite was also true, if you weren't gonna vote for Biden, then you had no reason to vote Harris.
My same thoughts. Biden's approval rating was so low, no incumbent had ever won with that approval rating. There was a TON of excitement when Harris took over. I think the surge in donations and support when she first hit the scene undermines this thesis. The excitement disappeared when people started realizing she was just running Biden's campaign.
A worldwide cost of living and energy crisis, and Biden becomes the fall guy for it in the US. We were pretty much f'ed from the start. I believe a lot of incumbents and incumbent parties are being kicked out in a lot of places around the world. Well said.
What am I doing next? Nothing. I'm disabled, have two small kids, and work 50hrs a week. I barely have time to be involved in any of the hobbies I enjoy. I think last week I had about 4 hours to do anything after my job and kids and dealing with my own failing health and my wife works almost as much as I do and has to keep up with the portion of housework that I physically can't do. I wish i had time but that's the point. It's easier to control a population that doesn't have the time to engage because you're keeping them busy with needing money, health concerns, child care. If we could have one income and I wasn't struggling with chronic pain then we could be engaged in political discourse and that would make us in general harder to control.
@davidmason3680 parenting is a ton of work. Since I work a hybrid job and my wife works from home she does more of it than I do and I absolutely cannot overstate how much she does.
That's kind of the point. Like, I know Orwellian is thrown around way too much: but Winston pointed this out in 1984. He envied the Proles because they were too beaten down and barely getting by. It's easier to tune out and sit down because you're so exhausted. They accepted it and would rather find distraction.
@@GregStraub42 I'm sure you both work incredibly hard if you both work and have kids. While we all love our kids, raising them takes a lot of time and effort and society should recognize that since it is imperative to have children for society to continue. Working at a job less gives parents more time and energy for their children, each other and to not go insane from overwork.
my academic/uni thanksgiving communuity going to be eating good. We have been talking about HOW dem lost the election and I've been getting a lot of meals to bring to the table with FD's points. Everyone is open to talk about racism but not enough about how to root it out.
As old white guy, I wish you were wrong. This has been my conclusion as well. Too many mean and/or stupid people in this country--we can't have nice things. Subscribed!
The sad fact that "What is a tariff??" was as frequently googled a question as " What does 'Brexit' mean??" was following the UK's own disastrous election a few years back is yet another example of many of how we truly are living in what future historians will refer to as "The Stupid Ages".
@BrickDaniels-qu7bz AFTER the test, or election? Yes. Those are questions you wanna ask BEFORE the election, or test. I mean. I'm glad they are googling shit. And I am chronically late, all the time. "Better late than never." BUT GOOGLING BEFORE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER. So, yes. In this case? Yes. Yes it is. Or at least, it would be smarter to Google them JUST A BIT EARLIER, BRO
That just proves the racism hypothesis. On the lead up to the Brexit vote, all the polls showed that Brexit was NOT going to pass....and the it did. How could this be? Well, in the aftermath, one of the better explanation was: Racism. Namely, that many people who supported Brexit and largely due to anti-immigration and racist sentiments didn't want to admit it to the pollsters....the fact that tariffs were of absolutely zero concern to these trump supporters PRIOR to the election shows that their support for trump was not based on policy.
Thanks for making this video. I absolutely agree. Much watch for people on the "left" trying to make sense. But more importantly, the task is not merely to make sense of what happened but to figure out what to do next!
My disagreement is - there's a difference between being *motivated* by racism, and being *affected* by racism. We've got to understand that nuance. Yes white folks, and some minority groups, were affected by racism and xenophobia. That's part of how Republican leaders manipulate their voters. But racism, when it's unconscious, is part of bias. Our biases don't *motivate* us, they affect our decision making as we try to accomplish some other goal - the main goal being survival. The way to solve this problem isn't to tell/ train people to be less racist (which doesn't work), it's to get them into critical thinking and to build trust - which requires empathy. You're more susceptible to manipulation (and the irrationality of racism) when you're afraid, mistrustful of others, and feel your survival is at risk. Those are "vibes" based issues, connected to how you *feel* you are doing materially (the economy) and who you *feel* will fight for your interests (personality/ temperament of leaders). Psychology and political science research shows us this. If we only understand white voter behavior as a function of racism and misogyny, we'll miss the lesson. Made a short video on this and am putting out a longer analysis soon, if you're interested.
It's almost as if there was a theory about the critical role that race plays in our policies decision making, laws and history of our country. But that, alongside black history and LGBTQ+ trans identity was considered too woke and dangerous for white children (it makes them confront an upsetting history that isn't about them it's about the people affected, but the parents, Karens and law makers turn it about themselves). So rather than have those difficult and important conversations, they just shut us out call us commies and continue listening to their echo chamber. While it mostly runs in white conservative circles it also reaches out to the conservatives in black and Hispanic spaces. They are historically very religious and traditional, so they're more likely to also believe it's bad, or anti-american without really understanding it, and even if I say down long enough to break it down to my father and he didn't go into a tangent or stand proudly opposed would likely shrugg off the evidence cuz it just doesn't feel right.
@@mayo9738whether or not you are racist or not is largely irrelevant when the candidate who you decide represents your voice is, or does things that are, ultimately, racist.
@@userJohnSmithcomparatively. You don’t thinks complicated cause you live in it. Once you see understand other voting systems and how less complicated they are then you’d see
"They deserve it, but WE don't". Great take. If anyone is looking for safe meeting spaces, check your local libraries for conference rooms to reserve. They should be free of charge and most do not require a library card to use their facilities. Support for this last stand of 3rd spaces is more necessary than ever! Good luck to everyone in the trying times ahead.
I would like to also mention how you should absolutely get a library card. This is how a lot of libraries receive their funding and at the end of the day money makes the world go around with these things. Any amount you can donate to public spaces goes a long way. Obviously money is not the end all be all but the resources help.
@@renboneify Dems evil nonstop political prosecutions of trump caught up with y'all...am black and voted for trump cause I was very angry what Dems were doing to him..the whole world saw clearly Dems fuckery..Dems evil plans backfired in their faces.... hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
@@renboneify Americans don't wanna be like Sodom n gommorow..Dems were selling a culture of immorality,ungodly behaviors and Americans rejected it......
Subscribed. Thoughtful, intelligent discussion. No claims of being all-knowing or unhelpful high horse-isms. Just a place to come & hash things out, come to terms with reality. But most of all, it is a safe space to get serious, strategize & mobilize. I'm so for it! I also appreciate the even toned delivery & energy you exude. It makes facing up to & talking about these very tough subjects seem a little less... daunting. Thank you, Sir.
I'm a tiny leftist dot in the deepest red county in Arizona. Many of my loved ones voted for Donald Trump because they thought Harris was lying to them. They thought Trump was the lesser of two evils. They unironically believe Fox News leans too far left. Our area has drastically filled with people "escaping Commie-fornia" in droves. You touched on the most frustrating part: on the down ballot propositions, most people agree. It's a matter of who we trust to keep our values. My friends and neighbors did not trust Harris. Some people are blatantly racist or sexist; most people have impossibly false information. It's so damn frustrating. Edit: What am I going to do next? I'm still in my FAFO mode as the cabinet gets filled. For every announcement, I'm pointing out what these picks really mean. On a less bitchy note, I'm finding my people. We are small, but we exist, even in the darkest of red corners.
I grew up back and forth between NY and Alabama and I've come to realize that not every Red guy is Evil and not every Blue guy is a upstanding person. But if I had to choose which state benefited people with their policies more 10 outta 10 times its dem policies. Not all of them are perfect but the gap in opportunity between the two is insane
@@quebithegod2908 of course not every red guy is evil, they just vote FOR evil, which is still harmful, but not enough to treat them like a lost cause
“They thought Harris was lying to them” That’s the roll that sexism actually played. Nobody who wants to avoid women presidents was ever going to vote for dems. But a lot of “I’m not sexist, don’t be ridiculous,” people are more prone to falling for silly attack ads when the target being attacked is a woman.
property value in northern az (honestly one of the most beautiful places in the country) has just been getting crazier with the influx of rich california expats 😒 they seem to rot everything they touch
Her gender and race was always going to be a massive hurdle. But once the Democrats named her the nominee Kamala needed to do two things effectively. 1. Completely distance herself from Joe Biden. 2. Run on economic populism and make the argument for those policies while being willing to die on that hill. The more that I think of it her biggest problem above everything was that she ran as a politician in a time when politicians are the most hated people on the planet. Trump runs the Republican Party because he’s terrible at politics not because he’s good at them(as well as him being overtly racist).
Agreed. The Dems spent so much time painting 45 as an outsider, thinking that was a winning strategy. They failed to realize that a chunk of the voting public was looking for exactly that. This cycle was bad for incumbents worldwide, so all that effort they put into making him look like an aberration only further cemented his status as the 'change' candidate. Though I shudder to think what the pundits and consultant class would be saying now had she run a populist campaign and still lost. If you think these clowns are mask off now, imagine what that would have looked like. I think progressives would have been shut out for a generation had that happened. Anyway, I have no good answers at this point. Maybe I just need to stop looking at election AARs.
Look I did not vote for trump but how was he racist?? I remember when black folks loved trump. He was mentioned in over 100 rap songs. Was good friends with al sharpton, Mike Tyson, countless black realtors which he was seen with NUMEROUS times. You can't just take what you hear and believe it as truth... This is also another reason why Democrats lost Alot of ppl that has always been left leaning
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 Exactly. I think that you legitimately come up with 100’s of reasons why this was going to be an uphill battle. All of which are valid.
I would add that it's also because she's from the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area in California. Don't get me wrong. I'm from Cali, I love Cali (moved away though, too expensive. I'd move back. I miss the party). And just watch some troll or bot hate on Cali just for mentioning the "Golden" State.
Thank you. As a community organizer who has been staying the course, I appreciate your take. Someone who I respect in my community said that the real work is boring, tedious, and not instagram-able. I can’t agree more. Let’s keep doing the work.
There's a great quote from Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson that summarizes our politics pretty well. A supporter supposedly said to Stevenson: "Governor, every thinking person in America will be voting for you". Stevenson's response was "Im afraid that won't do - I need a majority."
You want a majority? 80% of Americans want universal health care. 70% of Americans want to cut military aid to Israel. 80% of Americans want universal college. Every primary Dems come up with a complicated cocktail of half-measures and hand-outs and subsidies then throw them out and blame progressives for making them talk about it. 😂 Democrats don't want an easy majority. They want consent to a practical 50.1% they can make money off of.
The second time Eisenhower got elected was right after the suez crisis, so there's a chance that even God wouldn't have stopped him from winning that time around
I’d like to share a small anecdote I experienced during and after election day. I texted An acquaintance I know, asking their opinion on who they thought would win the election. he’s a Trump supporter and when I asked him, he responded “daddy Trump. No doubt in my mind”. I expressed that I didn’t feel the same, but we shall see. He quickly sent a message saying he didn’t want to further talk about the election and that he respects as a person. However, he swiftly deleted his message. Next day I text him saying “that didn’t go down the way I thought it would”. He then said “take your L liberal” and then he blocked me. What stuck out to me. What really,really bothered me about his reaction to trump winning was his suggestion that I lost and he won. We’re both Americans and if he truly thought trump was the better candidate why would he try to make me feel like a loser. Shouldn’t this be a victory for all Americans? Maybe I’m overthinking it but if I was him, knowing all the tension and fear over the result of the election, I would try to explain that America won, everything is gonna be fine, and that trump aims to help everyone. But no. He gloated and blocked. People like him get a kick out of beating the others “team” no real desire for unity or healing. I dont see great things in the future.
I'm always confused when people rediscover Republicans every 4 years. My comp sci teacher screamed at me in class during the election results because I said Bush wouldn't win in 2000. They've always been like that.
Look, I have no dog in this fight, as I couldn’t in good conscience vote either candidate, but I doubt you would have been gracious either had Kamala won. The problem is that this country is run by the very margins of the political spectrum while the vast majority of Americans just want to put food on the table. The more we decentralize party identity, the quicker we can actually put candidates for the people in.
I think the biggest factor is - inflation was bad so we voted out the incumbent party. It's a global trend affecting basically every country with an election this year.
Yes I agree that was a big factor, she did not separate from Biden enough and acknowledge that despite the IRA and bidens work to decrease inflation, the rising cost of living and housing etc along with not much wage growth for most was still an issue for many many Americans who are economically struggling and vulnerable rn and frankly for the past couple decades! Mexicos the only country I’ve heard of whose incumbent party managed to win post pandemic and global inflation this past year , and they elected a progressive left wing Jewish woman as president! Their party seemed to have genuinely made some good material improvements for the average worker in mexico that many experienced was broadly pretty an economically populist term and campaign she ran on with emphasis on universal policies and policies aimed at building more public sector housing for the most vulnerable of folks in their country and it seemingly worked. Granted they also didn’t have a old man with dementia as an incumbent like we did with Biden so they could actually message about their wins and future progressive promises where Biden just didn’t and Kamala didn’t choose to emphasize a lot of the more progressive economic policies their admin did with the NLRB and FTC like I believe she should’ve and didn’t promise to build off of those successes and do more that would be more immediately beneficial for broad swaths of the population in the US. Lots of things had to line up in my opinion for this election to go to the dems and they just didn’t , most importantly being Biden choosing to run again at the start I think that was a massive mistake of dems to not push him aside earlier but who knows how much better Kamala’s campaign would’ve been if given more time , if maybe would’ve helped but maybe wouldn’t have its hard to say bc so much of the initial momentum seemed to fade as she outlined more policies and messages that just weren’t that inspiring to many and dropped some that were genuinely popular (price gouging being one that was brushed aside pretty quickly despite being popular)
Sorry that was long winded but my main point is I think there is stuff to learn from mexicos recent election of a woman head of state and their party’s ability to defeat the incumbent disadvantage so many other parties globally dealt with in their elections! A Jewish woman obviously a different dynamic than a Black woman and isn’t a clear cut comparison but the alternative to figuring out what the substantive issues with Harris’ campaign in order to do better next time around is to accept that Americans r too racist and misogynistic to elect a Black woman or woman as president in general and the dems choose to never give any woman a shot at the presidency again for at least a while and that is NOT the lesson I want the dems to take from this election, and am genuinely scared and concerned that that is what they’ll take away from this if the campaign isn’t analyzed by the content of it and it’s broad political message and not just who the face and identity of it was , despite that being an obvious factor that effects how ur message and candidate is perceived by the public and certain groups, it’s not everything and prejudice and bias can be overcome and be less of a significant factor in ppls decision making if the policies and vision outlined is strong and appealing enough to the masses (imo)
Kamala got more white voters than Biden. Latina women and black women had a massive drop in voter turnout. Racism and sexism doesn't make any sense. Women of color cost Kamala the election.
@@somekatsthe thing about Mexico is that Obrador was a popular leader, unlike Biden. Sheinbaum wasn't necessarily well known as much as it was that her party was popular and the right in Mexico is effectively non existent.
Untrue, Mexico's incumbent party won, decisively, with a woman leading the ticket! It turns out that if you do things like raise the minimum wage every chance you get people react positively to that. Wild how that works.
I think you missed the mark on a lot of this. Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but i live in a Trump county in California. I'm a cashier and been doing near nonstop personal polling for like the last 2 and a half months. The amount of non voters and recently turned Trump voters who said that Bidens bad economy was the main reason behind their decision was virtually everyone. Dont get me wrong there's a ton of racism but thats always been there. Kamala had nothing that the average person can stand by other then abortion protection, and even that arguement was partially mitigated by Trump. I consistently heard about how Kamla admitted Trump was right, and largely an element of fear. Trump speaks to a lot of peoples fears about economic uncertainty and Kamala outright ignores them. This was always going to be an uphill battle because of race and gender but she decided to try doing it with her eyes closed. The answer isnt to stop platforming women and poc, the answer is to start actually messaging for things that people care about, that speaks to their material conditions. They want to hear about jobs, affordable housing, being able to go to the doctor if they have a medical emergency. And if they get called a commie or a socialist make them look stupid, ask them if its wrong to reduce unemployment, or to solve homelessness, to make it so that families don't have to go into massive debt to save their childs life. You have to have a message that resonates and this video serves largely as an excuse for Democrats to point as to avoid any personal failings. Yes there is nuance but the your own framing simplifies it. Saying this as a big fan, probably didnt get my point across right, im on my bathroom break and gotta get back bye
This is why Bernie was so popular in 2016. He is an independent who pushes progressive policies. So long as he doesn't have that D next to his name, he'll always do better than any Democrat or Republican.
@@gee8419 that was because the Democratic establishment didn't want him. In 2016 and in 2020, he had the most votes for the primary until all of the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden (and Hillary) even though majority of the people were on Bernie's side. Then the media pushing the "he's too old" or the "he would never defeat trump, we need a centrist" narrative was damaging. Even though all of the evidence showed that Bernie would have beaten trump, the establishment didn't care.
The fact that people talked about Latino men more than white women as a minority voting strongly against their own interests really shows how people will fight for anything for no reason
I find it hilarious that people still think all Latino cultures are the same, or that they're all undocumented. Tell a Dominican that he's the same as a Guatemalan. I hope you have good dental coverage. Latinos often hate undocumented immigrants because they "skipped the line" and give documented immigrants a bad name. It's far more complex an issue than "all brown people should vote the same cuz they're all the same."
@@psychopompous3207 who do you think goes in the camps? And even if you're "one of the good ones" you eventually end up there anyway. I grew up around the ones that Trump's really "speaking to" with his rhetoric and they don't care about "illegal vs. legal" actually, they might say that publicly but not in their own groups (when there's no Latin MAGAs around).
The frustrating thing about trying to deal with these people is that they will jump through impossible hoops to say they aren't racist. I'd bet a good portion of them actually believe they are not racist but there votes are louder than their voices and I'm tired of hearing them
Just because someone didn’t vote for what they view to be one of the worst candidates to ever run, does not make them racist. Not even slightly. This rhetoric and delusion is what is driving the country apart
You don’t see that your blind hatred for people you don’t even know is more damaging to the country? They say they aren’t racist usually they aren’t? I’m a black man who voted for Trump. I did it because I have family in the military. Harris’ endless support for Ukraine would’ve had my brother and family in WW3. Harris outright denied having any personnel an active battlefield as my brother sends letters every month from one. Harris is a bullshitter who I’m very glad lost
As someone who went to school for political science, works in politics, and is a published researcher/data nerd who has been closely following the available data on the election... you nailed it. Your analysis is excellent and I'm going to be sharing this all over.
you should get your head checked, get a refund on the degree and become a janitor...because "it was racism" is the dumbest possible interpretation for what just happened. A Black man already ran for president on a populist platform and won....TWICE DJT ran on unleashing energy, liberty from stifling DC beaurocratic control, lowering the price of groceries and gas, ending the foreign ww3's (plural) that are brewing and rescuing the 300,000 trafficked kids missing in america tonight. Kamala refused to lay out a platform, dodged any interview that wasn't embarrassingly canned, botched alot of those anyway, and blew a 1,500,000,000$ in a couple months paying other millionaires to twerk. c'mon be real....
@@zkme2734 I'm not the person you're asking, but I think her analysis is definitely one of the most ideological videos from her. I think she has a good point that Republicans are becoming the party of the working class while Democrats are becoming of the elite. But her solution is essentially to make the Democrat party socialist and populist, specifically showing admiration for Huey Long, is interesting though worth more consideration. I agree with her that identity politics is overemphasized to the point of alienating voters by focusing on symbolic gestures and on elite minorities. I think Huey Long needs more analysis from me before I'm fully on board with imitating him, specifically in how he still controlled Louisiana while he was a senator, because while populism is an inherent part of how the republic works it shouldn't lead to them being able to defy the restrictions of government or the rule of law, both of which Donald Trump and Huey Long are guilty of. Maybe just imitate some parts
@@watching7721 strangely enough, the identity politics was a talking point of the right - most democrats didn't talk about race/gender that much. Every ad here in Texas was all about trans issues - and they were all republican candidates spreading lies/fears about gender politics. Not one ad from a democrat was about any of this. The GOP has effectively learned how to scare their followers into submission....it's sad.
I think you're largely right and that profoundly sucks, though as somebody from outside the US I urge you to consider that fact that GLOBALLY every single incumbant party dealing with the aftermath of COVID has been voted out of office this year. If you look at this as a global trend, it becomes apparent that working people (not the asset-owning class) feel that they are finacially and socially worse off than they were 4-5 years ago, and lack a defined understanding of macro-economics / the situation outside their home country which is required to see this is a worldwide issue; as opposed to hardship being caused by the actions of their own government which is far more simple to conceptualise. When interviewed people talked about gas and eggs, as if the president can control those things. Its exactly the same everywhere else that had an election this year. Low information voters make the majority of the electorate, and the average person simply doesn't understand economics. It was just the worst year on re ord to be an incumbant government, real shame that it's the year Trump ran again.
Seriously, people think this is the Soviet Union and the government decides the price of goods. No, it's generally big business that decides the price of everything, overwhelmingly Republican Americans controlling basically everything in the world subtly.
It isn’t racism or sexism when the candidate sucked hard. Kamala did too many things terribly wrong as she wasn’t even the candidate of the people. She was purely an establishment pick
I just cannot wrap my head around how people don't understand or remember that the problems with inflation started because of the pandemic, during the end of Trump 1.0 . I don't think it takes an advanced degree or anything like that; it just takes having a decent memory. And nobody is thinking about the long-term; Mr. "Only I Can Fix It" will hopefully not be running again in four years, and I wonder what the people who voted for him think is going to happen when (1) he renegs on his promises (just like 2016-2020), (2) fails to get anything done except keep people so distracted by the antics and chaos that nobody notices, (3) guts the federal government via Project 2025, and (4) does something crazy so he won't have to leave office, again--not to mention what might happen if another serious crisis like COVID happens. Eek.
Hi FDSignifire, I’m reaching out from Mozambique, where elections on October 9th have been followed by delays in announcing results due to alleged fraud. This is a critical moment, and we need international attention to pressure our government for transparency and fairness. I know your channel doesn't tend to focus on African Politics, but Your voice could make a difference. Thank you!
im Canadian, far from Africa, and I am not Black. But I am with you on this, and lot! We get so much more American content here, but I need to be focused on my own area and do better to fight for transparency here. We already have to many who want to copy Trump's play book, and our liberals aren't doing near enough to stop them. I wish our third party option was stronger. But at least we can push for transparency
Really enjoy your content. You're very well spoken and I can appreciate your views. Albeit I don't agree but still I like the way you present your views. Continued success to you and you gained a subscriber. God Bless
Basically people literally DO NOT CARE what a person stands for, what their views are, what their ideas are, people just vote based on "vibes" and I honestly blame the intenet for accelerating that trend
I agree but I find it weird that they like this particular "vibe", he has the aura of a clown replacing the national anthem with him farting into a megaphone while laughing.
Yep, you had the same people in AOC's district who voted for Trump AND AOC. She asked and they alls answered that they both seemed "authentic" and "real" It's all vibes and maybe even because Trump and AOC use social media frequently and so there's lots of people who built parasocial relations with them. If that's not proof that people are getting lazier and lazier in their assessments of candidates and don't read policies and just vote on vibes, I don't know what will. At this point, the Democrats are better off choosing a figurehead President who can "look presidential"/"look authentic" and have a parasocial relationship with the regular idiots while the Vice President is chosen based on actual competence and policies. Might as well accept that the majority of the population is stupid and play accordingly.
Racism and sexism absolutely played a big part here, but I’m not certain that a cishet white dude running an otherwise identical campaign would’ve beaten Trump either. I’ll offer an alternative theory, or at least a complementary one: The many failings of neoliberalism are apparent to everyone, and the average American voter is fed up with the way our economy has been run for the last 40-50 years. Even if they don’t have the language to describe the problem, they feel the pain of it. Trump offered a narrative that validated this pain, and painted immigrants and urban cultural elites as the villains he would go after. Democrats on the other hand basically said everything’s fine we’re just gonna keep doing what we’ve been doing. Even though Trump’s narrative is racist, and even though he likely will not do anything to address the real problems we need to deal with, at least he acknowledged the fact that the status quo is broken. Democrats refuse to admit that, and it’s a big reason they lost.
Yep. If they had adopted some of Bernie's platform after '16 maybe this could have been avoided... but it goes back to the Clintons and the Reagan-era shift into neoliberalism, as you say.
When asked about the rise of the far right in Europe, voters said they were willing to give them a shot because they need change. In the one hand this is the essence of "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" since the default for 'different' is far right, but in the other hand it reflects the point you're making that people are realising something isn't working. Luckily in France they did end up going to the left instead of to the right.
Yes yes yes!!! Thank you for wording this better than I'd be able to. Trump's evil superpower has always been the ability to flaunt norms in a system that all Americans uniformly hate. Dems have been running things as if it's business as usual (endless funding for the military-industrial complex, always talking about the mythical "center") but Americans are clearly fed up with the polite shittiness of our government. Clearly Trump is an insane alternative to select, but it makes perfect sense to me that people would be willing to try literally any other option when Kamala says that "there is not a thing that comes to mind" that she'd change about how Biden has been running things. It's like the old expression, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
While all that is true, I would like to add a perspectives for consideration: First, neither the Biden presidency nor the Harris campaign are as “pro status quo, everything is fine” as many people seem to believe. Politically, sure, they act like fossils who still think they’re living in the 00s, but in terms of economic policies, they have been vocally supportive of unions and increased taxation on the rich, both are excellent executive first steps towards addressing systemic issues. Although they should be fairly criticized for leaving truly game changing works like single-payer off the table, actual economic policies under Biden have been surprisingly pro middle and working class, at least more so than the D has been in decades, and as undeveloped as Harris’s plans were, her campaign has stuck to promising the same trend throughout. But frustratingly, these stances are not widely perceived by the public. Because the rating chasing (or just plain captured) media do no dabble in boring policy talks. Worse yet, it’s also because D’s themselves have to keep it somewhat quiet to appease their donors (same thing with Biden’s student debt forgiveness actions).
This! Kamala, in my eyes, ran an effective campaign and did everything right. Every "quality" that men like in other men, strong mindedness, leadership skills, integrity, we find more in Kamala than in Trump. It's just how it is, Trump's rallys were open therapy sessions where he was whining at his people about issues hat hardly exist, consequences of his own bad actions such as his court cases. She even won the debate against him, which no one really expected to happen. She engaged with the right wing talking points to actually speak to their issues, her only fault is her gender. I am not saying she is a perfect human, but when you are willing to hire a washed up towel over someone who is actually showing up, then I have to assume the qualifications were not a decding factor. Kamala, was in some sense, more of a man than Trump, and people could tell, but they don't care...because she will never shed organs or colour, and therefore she has failed at having either of the qualities the country truly cares about.
@@openworld6337 no she didn't. The closest thing possible she said to that was that she supported his decision to pull out of Iran. You know what Biden tried to do? Pass a bill that would make our border stronger with more guards and better equipment. You know who told Congressmen not to pass that bill? Donald Trump. In other words, Trump DIRECTLY harmed our border and immigration issues. As for the economy, Trump's entire plan is... Tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on the American people.
@@bucket9144 This would be a good argument if Harris and Biden didn’t hobble along letting thousands come in, letting civilians get killed/trafficked and drugs let in BEFORE they pushed that border bill. It’s a problem Biden created (80+ executive actions removing trumps border policy as soon as he got in office), then proceeded to sit and wait for things to get worse so they can play hero 3 years later. Sorry, I’m not voting for that 4 more years of fake problem solving. Harris never made separation from Bidens policies outside of saying “WELL FIRST OF ALL IM NOT JOE BIDEN”
The real question is, how the fuck can a state with 49% voting one way and 50% voting the other way (and 1% of votes for independents and small parties) DEVOTE 100% OF THEIR ELECTORAL VOTES TO A SINGLE CANDIDATE?!! You Americans need proportional representation! (We need it here in Canada too.)
I personally appreciate both sides I hear of with this argument. America is seen as a "constitutional republic", or rather, a collection of states. All of them can decide how their electoral votes are tallied up, for example, in Nebraska, there is a statewide electoral vote and an electoral vote for it's subsequent districts, this is the same in Maine. Basically, In my opinion, I don't mind the current system as laid out by the founding fathers, but I agree that there should be some key changes.
I don't even think it's high standards or double stands. You have two out of touch politicians who are both unpopular to their base. Trump is hyped and you got the misguided Maga following him that I think are more the minority. Trump won 2016 because of coverage and bombast, Biden won because he was not Trump, and 2024 the common perception I've been hearing is that a lot of people have kind of stopped caring like the independents but more vote on vibes instead of policy. Yeah there's racism, sexism, and xenophobia but the larger issue is that most people are struggling and are not feeling heard.
@vyor8837 voting for a candidate isn't the same as understanding and actively supporting them. The environment to actively encourage meaningful political engagement is nonexistent. Especially with having to bring down the polarization. That barrier needs to be crossed before racism, xenophobia, or sexism can be addressed.
@@sunphoenix1231 none of those are a problem. I didn't vote for him because I hated Kamala for what she was born as, I voted for him because I hate her for what she wanted to do.
“The difference between progressive policies and progressive politics.” This hits the nail on the head. On policy positions, the electorate actually overwhelmingly agreed with Kamala’s policies. Even amongst Republicans. The policies weren’t the problem. It was definitely the politics. The perception that Kamala was either more of the stagnant status quo where people are currently suffering in a very anti-incumbent era or the perception that Kamala was too far-left because………..she is a black woman 😑
@ Not in the minds of the voters. And it doesn’t change that of the two options Harris’s policies were definitely more progressive and more people favored them.
@@BenLee-xj7zm I know it's like a big deal to post about it and pretend you care for Instagram, but I don't really feel like the Israel-Palestine thing had nearly the effect people imagine it did. It's big on College Campuses, it's pretty much nothing everywhere else. Talking about the economy and quoting stock market figures, talking about jobs numbers without considering they might be higher because people absolutely can't live without one or more jobs, those were things that actually impacted her results. Whether or not American bombs are hitting someone innocent a world away? We haven't had a year without that in decades.
The unfortunate truth is a majority don't vote based on actual policies they vote based on vibes, and Harris' vibe just didnt really hit with anybody even democrats. She felt like she didn't have anything to offer in a time where where we needed a viable alternative.
It’s crazy how many of them are going to racism and misogyny. If they don’t get it together and really look at why she lost they are going to continue to lose. Kamala is the vp of the current administration, majority of Americans say they are worse off than 4 years ago yet she said she would change nothing, that’s a pretty big slap in the face to Americans but no it’s definitely the underlying racism that she lost.
@@markmalone3025they’re not clueless at all man, they know exactly what they’re doing, they’ve been in this field for decades, they understand the consequences of the choices they’re making, they just don’t care because they’re living comfy no matter what, they’ve adopted the right wing way of thinking which is dog eat dog
As a radical centrist hope is nothing more than a lie just like hopeless is lie from nihilism and radical is nothing more than a ideal crash out for a simple solution that forgets the roots
@sumitkataria7492 I personally know working class people who are very committed moderates because they've been convinced that the reason things don't change for the better is a lack of compromise and over polarization. A lot of people get their information from bad sources and barely know what right or left mean. To be clear, I agree with your main point, that discontent by and large does generate more radical positions among the general population, one way or another. But centrism definitely isn't solely appealing to the wealthy, mainly because the wealthy spend a lot of money to sell it to people
@@sumitkataria7492 the average voter doesn't understand the first thing about business, let alone macro economics. They respond to populist rhetoric, not policy (unless that policy is sold to them in a big, flashy, populist way)
One of my theories is Alarm Fatigue. The previous election was full of alarm bells and pointing towards fascism repeatedly to say “we can’t repeat what Germany did”. Outreach went far and wide to every voter, communicating how important it was to vote out this nightmare. My first thought within the relief at the time was that I hoped democrats actually put a lot of work in, because there was no way they could run on that again. Not only that, but I was absolutely LIVID that they would likely use abortion rights AGAIN. If I was some disconnected voter, and someone showed up at my door every four years to shout that the consequences would be dire, I’d like slam the door in their face. I still voted for Kamala, but you’re right in the dems basically holding us hostage. It’s a terrible feeling, and I suspect some voters could not stand that reality.
She barely even mentioned abortion which was stupid. Repealing roe V wade was an extremely unpopular decision outside of zealous bigots. Abortion rates remain the same and yet women are risking death from pregnancy complications. Harris barely brought it up in between constantly hammering away on border security. Not enough racist democrats for a make believe problem to cinch it for her.
I completely agree with this. If every election is the most important election ever and they did nothing about Trump the first time, it stops meaning anything, if you aren't paying attention.
@@lmac40762The problem is how are the Democratic Party any different from the Republican Party light. When I listen to the democrats promise and never deliver but to the top 1% how are they different. More inclusive until they are not. Where is the hate for the enemy. Where is the vindictive need to go after Christian propaganda and hate groups. 15 million people did not vote says it all.
This election got me to sign up for a few left wing newsletters and introduction events. I’m tired of sitting here and not putting my money where my mouth is. I’m going to support the causes I believe in with more than just a few bucks
Hell yeah! I’d also recommend taking care of the people around you. Practice empathy, listen to the folks who ask for help and encourage others to do the same. We are all on edge, defensive and tired (because of the election or not) and money will only get us so far. So it’s good to think about how to help your day to day life.
Yeah. And many people even argued _she_ was the ”real mastermind” behind his presidency (since Biden’s dementia and all that)… So we basically shot ourselves in the foot for that!
Exactly we had 4 years under his leadership and he hasn’t really done anything to stop the corporations from stealing from us through their price gouging, Lina Khan is doing shit sure, but what has Biden really done other than appoint a few competent people in certain positions
And their dislike for Biden was for things that weren't even his fault. Their dislike for Biden was for him being "too woke and too left." Their dislike was kind of nonsensical.
While being his (Biden) vice president do you actually think she could distance herself from the current president? You don't make sense besides Harris was just as disliked or more so by the same people who disliked Biden.
As a white audience member, I love the way you explained white people downvoting universal wellfare systems. It's horrible to think about but necessary to educate people on. you do good work man.
I mean as another white guy who's "woke" it's not surprising. There are stories of community pools closing rather than desegrigating after the end of Jim crow. They rather that no one could enjoy the pool.
I mean as another white guy who's "woke" it's not surprising. There are stories of community pools closing rather than desegrigating after the end of Jim crow. They rather that no one could enjoy the pool.
It's definitely a sobering truth I've been having trouble reconciling in the weeks after the election results. As another white audience member, I try to give compassion and empathy to all people and try to give the benefit of the doubt people aren't so bad. I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do with the convincing evidence not only are my "fellow" countrymen not nearly as progressive, forward thinking, or unified as I might like to hope, but actually many are far more backwards than we should be and are just bigots, who will froth at the mouth and shut down at the accusation. I know, I know, it's not entirely their fault, we live in a society and system designed to indoctrinate us with imperialist, hyperindividualist, white suppremacist, and patriarchal ideals from darn near birth, but part of me does wonder how so few people can see it for what it is and how it leaves me feeling like I live in a world not meant for me, where I believe in freedom and looking out for my fellow humans, all of them, of all colors and sexes and genders and sexualities across all continents.
This is a really solid take. Any "leftist" who voted for Trump in "protest" is not a leftist. There's just absolutely no overlap there. Vote for the Green Party in protest. That's not meaningless. But a vote for Donald Dump is not a protest vote. It's a gesture toward evil and harm.
Trump only picked up 2 million new voters. Kamala losing 7 million wasn't a bunch of leftists switching to the right or right-wingers moving to the right. It was people who hated every candidate.
Especially since he's going to get 2 more supreme court picks cementing a Maga court for decades. So even if you do get a good person in the white house next time, the court is going to be undoing as much progress as possible.
There should be no discussion needed about this I feel like I’m going insane 😭 Like I feel like there’s so much that needs to go wrong in someone’s head for them to view voting for Trump as anti establishment in any way and then go and call themself a leftist lol give me a break
Probably people who were hoping for the GLORIOUS REVOLUTION (that they have not prepared for, nor have put systems in place to protect our most vulnerable) to come. I saw a lot of people thinking we deserve Trump, that it will FINALLY wake up the Dems or drive the average person to tear everything down. Wishful thinking. Its basically wanting a rapture for the non-religious
I appreciate you and the work you do. Separately, I have agreed with this take from the moment the results were announced. As for what I'm doing next: I have a string of medical appointments coming up (chronic illness + gender transition), and I'm doing my best to get through them all as quickly as I can. I want to reach a point where I'm healthy and supported enough to get through the day consistently before I re-start engagement in humanitarian efforts.
I connected with my high-school best friend, who is a white man living in Arizona, and attended to a trump rally in August just before the election. I've never known him to have issues with queer people or PoC, as we both played sports and grew up in the Portland OR area, and I talked with him about my trans girlfriend. He has a upper-middle class upbringing, with well-off parents who would happily support him if he had financial struggles, but joined the army back in 2009, and retired from it 4-5 years later with a disability. His support for Trump was on his celebrity and a belief that he would be more economically advantaged under Trump. He complained about gas prices as he owned a full-size pickup that he bought under the first Trump administration He was low information as far as policy goes, and spoke of how much he enjoyed the 'Show' of a Trump rally. His thought process didn't seem that deep, but he was committed to voting.
I am gonna guess he didn't make it back up to the upper middle class status he grow up for, without the government welfare payments, of course. I am center right and by all means I should voted for Trump, but I know how bad tariff is in an already inflation plagued country so I couldn't do it, well I need to consider my own economic interests, you know, the real one.
Exactly what I saw here. The Central Valley of California has a dedicated conservative population, and of everything I've heard about Trump, they all think that he'll take better care of the economy and make more jobs. They don't like the idea of immigrants taking those jobs, and they don't like taxes. That's about it. All of the horrible rhetoric, all of the fascist talking points, all of the sexism, racism, crimes, and embarrassing actions are either completely ignored or not even known about. They've been lied to for years now, even before Trump. I'm a high school teacher, my students come from unflinching Trump households. Many of them were 5 when Trump was first elected. All of his worst stuff was at a time in their lives when they couldn't engage with it, only what their parents said. And that part they were old enough for was the pandemic, the lies, the antivax flood, Ukraine, and Palestine. They are convinced that the Dems stealing the election is a known fact. They believe every talking point because, well, it's coming from their parents. It's so disheartening to see these otherwise wonderful, hilarious, curious kids be indoctrinated so young. I legitimately don't know what to do about it.
I grew up in Portland! I try to explain to others that the racism in the PNW is insidious compared to the south which is overt (especially now that they have a candidate that will allow them to express it more).
There were always racists who would always have voted for trump, who did in the past, and were going to again But then there were those conned into thinking trump is going to change the prices of everyday items, and they made the difference
Oh the prices will change, they just won't be happy when it goes in the wrong direction. Time of people to learn how tarrifs work, and why 90% of the time they don't make anything better
@@JackdotC and even if Trump backs down from doing tariffs (the fact he's been on about doing tariffs for decades now means that it's extremely unlikely), doing a mass deportation will also crash the economy
He's literally using the strategy Hoover did during the Great Depression. The one that made everything worse. But, if the average American knew about and understood that history, we wouldn't be here rn.
It's so funny how you guys view the world to me. As a Texan from a small town of mostly whites and Latinos I can say you're pretty off base. The main reason people vote for trump here is because the democrats hate us. For example you all think that was a win when Biden forgave student dept but it pissed off every blue collor worker I know. They didn't get offered affirmative action or have money for college so most didn't go. Then Biden according to them "uses their tax dollars to pay for some entitled brats education." Oh and those college educated people continually mock and condescend to them on top of that. Oh not mention the only person in your party who actually cared about us Bernie Sanders got kicked out, so a fucking Clinton could take his place. Most people think it was about gays or race or something but that shit was just something people could point to in order to show how dumb the democrats were but it was not the main reason no matter how much you wanna believe that
Oh and the Latinos and blacks who voted for trump are not as dumb as yall think they knew the border was open so big corporations could get wage slaves who would indirectly affect their upward mobility.
Perfect. Sent to me, 75 Jewish Man in California by my daughter who's 34 and lives in Brooklyn and I'm really glad I got to see this. After the holiday I will send this to all the people I went to college with.
Amazing this comment deserves 271k likes in 5 days since 6 million would be impossible I’m very sorry for I wish you the best I have a 14 year old younger brother and an 88 year old grandpa who’s also Jewish shalom
Thank you *so much* for this video. The sooner we admit these are the problems, the sooner we can start to address them. I've only had about 5 moments of hope since the election. This is one of them. The sad fact is, nobody has done enough. I havent done enough. I am currently endeavoring to do more and better. I hope it is not too late. Also, of course you got heated. People are out here being foolish. Your anger is a gift.
Its not sexism or racism, it was a terrible candidate nobody voted for and 4 years of bad policies. The lack of accountability is shocking. You're telling me the majority of Latinos hate women and black people? Wake up or you will keep losing.
She was an awful candidate tagged in at the 11th hour. How did you think she was going possibly win? She and Biden are both wildly unpopular as the country head in a direction no one likes besides the elites who tells you it's rain when they wiz on you. She ran a terrible campaign and deserved to lose accordingly. She lost to popular vote, so not like some select section of the country voted against her to cause her defeat, she got dragged by all walks of life.
@@christopherc8563 Not only that, she told them they were losers, as she changed her mind about all of her previous "positions". Kamala Chameleon should be her walk on song.
I think a big difference between Kamala and Biden that you ignored is WHEN they ran. One after 4 years of Trump and a mismanaged pandemic, the other after 4 years of ineffective liberal governance with rising commodity prices.
@@Sephiroso. She may as well been, considering she wouldn't distance herself from Biden and even went so far as to say that nothing came to mind as far as what she would've done differently from him over the last 4 years.
Biden wasnt ineffective though..You do your homework on what he achieved, he was highly effective. Even numerous bipartisan bills that helped thousands of households. The problem I see is republicans have been tweaking their messaging for decades while the dems have been "playing nice" and letting the misinformation spread. While conservatives squawk about bias in mainstream media, all I saw was Trump. We know by now theres no such thing as negative media so when people see him constantly thats how they vote. Not to mention how poorly his court cases were handled. NO WAY it should have taken 3 years to get the ball rolling..
Don't agree with everything here but I love that you have so much analysis to actually support what you say. The biggest issue I have is that you seem to be saying her race and sex were insurmountable hurdles.
@pryncjericho Greetings. I think the level of misogynoir is likely the strongest form of discrimination in the US, but I remember the prevailing notion was that we would never have a black prez and that he would be killed if he came close. We mentally limited ourselves and what we could accomplish. His win was overcoming anti-black sentiment in the country. I see no reason if she were a more authentic and competent candidate who wasn't tied to an unpopular Biden that she couldn't have won despite the misgynoir she faced.
@@pryncjerichoher playing the race card backfired on her. Should’ve left it alone. The left are the ones ALWAYS talking about race. Her gender had nothing to do with her loosing bc she could’ve identified as any one of the other 20 genders. She’s just not a good candidate, and she isn’t honest.
@@pryncjerichoshe immediately made it the hot topic of discussion calling herself a black woman after receiving numerous “First Indian American to ______awards”. A lie that puts her whole career under scrutiny. People dug up her history, found out that she was an Indian-Jamaican woman raised in Canada and got pissed at her for ever trying to Co-Opt American Blackness for virtue or easy clout like Obama. Then she says “sick em boy” and sends the ACTUAL OBAMA TO TALK DOWN ON BLACK MEN AND CALL US MISOGYNISTS FOR NOT FUCKING WITH HER HELL NAH.
i think Unc is half right. As a hispanic man in my mid-30s who voted twice for Obama and then thrice again for the lesser of two evil options in 2016, 2020, and 2024, I think Unc downplays the burnout effect of former democrats who are comfortable enough in life and just tired of the democrats not delivering. I'm in one of those swing states and I left another former swing state with a large hispanic majority district and even the 2nd and 3rd gen hispanics, those that went to college, couldn't get it up for kamala. not out of racism or sexism, we come from countries with black, asian, white, jewish, and even women presidents but at the end of the day, it was the policies. there was nothing there to deal with the 'corruption' of Washington, that's a big thing for us b/c a lot of our countries are seen as corrupt. i'm not saying that racism and sexism didn't play a part, of course there are knuckle draggers that will always vote based on that but at least in both of my swing states, talking to friends and families there was no hype, it felt like it doesn't matter who wins b/c the banks will get bailed out first, then those with ties to the government, and the workers will get caught with the bill. i know plenty of people who are happy the democrats lost, not so much because hate kamala but b/c they want the establishment democrats gone, they want another option. Edit1: There's data that shows that Kamala lost the black vote in Georgia. Look if she can't get the black vote in Georgia i don't think the blame is solely racism or sexism. I think it's POLICIES. we're not dumb, we can see that neither party offers anything and people are voting out of desperation or for the candidate who at least said was going to do something. I do hope the current democratic party leaders leave but i don't see that happening, the mainstream media is already doing the blame every minority group and saying kamala was perfect and the old democratic leaders are running again (Pelosi) and there seem to be no challengers for leadership in the house and senate. The democratic party are the republicans of the 80s and I'm telling you that deflates voter turnout. This coming from a guy whose best financial interest would be to vote republican, i've been living comfortable but I grew up with social programs, I know what it's like to struggle but even the barebones support I had back then seems miles ahead of what people can get now.
Part of the reason for the stagnation is the fact that Congress has been in a borderline 50/50 split sense 2008 ( I think.) If the Dems want to make bigger promises and sweeping changes. They need at least 61 seats in the Senate to avoid filibuster and the Majority in the House. I think in our conversations on the left we can talk about the importance of Congress in all of this more.
Bingo! I couldn’t have said it better. Kamala was a horrible candidate. I voted for 3 women for president in my lifetime, Hilary, Warren, and stein so im not a misogynist. I’m black so hopefully im not a racist against my own ppl. I voted for stein cuz Harris AND trump are just horrible candidates. And the dems are sooo ineffective at accomplishing the goals they pitch during campaign season.
This is very understandable... And yet... Do these folks Not understand that Trump and the like will literally do their damnedest to boot them out the country and make things far far worse??? I get being fed up .. but that's why I turned to anarchism and local community building and dual power systems and learning how to actually disempower the government altogether. I really can't vibe with people who think electorial politics is the start and end of their ability to change things. STOP DEPENDING ON PEOPLE IN POWER TO GIVE YOU CHANGE!!! The only purpose of voting is to make a bit easier for you to do the local work where it actually matters. Just giving up and taking your ball home is only going to make it easier for them to come and pop your ball.
Excellent take. The one exception I can think of is Obama in 2012, when he lost a lot of steam. I think most people were still waiting for that Hope he promised, and just blamed the Republicans for all the things he couldn’t do, even at times when he could do them.
So basically, the Republicans have to mess up so badly in these four years that their future is gone? My god, I do not want to wait on that miracle. And that miracle is very messy even if it happens.
@@distinctlydri2831 They are STILL mad about Obama. It's been nearly a decade and they are STILL mad about. They literally won't shut up about him. They can't.
One thing that I’ve seen as well is how in other major nations incumbents were also ousted due to the general global economy issues worldwide. Not saying her identity didn’t hurt her among white voters, but she did pretty well considering the general anti incumbent attitude globally right now
@@BenAlmond69 Bro Biden is more to blame than anyone for her losing. He waited way way way too long to give up and the dnc made the terrible but almost only choice they could to just nominate Harris instead of holding a primary because it wasn't enough time to campaign if they held one.
@@BenAlmond69 lmao I highly doubt the Democratic Party is completely dead just cause one candidate failed. Also I don’t consider the democratic party “mine”, I’m far more left than them
My mom was streaming TV yesterday, and a Kamala Harris ad played. It was a kick in the gut. Why would we care about scaring the donor class ( with anything left of Reagan neoliberalism ) if those donations are being spent showing ads a month after the election?
@@samus598 because the Democratic party is a party of grifters and oligarchs. Scamala had more billionaire donations than Trump as well as more money from Israel and the military industrial complex what does that tell you
@@duckofdeathv1595 which shows poor budget management by kamala and her team.. immagine wasting billions giving money to already rich people... Imagine that person 20mil in dept running the country hahahahahahahhahah. And you lot think ''racism'' and ''mysogyny'' were the reasons she lose.. xD..
My (white) mother recently asked me why I voted for the "crazy lady" instead of Trump. I explained to her that I found his policies repugnant , his personality vile and miserable, and his history (especially on covid) to be abysmal. My mother responded that Trump wasn't a great choice, but Harris was too extreme, stupid, impulsive, and can't be trusted with leadership because she's deceptive and dishonest. Quite honestly all things that apply to Trump by massive margins. Do I think my mother voted for Trump as a conscious misogynist or racist? Probably not. But I don't know how people can claim that race and sex didn't play at least some part in this election. Also, just to vent, I hate how white liberals seem to be chalking this loss up to the Democrats being "too woke", especially on trans rights. All over the place. I have at least one trans friend who needs to make arrangements to leave the military immediately because Trump is booting her out. I have another few trans friends who are earnestly considering moving out of the country because things are not looking good. A soon-to-be-sitting trans House rep is getting hazed for being trans. And all white liberals can do is stand around and twiddle their thumbs because they don't see this polling as a valuable issue to them anymore. Feels like all the Democratic Party does anymore is fundraising and focus group testing.
They listened to what people said of her and never gave her a chance. I promise they never saw a real video of her truly speaking to the people, only a few clips that made her look “bad” to them. I’m from New Zealand and she’s still centre right in my country. She was a brilliant start to focusing on the people, but still, the current media landscape absolutely slandered her, and in our country there would be heavy consequences for the vile crap people on Fox said about her. America has normalised some terrible sh*t with this election.
You might not like it but I think you do not understand what you're normal John Smith thinks about where US is heading, I suggest you cast all you belief's and presuppositions aside for few days and emarse yourself into political massageing of center-right or just center. Mind you as a European (polish) imigreant liveing in other European nation (UK)I did not care who would win, from my outsider view the main causes for trump's victory are - persistent inflation/ sticker shock under Biden - failed assasination attempts on Trump - democrats failure to run preminiery elections for their presidential candidate
@@JakobF369Ah yes. Mr. "Grandma and grandpa just need to watch the kids, that's how ya save money on baby sitting!" What a great guy... Bet you're a great guy too... May God Bless you this Thanksgiving.
This is the best breakdown i have seen so far of this elections. Sadly the finger will never point to those really responsible. This is beyond frustrating and i am not even American. I feel for you guys. The same shift is coming here in canada as well.
Canada....Justin Trudeau...we get a lot of Canadian stating how insufferable Canada has turned under this Leftist....He is another Gavin Newsom....his policies are disasterous....Trust me a lot of Canadian posts on American videos...and many wish they can have a Trump in their country....76M Americans and many otheres around the world are very happy that we have a strong leader in the White House. The Left's polices, all though well intentioned do not playout in the real world. Its like a fantazy that you many have (Karl Marx) but if you actually put it into practive the impact may not be what you intended for yourself and the people involved. We need pragmatist to run the show, not ideologiist. I will vist Canada when Mr. Trudeau leave. By the way did you hear that he came to Ma a Largo to kiss the ring?
It’s not dude, he’s just a guy that pronounces all of his words but there is no substance in what he says. He’s not talking about any real policy or ideology. It’s all “Trump won because racist white people”, but no real insight into WHY people voted Trump. He’s just coping.
Of course racism and sexism played a role in this election. A ton of Americans will never vote for a black person or a woman and still feel scandalized that Obama was elected. And those people are Trump's base who he did a great job of speaking to their perceived grievances. My issue with the take that racism and sexism were the main reason for her loss is that it seems to mostly rely on the idea that Kamala's lower vote share than Biden in 2020 indicates that people who voted for Biden were unwilling to vote for her, and the only difference is their race and gender. I think that is a myopic assessment. It ignores that anti-incumbent sentiment worked in Biden's favor in 2020 and against him and then Harris in 2024. When shit is bad, people vote out the party in power. I could accept this take if you had polling that showed there were millions of people willing to vote for Biden back before he dropped out and who then decided to stay home for Harris. My take is that Biden ran an ineffective campaign that tried to claim he had been an effective president and thus people should trust him to continue. When it became clear to the party elites that that was DEFINITELY not a winning strategy, they pushed him out and then gave Kamala the busted hoopty of a campaign to fix and run for the last 100 days. She was fighting an uphill battle, but instead of distancing herself from Biden, she doubled down on his strategy. I think anti-incumbent and anti-establishment sentiment played a bigger role in this loss than racism or sexism, and I think Biden's floundering polling demonstrated that those people were already turned off from voting for him and thus her.
Agreed. The excitement for Kamala was white hot when she first took over. There was a huge surge of support initially that died down over time as Kamala failed to distance herself from Biden. Also, the Republican social media troll factory is a machine. People who don't follow politics knew all the anti-Kamala talking points.
@@myusernamewasinuseyes… but weird to bringing up the election-determining roll of anti incumbent attitude without talking about inflation. People wouldn’t vote blue and the reason is that their lives are worse than they were four years ago. The overwhelming swing from 2020 was low earners away from dems. And it was the steepest drop in dem voter share since….. drum roll… 1980, following high inflation under Carter
Tbh I don’t think it’s that complicated. In the past year incumbents have lost by historic margins worldwide because of inflation. Deserved or not Joe Biden is the face of inflation in America. I don’t know if attempting to break from Biden would have been enough to win but it would have been a miracle to win as a black woman with a platform of being just like Biden.
Hence why Biden should have never ran for reelection, _just like he promised_ way back when. But no, he had to be _the_ guy until he couldn't be the guy so he chose his vice president who stuck to his shoe so hard she inherited his issues.
Obama getting into office was already a kind of miracle by itself way back when. Most right wingers saw Harris as a DEI hire, in combination with being right off the back of Biden, and only 4 months to campaign. The odds were overwhelmingly stacked against her.
Your approach to the data is great and is probably more useful than anything you will get from trained statisticians. I greatly appreciate the effort because I’ve been searching for someone to talk about what it means that trump won states where democrats won senate or gubernatorial races. I don’t find your explanation persuasive, but I still appreciate the video.
Everyone who's blaming 3rd party voters is coping. This ain't like Gore in 2000, she wasn't just a few thousand votes away from winning. Even if every 3rd party voter voted for Kamala, she still would've lost. She just would've lost a little less strongly.
@@damienhouse77063rd party definitely had a spoiler effect in 2000 and 2016. It did not have an effect for 2024. It's hard to tell how high it can be.
I kinda feel like the big amount that she lost by kind of snapped me out of a certain complacency with the system and I've been looking into a broader range of political voices as a result. It's been easier to filter some things as actually kind of niche issues that don't sway the viewer base at large with this large a difference.
You point to a painful reality in conservative white america. I remember one time a mexican man came in for an interview where i work. Casually dressed but respectable looking, young guy. My coworkers happily showed him around just as they did for me. But when he left they immediately started inquiring what country he came from. Noted discomfort in his presence and thought he would be trouble. This guy was perfectly nice and and congenial, he was a little nervous and awkward but that was exactly how i was when i first started there as well. I really could not find a valid reason for their discomfort. When election day came no one outwardly celebrated trumps victory. But comments sneering at news publications implying racism and sexism charging trumps success were scattered throughout the day. Curiosity got the best of me and i asked a few of them why they thought trump won. almost all of them said "his economic policy", but when i pressed what they saw in his plan most questioned his goals with the tariffs, and revealed they didnt actually know much about his economic policies. Make of that what you will.
The likelihood is they really did vote based on economic policy, they just never really looked into it. Most voters take campaign statements at face value. If the Trump campaign says their policies will improve the job market, most will trust it to be true. They may not necessarily be economically illiterate (or secretly racist/sexist), they're probably just lazy and therefore overly trusting. Most people cant be bothered to analyse policy. Lets be real, when it came to economic policy, Trump offered change, and Harris offered the status quo. If people see that things are bad, they'll take the 'change' candidate - they'll take that roll of the dice. Trump has won two elections not because of racism/sexism, but because he was the 'change' candidate in both elections during periods of severe economic decline. The only reason Obama got two terms is because he oversaw relative economic improvements during his first term, since he came into office shortly after the 2008 collapse (as the change candidate - see the trend).
Thanks for this. They always *say* "the economy" but that's not the real reason. It just makes you sound like an informed voter when you say it. Americans are just like Trump, faking their way through a book report.
Your anecdote about the Mexican applicant reads a lot like you are leaving out all the important explanation that might point to something other than racism. For example you say "I couldn't really find a valid reason for the discomfort..." But you didn't even give us an example of their invalid reasons. So they did give you reasons, but you don't find them valid? A few similar signs like that makes me think you were kind of....only seeing things that lead you to a conclusion which you think is true. One other factor to mention: do your colleagues know you aren't a Trump enthusiast? If some lefty in my workplace started drilling me about economic policy specifics, I would clam RIGHT up, straight away. Similarly if anybody drilled me about race questions. Super red flag. I would give off a superficial answer, then cut off conversation so I would seem pretty dumb too.
It's taken me 6 years to recognize it, but I've over the past year finally determined what my "resistance" will look like. Next fall, I'm returning to university to study social studies education. I'm going to be a teacher, and what I'm going to do my absolute best to do is educate future Americans on the true history. I'll be educating them on the true ethics and civics that should inform every voter in this country. My students will not be able to say "I didn't know that" about xyz harmful policy that authoritarians will push. Because they will know better. I only hope that I will be legally allowed to share the truth with them.
Dude, your whole statement is a walking red flag. As someone poised to teach English Lit what you said sounds like brainwashing. What is the 'true' history? What are the 'true' ethics? You have as much authority on the truth as I do, which is none. There is no objective truth. What I'm teaching my students is HOW to think, not WHAT to think. We all perceive our reality differently, but we can guide the next generation by giving them the tools to change the world for the better. Cramming your agenda down their throat isn't that. Just show them we are a flawed country, that no one politician will ever truly solve their problems or promote their values, and that their voice will always matter to the future of this nation. That's all you need to do.
In soviet communist russia economics was banned from being taught and studied. So long as you don't start teaching anti trump economics or too much "woke CRT DEI" you're probably good from this administration
I think the economy still played a major impact to the differentials. People who weren’t active in politics blamed the post-COVID nightmare on the democrats, and were willing to vote for a different party even if their promises for fixing the problems are faulty or worse. It’s less clear in American election data, but more in global data (the shift of power from incumbents to rival parties in many countries)
Agreed. All around the world, incumbents lost, which suggest that Kamala’s lost was a part of bigger wave of punishment by voters. Hard for me to see the economy didn’t play a part.
Perception will always be greater than reality, and with the economy people will blame those currently in power for what they're currently experiencing. Doesn't matter if it's a mess that might take years and was someone else's fault.
12:00 Michigander here, as well as a student at a fairly liberal university. The kind of hate being thrown at Muslims by leftists in my community is fucking disgusting. Dearborn, Michigan - the city with the highest density of Muslims outside of the middle east - turned red this election, and people are losing their fucking minds, talking about how Muslims should have sucked up their pride and voted for Kamala rather than voting third party, trump, or not voting at all. The lack of empathy is utterly insane here. Truth of the matter is this: this kind shame towards Muslims is bullshit. Asking someone to vote for a woman who served the administration that abetted and assisted in their people's genocide is wrong. Especially when that very woman vowed to continue her support while refusing to comment on a ceasefire. "I mean, yeah, all of your family and friends are butchered and buried under Gazan rubble, that really sucks . . . but what about the lesser of two evils, huh?" Genuinely revolting. Stay safe out here, y'all.
Leftists leftists? I just fail to see why a real Leftist would be so disappointed that their preferred genocidal capitalist party didn't win an election. Maybe they were progressive Liberals?
i live in MI aswell its terrible how nasty liberals have gotten after the loss they out here acting like the minorities are the ones in the wrong for being hated
I was at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, for 9-11. Very few people did what was right, as the rhetoric against Muslims and Arabs ramped up. Proud to say that I did. It's a strong current to stand against, but it's one that dissolves illusions even as it bruises and cracks your ribs. I'm glad for you, and I understand what you're feeling. Stay strong.
@@donalvarez4006Yeah the argument from the Michigander made no sense. I won't defend hate but it is insane for a person who got more votes caused the conditions in the middle east in prior administration and he promised to be worse. History is a good teacher. Liberia has an election in the 90s and the people voted for a man who admitted to killing their families, Charles Taylor, over what would then be the first female president.
Incumbent parties got cooked across the globe regardless of which direction they leaned. I think there needs to be a point we stop micro analyzing Kamala’s campaign for the failures in its messaging when Trump’s success can only be measured in the broadest strokes. Joe Biden was going to lose due to post-pandemic inflation, and Harris blew her only advantage by becoming an extension of him. I believe in economic populism, but Bernie would’ve been in the same boat if he and that doctrine had been at the helm.
I agree mostly but I think Bernie would’ve done significantly better because the reason incumbents lost is because people wanted change. Kamala was no change from Biden but Bernie would’ve been. He would’ve went on Rogan and every podcast trump went on because he actually has a message to give to the people unlike Harris. Also Rogan along with a lot of people who watch him and other independent podcasts are huge Bernie supporters. Idk if that would’ve been enough to win though
Great video, slightly ashamed to say some of the things I'd believed from others/thought myself about the election results seem to be more vibes based than backed by the actual data. Thank you for the great analysis.
1st of all, Dems ran Biden again cuz to not do so, would be to admit even they saw Bidens cognitive decline. Had they not ran Biden, that would have put Biden's current term in jeopardy. They had to wait until Biden dropped out. So u don't have anyone else to blame but Biden. Had Biden backed out immediately, Harris would have had a better chance at voter turnout. Instead the media showed video proof of Harris switching stances on literally anything she was interviewed about during her short campaign. This lost voter trust.
Honestly, I didn't want to vote for Kamala. The only reason I did was for Walz. He did great things in Minnesota and I thought they would talk about things like that throughout the rest of the campaign. Even that little nugget that they gave to the left, I was okay voting for her. But a lot of other people werent. And it makes sense. When you have one candidate going "I will be a Republican" and the other going "oh yeah? Well I will be a Republican Lite!" Then why would anyone on the left vote for the Republican lite? Why would Republicans vote for the Republican lite? They would just vote for their team. And the Dems just chasing this mythical centrist voter without ever thinking about how this affects their base is really alarming. The border, Israel, and trying to appeal to Liz Cheney voters is the 3 main issues that they went to the right without listening to the left wing base. And they wonder why people on the left didn't vote for them this time. We need a true populist left candidate like Bernie in 2016 if we are going to have any chance of winning.
I’m in an election where people desired change saying that you wouldn’t do a single thing different than biden and not having an answer for what something you would do if you could do it without checks and balances we’re absolutely terrible. Very simple and easy answers to both of those questions but she couldn’t do it.
I’ve seen people bring up the racism part more often than the sexism part. Both definitely had parts to play in her loss. This is the second time Trump has beaten a woman in an election, and he’s a convicted felon for god’s sake. You cannot convince me that sexism had nothing to do with him winning
The most honest and accurate post election analysis I’ve heard so far. Somehow, being frank about America’s most decisive issue has become a third rail.
i respect you for talking about how there is much more to this than an election unc! building a support group for yourself is key. like you said a lot of the fighting on the internet doesn’t help much, quite the contrary, so look out for yourself and your community! good video
I’d disagree with your thesis that Kamala Harris’s core reason that she lost was because of racism and sexism, mainly because I view that racism and sexism as a constant that was going to be there no matter what. Like you said, we as black people and especially black women have to work much, much harder to overcome those barriers to be in the same positions that other people can get to easily, and this is nothing new and has existed since the creation of this country. Kamala Harris and everyone else already knew that going into her campaign, and she still ran it like she was Biden or Hillary or any other bland establishment Democrat that gets to coast by on not being as evil as the other party. Personally I’d say that the main reason she lost is because Kamala (and the rest of the democratic party) gave a lot of people no reason to vote for her other than who she isn’t. If we compare her and Barack who faced a lot of similar issues, Barack gave the people many specific policy reasons to vote for him like health care reform, gay marriage, and starting an end to the war in Iraq. Barack gave people many policy reasons to ignore his identity as a black man, but Kamala didn’t have much except abortion rights and not being Trump. Voters are selfish at their core, and if you don’t give them a reason to vote against their internal biases you can’t expect that they’ll reckon with them and overcome them.
I guess my main point is that racism and sexism shouldn’t be labeled the core issue to her loss because both you and I know that using that as an excuse doesn’t change anything about the reality of your situation, and that shouldn’t be any different for Kamala Harris. If I know my teacher is overly critical to my papers because she has a racial bias against me, saying the core reason I failed her is class because she’s biased is not actionable and just leads to nihilistic quitting. If instead I say “Damn, she’s being really picky about my papers, let me make sure to do my best to shore up any issues i may have so she has no excuse but to grade me well”, I can use that to put myself in a better position to succeed, which is what a lot of us have had to do in every aspect of our lives to not only get by, but prosper. If she couldn’t do that to overcome that racism and sexism inherent in our society, she shouldn’t’ve taken up that nomination in the first place.
She tried to make the rural white man, who was never going to vote for her, reasons for voting for her all while giving the diverse urban person very little insentive for voting for her. They still voted for her, but whoitout the support of white rural men sho was lost. She needed poc people in masses but instead she (and democrats in general, beause all of them have done this time and time again) went for the white rural men that was never going to vote for her no matter what she said.
It's odd to me because if one truly chooses to believe that she lost because of racism and sexism what is the counter to that? I feel like we shouldn't just tell black women to not run for our countries highest office
I completely disagree with the idea that she could've won if the same campaign was ran by a white guy. She did lose in part due to racism, but also because she binded herself to Biden, someone who is historically unpopular, and also she completely capitulated on the republican talking points.
Like you actually don’t. Her campaign was gone completely because she was black. I don’t understand why you people want to minimize the impact white supremacy has on this country.
Not so sure it would have helped if she distanced herself from Biden. They were saturated with right wing media constantly telling them she is Biden's #2.
@@suzettegibson6407 The average American is not a QAnon follower. Her loss was down to a lot of the people who voted for Biden not voting at all rather than a significant amount of people who previously voted Dem voting for Trump. There was a surge of donations when she replaced Biden as the nominee. She had momentum, and she squandered it all by campaigning to keep the status quo when it's currently unpopular, attempting to court the right-wing vote with her policies, and palling around with the Cheneys.
what dumb take. "won if the same campaign was ran by a white guy" is rooted in HISTORY and FACT. in the 250 years of the US, one person has been president that wasn't a white man??? so her race and gender were HUGE obstacles to overcome even if she ran the most effective campaign.
F.D. keeps missing one detail -- voter turnout by race and gender based on exit polling, not just share of the final vote. The largest decrease in voter turnout was young people, black women, and Latina women. Kamala got MORE white women than Biden and Trump lost more white men than the Democratic Party did. Kamala did better with white people than Biden did. Kamala did worse with women of color and young people than Biden did. F.D. hints at both but doesn't tie them into a single theory because it debunks his argument: leave progressives alone. Sorry. This was progressives. Democrats lost 7 million voters, almost all of them women of color, most of them young. We could have figured this out on election day. Total votes were down, shares for young voters and women of color were down, ergo, Dems lost millions of young people and women of color -- more than they needed to win.
For three elections now I've been swallowing my disgust and voting against Trump because I live in NC, and I'm really ready to have somebody I actually want to vote for
In order for that to happen, you need to build from the ground up with more progressives throughout the whole country. Anyone like Bernie Sanders will get pushed aside by the establishment or greatly hindered if they somehow win. But so many people don't even bother to vote, then complain afterwards why nothing gets better, it's all self reinforcing.
@@Richard.PExactly. NC Democrats did much better than they have in years. It takes lots of work and that has been done by the Democratic chair in NC, who is the youngest in the country. Andy Beshear is able to be governor of Kentucky by his framing. Beshear defending minorities and the LGBTQ community in Kentucky is very inspiring.
Pause, he considers the moderate liberals the left and they aren't. They are conservatives in blue clothes. The left he is speaking of despises my fellow Palestinian brothers and sisters. Liberals are not the left.
At the end of the day bro, you said it at the end of your video.. No one knows what to do because we are void of leadership as a people ✊🏾.. & even if we did have that leadership we are so lost as a people we'd be divided on the direction the leader instructed us to go in.. It's really a very sad state of affairs that our people are in right now!! But I appreciated the breakdown of this vid.. 👍🏾
I'm an outsider to your country and i very much see your points in analysis you are making and I agree with you! You're an intelligent educator. Thank you!
Your analysis is spot on, but i think you’re underselling the value of energy. I voted in a red town in a blue state, the Trump hype was crazy. Biden was empowered by Trump Fatigue in 2020 as an unknown quantity because of his progressive posturing. People came out in big numbers to vote against a status quo they were unhappy with. Trump rode in on Biden fatigue this time. You’re not wrong that race and gender played a role, but there was no energy behind Kamala. People voted for Trump because they like him, vs the reason most people voted for Kamala was that she wasn’t Trump. I’d agree her race and gender played a role, but the lack of any greater movement around her should be considered a big deal. I think there are suburban and rural dems who stayed home and republicans who might have stayed home if they didn’t see their vote as pivotal to changing a status quo that they were unhappy with. Not all Trump supporters are racist and sexists, some are, but some just blame democrats for everything wrong with the country. She didn’t present those people with a better vision so Trump got a lot of the votes of people who weren’t happy with the status quo. Those people are okay with racism and sexism, but you’d be surprised how many people outside of the internet don’t think about things in those terms.
Deep red state here. Yes they fucking DO think of things in those terms, and I won't be lied to about that. What an unbelievably soggy and tired display of apologetics.
I agree with you, with the exception of saying that only some Trump supporters are racist. All Trump supporters, if they are not personally racist, have at least made the decision that blatant racism doesn’t turn them off (which I would argue makes you racist). Trumps bigotry is not in anyway hidden, it is one of the most central parts of his politics and his appeal to millions of people. I think it’s disingenuous to act like these people simply don’t know better when Trump himself is the one telling people he’s a bigot.
Thank you for making your video. You have a lot of great points. I plan on working with my union to make my workplace more accepting of minorities. It might not be the most radical of actions, but it has to count for something.
I think your analysis is spot on and you left room for additional dialogue about what happened this election. Like you, I voted against Trump which meant me voting for Harris. Was she the candidate I wanted, no. Honestly, I wanted Hillary in 2016 but we all know how that went. America is a part of a much larger global political right leaning movement that's showing up in most Western nations. As Americans, we have to stop looking at our politics within an American bubble. We live in a world dominated by globalisation and all Americans who care about such things should always consider that when looking at our national politics.
Commenting for engagement and mild correction. At 17:00 you swapped the states these women won in. Lisa Blunt-Rochester won here in Delaware. Thank you for keeping up the fantastic political work on top of all that you do.
We have a nation of people who failed a take-home exam they had months to prepare. People are unironically concerned about the Leopards they just admitted voting for. It's all a joke, literally, figuratively, metaphorically, cosmically.
In a comedy this would have been the punchline. There is a weird amount of people I have seen who voted for Trump and seem to regret it the day after? Like okay, then why did you vote for Trump?
@@skyaero8773 every trump voter I seen has been ecstatic about his semi-establishment "totally against establishment" picks and is just getting happier
I live in rural Minnesota. Minnesota has been blue forever. But in rural Minnesota my family and I are completely surrounded by houses with trump signs in their front yard. Driving into town the last couple months has been very disheartening.
Wasn't Minnesota like the only state Reagan didn't win in 1984? yet even in such a stronghold, Trump performed really well lol. Yeah it must be because he has the best policies, there's something truly magical about Trump you see 🤦♂
Great breakdown!! I learned a bunch, and we agree on a lot, too. I am ready for a woman to be president regardless of color, as long as they are democratic in nature. Unfortunately, a majority of the country doesn't feel the same. I look forward to your future videos.
Why is no one talking about Democrats basically having their candidates appointed by ultra wealthy who knows who’s rather than really chosen by the people in a fair, open primary?
And watching Elon Musk on stage with Trump and be part of the incoming administration's phone calls and discussion doesn't inform you of who bought Trump? The fact that the VP is someone that's been on the payroll of Peter Thiel for years, both as an employee and as a politician doesn't bother you? I agree the neoliberals in the Democratic party are too beholden to corporate interests; you can't be a party for the working class if you only listen to business interests. But saying the Democrats are bought out by billionaires ignores the two that literally bought their seats at the table more directly than anyone since the Gilded Age.
Because it's not relevant, all candidates are selected this way. The notion that Republican nominees aren't appointed by the wealthy whose donations fund their campaigns to garner votes in the first place, is ridiculous. All campaigns run on money. The people don't choose who the candidates are in either party, they're preselected for you.
@@Melesniannon point is that Democrats cared so little about winning that they didn't bother doing a primary and also had Biden stupidly running a second time. Even if he were more mentally present and stuck around there was no way Biden was gonna win, much less Harris.
Election day needs to be made a federal holiday and have compulsory voting. It's ridiculous how we consistently see that upwards of 30-35% of the US population didn't vote in an election
I agree with the sentiment, but it's naive to think that all (or even most) of that non-voting block would vote blue. Anecdotally, Michigan has set new records for voter turnout every election since the 2018 midterms, yet the 2024 results came out decidedly purple despite the previous three elections being decidedly blue.
I will agree with compulsory voting when there is a binding "None of the above" option that rejects/disqualifies the entire current crop and forces them to offer better candidates and repeat the process until someone actually wins a legitimate majority. Without this, it's a sham to call what we're offered "representation". I have never felt represented by a politician in my life. Whether I vote 3rd party, or refuse to participate, somehow it's always _my_ fault that the bad guy won. I will not accept compulsory strategic (lesser evil) voting. That's not choice, it's fraud.
I’m a white leftist who grew up in Texas. My parents are both conservative but love defining their views as “moderate.” They hadn’t yet voted for Trump before, however, it was clear that they didn’t feel comfortable voting for Kamala. My father ended up voting for Kamala but my mother actually decided not to vote for the federal election (and voted republican for the rest of the ballot, except against Ted Cruz). When trying to convince my mother to vote Kamala, she couldn’t get past the idea of “hand outs.” I asked if it were Tim Walz running, if she would vote for him, and she had said no. She still agrees with anti-trump rhetoric but i am unsure if she regrets not voting federally. When i was unable to convince her to vote for Kamala, i found that as an indication that Kamala was in trouble with the “moderates”….which is quite ironic considering how hard she was reaching for the conservatives. Love your videos!
Another Texan here! My parents sound like the other way around, and my mom has moved significantly further to the left since 2015 and all the nonsense with our once/future president the first time around (and I am super proud of her). I didn't expect the state to turn purple or anything, but I was hoping we could see the back of Cruz, and I kind of hope he and Ken Paxton will eventually get tapped for federal positions (and then get fired) so they'll finally be out of our state. A girl can dream, I guess
She didn't have trouble with moderates, moderates are usually right leaning who want to enjoy left benefits. Your mothers choice of words is also very... interesting, she has a better resume than Trump, what hand out would she be receiving? Especially compared to Trump. Moderates are the absolute worst, they are the reason even MLK was giving up hope about racial progress.
I'm black and I don't like Obamacare. I had a contract job with no benefits. Got Obamacare and the price rose every year until I couldn't afford it even tho I rarely use health insurance. Even had the Obamacare rep tell me I can't expect the rates to not raise. You can't give insurance to some and .ake it unaffordable to some people in that same group.
you should look in to the actual construction of obamacare and what it had to go through before it was actually signed off on and still labelled “obamacare”
I am a trans women who lives in a blue state. Trump winning has made me push harder to transition. Making a lot of good strives with it. Think my goal now is to focus on self healing and improve myself. Keep doing volunteer work (I volunteer for a suicide hotline) and get more involved in local politics to keep my town being safe for trans and other minorities. It not a lot, but feel like the small things can carry weight in the long term.
As a progressive from Missouri let me play a little bit of devils advocate: Missouri has almost always voted for progressive policies and actually almost gave Obama our electorate (it was by like 0.8%) because St. Louis and KC obviously vote blue, and most people who are classically “rural Midwest” benefit from progressive policies. People who follow American politics closely probably realize it’s a no brainer, but get caught up in the idea of red or blue states. A lot of rural Midwest stereotypical red voters are not opposed to the idea of voting for a democrat, but don’t get effectively campaigned to like people in swing states are. Obviously unc is correct that racism/ sexism does play a role, but I think actually reaching out to some of these people would be way more effective than most Americans think it would be.
How can you say racism played a role when obama was prez for 8 years?? How can you say sexism played a role when hillary won the popular vote?? Kamala was a shit candidate thats why the dems got obliterated 😂
You had a fantastic senate candidate who did everything he could to frame populist and popular progressive policies in ways that wouldn't turn off Republicans, and you reelected a seditionist who doesn't even live in Missouri. I don't think the gun range gaffe explains how he lost.
I think her being a woman was a factor. All the trump voters I talked to just keep saying "she is just too far left" which I think is crazy because she ran such a central campaign. Many other voters said "prices were better under Trump" thinking he has some sort of plan to make things cost less. None of them think the Mass Deportations, abortion restrictions, or Tariffs are real. They thought Kamala was going to be the same old Democrat that says a lot and does nothing. It's sad
No we knew mass deportation was real and voted for it knowing he would actually do it, and we know that the president has no plan on even touching the abortion issue. That is completely up to each state and the president doesn’t personally have the authority to change that. Obama deported over 5 million illegals, protecting our borders is not some extreme right wing idea. People wanted change and they heard what Kamala said when asked what exactly she would different than Biden. Her being a woman or a black woman had no bearing on the vast majority of people that voted for Trump. They think about gender and race far less than the people who accuse them of voting against someone only because of those specific factors. The American people in general are just tired of bias mainstream media narratives and identity politics and they just want affordable gas and groceries and safe neighborhoods and they didn’t believe the democrat party would be the best choice for them.
I didn't vote Trump because she's "too far left" I voted for him because in 2016 when he was president the first time, he did a lot of good for the country
Here's the thing: SHE WAS GOING TO BE MORE OF THE SAME! How else do you think she wasn't when, on national TV, explicitly said that she wouldn't change a damn thing from how Biden ran things? I don't see how anyone thought she could've won.
Lmao do y’all ever look in the mirror, the whole democrat party has gone too far left, the last moderate democrat was Bill Clinton, plus we no longer have pro life democrats like Jimmy carter or Al gore
You are the first person I have heard office my thoughts on the day after the election. I said girl who came down to racism and misogyny, and all these people who we know are the very ones who couldn’t bring themselves to make the right choice for themselves. And here we are. Everyone will suffer for the next 4, except those who are rich/wealthy. But their families will Too
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Most immigrants rights orgs like the Immigrant Legal Resource Center will be hosting train the trainer series to disseminate information about how undocumented folks can protect themselves/what their rights are. Local ACLUs will probably do something similar around knowing your rights when interacting with police. I encourage folks to take the training and then host an info session with folks around you whether that is family or community members. We are stronger together!
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Covenant House here in New Orleans has been facing so much pushback from our own governor, who’s Republican and Trump endorsed. He’s put a war on New Orleans because we are obviously a blue/minority filled area. A big example of him being such a tyrant is he pushed for law enforcement to remove homeless people from tourist sites after telling Covenant House he would give them time to help gather folks in need. The reason he went ahead without them knowing is because Taylor Swift had a 3 night concert here. If anyone needs help and support, it’s them.
I can't believe FD Signifier would get political
Yeah first rage against the machine and now this! SMH /s
right I can’t believe it! 😂
utter woke nonsense
I'm sorry but this is like... The most logical video from him
Loved hearing FD guest on The Deprogram 😘✨
Unc be doing everything but dropping the diddy video
Why bother when we can watch the boondocks season 1 episode 2 it’s basically all the information we need
@Anthony-bw2lx bro Diddy is not beeing defended like RKelly was
@@milkboy195 he was until he was sued for rape
@@milkboy195 That episode was peak tho
@default9314 it is yeah
My disagreement with your thesis you stated at the start of the video about her campaign being pretty good due to her numbers being decently stable is this,
The Harris campaign had the data very early on that Biden couldn’t win, and the general public was not receptive to anything close to the Biden admin.
Knowing this, doubling down on being the status quo candidate was just doomed from the start. So I would say strategically, it wasn’t a well run campaign.
But this doesn’t really mean I meaningfully disagree with much of your other analysis. We have a racism and misogyny problem. And more importantly, we had a Biden problem. Biden running for re-election likely sealed the deal for us despite what we do.
I think the problem with the strategy of the campaign is that the democratic party is locked in by corruption in the choices they can make. They can't put someone who is actually progressive/alternative forward because it upsets the status quo / the money. I'm saying this without any right to speak as I'm European and don't know a lot about American politics. I'm just frustrated that they didn't put Bernie forward in 2016 and the reason I think they didn't is the above reason. It's the democratic committee that keeps things from changing because they are made and paid by the status quo.
THIS! I remember very clearly the discussions around the idea that Harris was Biden 2.0 and how if you were going to vote Biden then you should vote Kamala. The opposite was also true, if you weren't gonna vote for Biden, then you had no reason to vote Harris.
My same thoughts. Biden's approval rating was so low, no incumbent had ever won with that approval rating.
There was a TON of excitement when Harris took over.
I think the surge in donations and support when she first hit the scene undermines this thesis.
The excitement disappeared when people started realizing she was just running Biden's campaign.
That's why there was no Primary. The DNC knew the public wasn't going to choose her like that.
A worldwide cost of living and energy crisis, and Biden becomes the fall guy for it in the US. We were pretty much f'ed from the start. I believe a lot of incumbents and incumbent parties are being kicked out in a lot of places around the world. Well said.
What am I doing next? Nothing.
I'm disabled, have two small kids, and work 50hrs a week. I barely have time to be involved in any of the hobbies I enjoy. I think last week I had about 4 hours to do anything after my job and kids and dealing with my own failing health and my wife works almost as much as I do and has to keep up with the portion of housework that I physically can't do.
I wish i had time but that's the point. It's easier to control a population that doesn't have the time to engage because you're keeping them busy with needing money, health concerns, child care. If we could have one income and I wasn't struggling with chronic pain then we could be engaged in political discourse and that would make us in general harder to control.
Parenting should be considered work and parents should have less hours at a job
@davidmason3680 parenting is a ton of work. Since I work a hybrid job and my wife works from home she does more of it than I do and I absolutely cannot overstate how much she does.
That's kind of the point.
Like, I know Orwellian is thrown around way too much: but Winston pointed this out in 1984.
He envied the Proles because they were too beaten down and barely getting by. It's easier to tune out and sit down because you're so exhausted. They accepted it and would rather find distraction.
@@GregStraub42 I'm sure you both work incredibly hard if you both work and have kids. While we all love our kids, raising them takes a lot of time and effort and society should recognize that since it is imperative to have children for society to continue.
Working at a job less gives parents more time and energy for their children, each other and to not go insane from overwork.
It's our responsibility to check in on things that will have an effect on our lives
Damn, hitting us with an appetizer before Thanksgiving dinner?
He can’t hit us with a surprise drop like this 😭
New argument material for us to bring to the family table 🥰
my academic/uni thanksgiving communuity going to be eating good. We have been talking about HOW dem lost the election and I've been getting a lot of meals to bring to the table with FD's points.
Everyone is open to talk about racism but not enough about how to root it out.
@@DOCTOR.DEADHEADgood to see these arguments before thanksgiving. easier now to tear apart the claim that it wasn’t about the economy.
I AM STUFFED! help
As old white guy, I wish you were wrong. This has been my conclusion as well. Too many mean and/or stupid people in this country--we can't have nice things. Subscribed!
The sad fact that "What is a tariff??" was as frequently googled a question as " What does 'Brexit' mean??" was following the UK's own disastrous election a few years back is yet another example of many of how we truly are living in what future historians will refer to as "The Stupid Ages".
Fellas, is it stupid to ask questions?
@@BrickDaniels-qu7bz It is if you've already chosen before asking.
@@BrickDaniels-qu7bzNo, but it’s stupid to act first and ask questions later.
@BrickDaniels-qu7bz AFTER the test, or election? Yes.
Those are questions you wanna ask BEFORE the election, or test.
I mean. I'm glad they are googling shit. And I am chronically late, all the time. "Better late than never."
BUT GOOGLING BEFORE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER.
So, yes. In this case? Yes. Yes it is. Or at least, it would be smarter to Google them JUST A BIT EARLIER, BRO
That just proves the racism hypothesis. On the lead up to the Brexit vote, all the polls showed that Brexit was NOT going to pass....and the it did. How could this be? Well, in the aftermath, one of the better explanation was: Racism. Namely, that many people who supported Brexit and largely due to anti-immigration and racist sentiments didn't want to admit it to the pollsters....the fact that tariffs were of absolutely zero concern to these trump supporters PRIOR to the election shows that their support for trump was not based on policy.
Thanks for making this video. I absolutely agree. Much watch for people on the "left" trying to make sense. But more importantly, the task is not merely to make sense of what happened but to figure out what to do next!
My disagreement is - there's a difference between being *motivated* by racism, and being *affected* by racism. We've got to understand that nuance. Yes white folks, and some minority groups, were affected by racism and xenophobia. That's part of how Republican leaders manipulate their voters. But racism, when it's unconscious, is part of bias. Our biases don't *motivate* us, they affect our decision making as we try to accomplish some other goal - the main goal being survival.
The way to solve this problem isn't to tell/ train people to be less racist (which doesn't work), it's to get them into critical thinking and to build trust - which requires empathy. You're more susceptible to manipulation (and the irrationality of racism) when you're afraid, mistrustful of others, and feel your survival is at risk. Those are "vibes" based issues, connected to how you *feel* you are doing materially (the economy) and who you *feel* will fight for your interests (personality/ temperament of leaders). Psychology and political science research shows us this. If we only understand white voter behavior as a function of racism and misogyny, we'll miss the lesson. Made a short video on this and am putting out a longer analysis soon, if you're interested.
Good video! Glad I saw this.
I agree to an extent. But, people reared on fear don't care. You can't use empathy because that attacks their sense of self.
It's almost as if there was a theory about the critical role that race plays in our policies decision making, laws and history of our country. But that, alongside black history and LGBTQ+ trans identity was considered too woke and dangerous for white children (it makes them confront an upsetting history that isn't about them it's about the people affected, but the parents, Karens and law makers turn it about themselves).
So rather than have those difficult and important conversations, they just shut us out call us commies and continue listening to their echo chamber.
While it mostly runs in white conservative circles it also reaches out to the conservatives in black and Hispanic spaces. They are historically very religious and traditional, so they're more likely to also believe it's bad, or anti-american without really understanding it, and even if I say down long enough to break it down to my father and he didn't go into a tangent or stand proudly opposed would likely shrugg off the evidence cuz it just doesn't feel right.
Bruh... I'm not racist, but I voted Trump
@@mayo9738whether or not you are racist or not is largely irrelevant when the candidate who you decide represents your voice is, or does things that are, ultimately, racist.
As a non-American its baffles me how complicated your election system is.
It's intentional. Just like our tax code, it's designed to make sure only the people with extra time and money can affect the system
As an American, it baffles me how complicated our election system is.
The complication is intended it is to suppress the vote. To maintain the status quo.
It's really really really not.
@@userJohnSmithcomparatively. You don’t thinks complicated cause you live in it. Once you see understand other voting systems and how less complicated they are then you’d see
"They deserve it, but WE don't". Great take. If anyone is looking for safe meeting spaces, check your local libraries for conference rooms to reserve. They should be free of charge and most do not require a library card to use their facilities. Support for this last stand of 3rd spaces is more necessary than ever! Good luck to everyone in the trying times ahead.
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Kamala was incompetent trash,glad she lost..am black n voted trump
I would like to also mention how you should absolutely get a library card. This is how a lot of libraries receive their funding and at the end of the day money makes the world go around with these things. Any amount you can donate to public spaces goes a long way. Obviously money is not the end all be all but the resources help.
@@renboneify Dems evil nonstop political prosecutions of trump caught up with y'all...am black and voted for trump cause I was very angry what Dems were doing to him..the whole world saw clearly Dems fuckery..Dems evil plans backfired in their faces.... hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
@@renboneify Americans don't wanna be like Sodom n gommorow..Dems were selling a culture of immorality,ungodly behaviors and Americans rejected it......
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Thoughtful, intelligent discussion. No claims of being all-knowing or unhelpful high horse-isms.
Just a place to come & hash things out, come to terms with reality. But most of all, it is a safe space to get serious, strategize & mobilize. I'm so for it!
I also appreciate the even toned delivery & energy you exude. It makes facing up to & talking about these very tough subjects seem a little less... daunting.
Thank you, Sir.
I'm a tiny leftist dot in the deepest red county in Arizona. Many of my loved ones voted for Donald Trump because they thought Harris was lying to them. They thought Trump was the lesser of two evils. They unironically believe Fox News leans too far left. Our area has drastically filled with people "escaping Commie-fornia" in droves. You touched on the most frustrating part: on the down ballot propositions, most people agree. It's a matter of who we trust to keep our values. My friends and neighbors did not trust Harris. Some people are blatantly racist or sexist; most people have impossibly false information. It's so damn frustrating.
Edit: What am I going to do next? I'm still in my FAFO mode as the cabinet gets filled. For every announcement, I'm pointing out what these picks really mean. On a less bitchy note, I'm finding my people. We are small, but we exist, even in the darkest of red corners.
I grew up back and forth between NY and Alabama and I've come to realize that not every Red guy is Evil and not every Blue guy is a upstanding person. But if I had to choose which state benefited people with their policies more 10 outta 10 times its dem policies. Not all of them are perfect but the gap in opportunity between the two is insane
@@quebithegod2908 of course not every red guy is evil, they just vote FOR evil, which is still harmful, but not enough to treat them like a lost cause
@quebithegod2908 but why are all the blue states losing people?
“They thought Harris was lying to them”
That’s the roll that sexism actually played. Nobody who wants to avoid women presidents was ever going to vote for dems.
But a lot of “I’m not sexist, don’t be ridiculous,” people are more prone to falling for silly attack ads when the target being attacked is a woman.
property value in northern az (honestly one of the most beautiful places in the country) has just been getting crazier with the influx of rich california expats 😒 they seem to rot everything they touch
Her gender and race was always going to be a massive hurdle.
But once the Democrats named her the nominee Kamala needed to do two things effectively.
1. Completely distance herself from Joe Biden.
2. Run on economic populism and make the argument for those policies while being willing to die on that hill.
The more that I think of it her biggest problem above everything was that she ran as a politician in a time when politicians are the most hated people on the planet.
Trump runs the Republican Party because he’s terrible at politics not because he’s good at them(as well as him being overtly racist).
Agreed. The Dems spent so much time painting 45 as an outsider, thinking that was a winning strategy. They failed to realize that a chunk of the voting public was looking for exactly that. This cycle was bad for incumbents worldwide, so all that effort they put into making him look like an aberration only further cemented his status as the 'change' candidate.
Though I shudder to think what the pundits and consultant class would be saying now had she run a populist campaign and still lost. If you think these clowns are mask off now, imagine what that would have looked like. I think progressives would have been shut out for a generation had that happened. Anyway, I have no good answers at this point. Maybe I just need to stop looking at election AARs.
Not to mention she had 3 months to campaign while Trump has had 4 years plus the 6 years from before Biden
Look I did not vote for trump but how was he racist?? I remember when black folks loved trump. He was mentioned in over 100 rap songs. Was good friends with al sharpton, Mike Tyson, countless black realtors which he was seen with NUMEROUS times. You can't just take what you hear and believe it as truth... This is also another reason why Democrats lost Alot of ppl that has always been left leaning
@@theinvisiblewoman5709 Exactly. I think that you legitimately come up with 100’s of reasons why this was going to be an uphill battle. All of which are valid.
I would add that it's also because she's from the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area in California.
Don't get me wrong. I'm from Cali, I love Cali (moved away though, too expensive. I'd move back. I miss the party). And just watch some troll or bot hate on Cali just for mentioning the "Golden" State.
Thank you. As a community organizer who has been staying the course, I appreciate your take. Someone who I respect in my community said that the real work is boring, tedious, and not instagram-able. I can’t agree more. Let’s keep doing the work.
Thank you for your efforts ❤
Thank you! 💙
Signified, Thank you bro for using the correct language regarding the Palestinian genocide.
There's a great quote from Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson that summarizes our politics pretty well. A supporter supposedly said to Stevenson: "Governor, every thinking person in America will be voting for you". Stevenson's response was "Im afraid that won't do - I need a majority."
You want a majority? 80% of Americans want universal health care. 70% of Americans want to cut military aid to Israel. 80% of Americans want universal college.
Every primary Dems come up with a complicated cocktail of half-measures and hand-outs and subsidies then throw them out and blame progressives for making them talk about it. 😂
Democrats don't want an easy majority. They want consent to a practical 50.1% they can make money off of.
He wasn't smart enough to pursue the uneducated voter
The second time Eisenhower got elected was right after the suez crisis, so there's a chance that even God wouldn't have stopped him from winning that time around
Heres a better quote more apt to this election
“Every country has the government it deserves.”― Joseph de Maistre
@@serptimis1552 wow! worse
I’d like to share a small anecdote I experienced during and after election day.
I texted An acquaintance I know, asking their opinion on who they thought would win the election. he’s a Trump supporter and when I asked him, he responded “daddy Trump. No doubt in my mind”. I expressed that I didn’t feel the same, but we shall see. He quickly sent a message saying he didn’t want to further talk about the election and that he respects as a person. However, he swiftly deleted his message.
Next day I text him saying “that didn’t go down the way I thought it would”. He then said “take your L liberal” and then he blocked me.
What stuck out to me. What really,really bothered me about his reaction to trump winning was his suggestion that I lost and he won. We’re both Americans and if he truly thought trump was the better candidate why would he try to make me feel like a loser. Shouldn’t this be a victory for all Americans? Maybe I’m overthinking it but if I was him, knowing all the tension and fear over the result of the election, I would try to explain that America won, everything is gonna be fine, and that trump aims to help everyone.
But no. He gloated and blocked. People like him get a kick out of beating the others “team” no real desire for unity or healing.
I dont see great things in the future.
And it was because of that attitude that I didn't want him to win in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I didn't want his constituents to feel validated.
Their whole MO is to agitate. It makes them feel good.
I'm always confused when people rediscover Republicans every 4 years. My comp sci teacher screamed at me in class during the election results because I said Bush wouldn't win in 2000. They've always been like that.
Look, I have no dog in this fight, as I couldn’t in good conscience vote either candidate, but I doubt you would have been gracious either had Kamala won. The problem is that this country is run by the very margins of the political spectrum while the vast majority of Americans just want to put food on the table. The more we decentralize party identity, the quicker we can actually put candidates for the people in.
If you're not *for* the cult, you are *against* the cult
I think the biggest factor is - inflation was bad so we voted out the incumbent party. It's a global trend affecting basically every country with an election this year.
Yes I agree that was a big factor, she did not separate from Biden enough and acknowledge that despite the IRA and bidens work to decrease inflation, the rising cost of living and housing etc along with not much wage growth for most was still an issue for many many Americans who are economically struggling and vulnerable rn and frankly for the past couple decades! Mexicos the only country I’ve heard of whose incumbent party managed to win post pandemic and global inflation this past year , and they elected a progressive left wing Jewish woman as president! Their party seemed to have genuinely made some good material improvements for the average worker in mexico that many experienced was broadly pretty an economically populist term and campaign she ran on with emphasis on universal policies and policies aimed at building more public sector housing for the most vulnerable of folks in their country and it seemingly worked. Granted they also didn’t have a old man with dementia as an incumbent like we did with Biden so they could actually message about their wins and future progressive promises where Biden just didn’t and Kamala didn’t choose to emphasize a lot of the more progressive economic policies their admin did with the NLRB and FTC like I believe she should’ve and didn’t promise to build off of those successes and do more that would be more immediately beneficial for broad swaths of the population in the US. Lots of things had to line up in my opinion for this election to go to the dems and they just didn’t , most importantly being Biden choosing to run again at the start I think that was a massive mistake of dems to not push him aside earlier but who knows how much better Kamala’s campaign would’ve been if given more time , if maybe would’ve helped but maybe wouldn’t have its hard to say bc so much of the initial momentum seemed to fade as she outlined more policies and messages that just weren’t that inspiring to many and dropped some that were genuinely popular (price gouging being one that was brushed aside pretty quickly despite being popular)
Sorry that was long winded but my main point is I think there is stuff to learn from mexicos recent election of a woman head of state and their party’s ability to defeat the incumbent disadvantage so many other parties globally dealt with in their elections! A Jewish woman obviously a different dynamic than a Black woman and isn’t a clear cut comparison but the alternative to figuring out what the substantive issues with Harris’ campaign in order to do better next time around is to accept that Americans r too racist and misogynistic to elect a Black woman or woman as president in general and the dems choose to never give any woman a shot at the presidency again for at least a while and that is NOT the lesson I want the dems to take from this election, and am genuinely scared and concerned that that is what they’ll take away from this if the campaign isn’t analyzed by the content of it and it’s broad political message and not just who the face and identity of it was , despite that being an obvious factor that effects how ur message and candidate is perceived by the public and certain groups, it’s not everything and prejudice and bias can be overcome and be less of a significant factor in ppls decision making if the policies and vision outlined is strong and appealing enough to the masses (imo)
Kamala got more white voters than Biden. Latina women and black women had a massive drop in voter turnout.
Racism and sexism doesn't make any sense. Women of color cost Kamala the election.
@@somekatsthe thing about Mexico is that Obrador was a popular leader, unlike Biden. Sheinbaum wasn't necessarily well known as much as it was that her party was popular and the right in Mexico is effectively non existent.
Untrue, Mexico's incumbent party won, decisively, with a woman leading the ticket! It turns out that if you do things like raise the minimum wage every chance you get people react positively to that. Wild how that works.
I think you missed the mark on a lot of this. Obviously take this with a grain of salt, but i live in a Trump county in California. I'm a cashier and been doing near nonstop personal polling for like the last 2 and a half months. The amount of non voters and recently turned Trump voters who said that Bidens bad economy was the main reason behind their decision was virtually everyone. Dont get me wrong there's a ton of racism but thats always been there. Kamala had nothing that the average person can stand by other then abortion protection, and even that arguement was partially mitigated by Trump. I consistently heard about how Kamla admitted Trump was right, and largely an element of fear. Trump speaks to a lot of peoples fears about economic uncertainty and Kamala outright ignores them. This was always going to be an uphill battle because of race and gender but she decided to try doing it with her eyes closed.
The answer isnt to stop platforming women and poc, the answer is to start actually messaging for things that people care about, that speaks to their material conditions. They want to hear about jobs, affordable housing, being able to go to the doctor if they have a medical emergency. And if they get called a commie or a socialist make them look stupid, ask them if its wrong to reduce unemployment, or to solve homelessness, to make it so that families don't have to go into massive debt to save their childs life. You have to have a message that resonates and this video serves largely as an excuse for Democrats to point as to avoid any personal failings. Yes there is nuance but the your own framing simplifies it.
Saying this as a big fan, probably didnt get my point across right, im on my bathroom break and gotta get back bye
what you said about progressive policies vs progressive politics damn i never thought about that but youre so right.
This is why Bernie was so popular in 2016. He is an independent who pushes progressive policies. So long as he doesn't have that D next to his name, he'll always do better than any Democrat or Republican.
@@wh1pla5h Bernie lost the nomination though, famously twice.
@@gee8419because dems pushed him out and fucked him over. Thats not his fault.
@gee8419 yeah because he was running under the Democratic ticket and we all know how the DNC felt about him
@@gee8419 that was because the Democratic establishment didn't want him. In 2016 and in 2020, he had the most votes for the primary until all of the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden (and Hillary) even though majority of the people were on Bernie's side. Then the media pushing the "he's too old" or the "he would never defeat trump, we need a centrist" narrative was damaging. Even though all of the evidence showed that Bernie would have beaten trump, the establishment didn't care.
Would have definitely preferred a third Grover Cleveland term but here we are
Man that would have truly been the funniest option.
Talk about non sequential!
You wrote him in too!?!
He's certainly old enough.
@@joel.lallier barely...
The fact that people talked about Latino men more than white women as a minority voting strongly against their own interests really shows how people will fight for anything for no reason
I find it hilarious that people still think all Latino cultures are the same, or that they're all undocumented.
Tell a Dominican that he's the same as a Guatemalan. I hope you have good dental coverage.
Latinos often hate undocumented immigrants because they "skipped the line" and give documented immigrants a bad name.
It's far more complex an issue than "all brown people should vote the same cuz they're all the same."
Or white men, for that matter, but people aren't ready to talk about that, as this election proved so poignantly.
How is it against Latinos interest?
Doesn't white woman always vote mostly like that? If there is a group of women who can have some benefit from conservatism is white women.
@@psychopompous3207 who do you think goes in the camps? And even if you're "one of the good ones" you eventually end up there anyway. I grew up around the ones that Trump's really "speaking to" with his rhetoric and they don't care about "illegal vs. legal" actually, they might say that publicly but not in their own groups (when there's no Latin MAGAs around).
The frustrating thing about trying to deal with these people is that they will jump through impossible hoops to say they aren't racist. I'd bet a good portion of them actually believe they are not racist but there votes are louder than their voices and I'm tired of hearing them
Just because someone didn’t vote for what they view to be one of the worst candidates to ever run, does not make them racist. Not even slightly. This rhetoric and delusion is what is driving the country apart
You don’t see that your blind hatred for people you don’t even know is more damaging to the country? They say they aren’t racist usually they aren’t? I’m a black man who voted for Trump. I did it because I have family in the military. Harris’ endless support for Ukraine would’ve had my brother and family in WW3. Harris outright denied having any personnel an active battlefield as my brother sends letters every month from one. Harris is a bullshitter who I’m very glad lost
@@aubm713a vote for trump is most certainly a racist vote
@@joebarton4947 lazy ass way of avoiding any responsibility there.
@@aubm713Well, half of em' are.
As someone who went to school for political science, works in politics, and is a published researcher/data nerd who has been closely following the available data on the election... you nailed it. Your analysis is excellent and I'm going to be sharing this all over.
maybe you dont like her, but what do you think of shoeonhead's video on why trump won?
you should get your head checked, get a refund on the degree and become a janitor...because "it was racism" is the dumbest possible interpretation for what just happened.
A Black man already ran for president on a populist platform and won....TWICE
DJT ran on unleashing energy, liberty from stifling DC beaurocratic control, lowering the price of groceries and gas, ending the foreign ww3's (plural) that are brewing and rescuing the 300,000 trafficked kids missing in america tonight.
Kamala refused to lay out a platform, dodged any interview that wasn't embarrassingly canned, botched alot of those anyway, and blew a 1,500,000,000$ in a couple months paying other millionaires to twerk.
c'mon be real....
@@zkme2734 TBH, never heard of her, I'll go look it up.
@@zkme2734 I'm not the person you're asking, but I think her analysis is definitely one of the most ideological videos from her. I think she has a good point that Republicans are becoming the party of the working class while Democrats are becoming of the elite. But her solution is essentially to make the Democrat party socialist and populist, specifically showing admiration for Huey Long, is interesting though worth more consideration.
I agree with her that identity politics is overemphasized to the point of alienating voters by focusing on symbolic gestures and on elite minorities. I think Huey Long needs more analysis from me before I'm fully on board with imitating him, specifically in how he still controlled Louisiana while he was a senator, because while populism is an inherent part of how the republic works it shouldn't lead to them being able to defy the restrictions of government or the rule of law, both of which Donald Trump and Huey Long are guilty of. Maybe just imitate some parts
@@watching7721 strangely enough, the identity politics was a talking point of the right - most democrats didn't talk about race/gender that much. Every ad here in Texas was all about trans issues - and they were all republican candidates spreading lies/fears about gender politics. Not one ad from a democrat was about any of this. The GOP has effectively learned how to scare their followers into submission....it's sad.
I think you're largely right and that profoundly sucks, though as somebody from outside the US I urge you to consider that fact that GLOBALLY every single incumbant party dealing with the aftermath of COVID has been voted out of office this year. If you look at this as a global trend, it becomes apparent that working people (not the asset-owning class) feel that they are finacially and socially worse off than they were 4-5 years ago, and lack a defined understanding of macro-economics / the situation outside their home country which is required to see this is a worldwide issue; as opposed to hardship being caused by the actions of their own government which is far more simple to conceptualise.
When interviewed people talked about gas and eggs, as if the president can control those things. Its exactly the same everywhere else that had an election this year. Low information voters make the majority of the electorate, and the average person simply doesn't understand economics.
It was just the worst year on re ord to be an incumbant government, real shame that it's the year Trump ran again.
Seriously, people think this is the Soviet Union and the government decides the price of goods. No, it's generally big business that decides the price of everything, overwhelmingly Republican Americans controlling basically everything in the world subtly.
I was honestly waiting for FD to acknowledge this point and I feel like he became a bit myopic on his own point.
It isn’t racism or sexism when the candidate sucked hard. Kamala did too many things terribly wrong as she wasn’t even the candidate of the people. She was purely an establishment pick
Thank you for pointing this out. This is more or less what I said in my own gigantic response. On that note, love Robert Reich and his videos.
I just cannot wrap my head around how people don't understand or remember that the problems with inflation started because of the pandemic, during the end of Trump 1.0 . I don't think it takes an advanced degree or anything like that; it just takes having a decent memory. And nobody is thinking about the long-term; Mr. "Only I Can Fix It" will hopefully not be running again in four years, and I wonder what the people who voted for him think is going to happen when (1) he renegs on his promises (just like 2016-2020), (2) fails to get anything done except keep people so distracted by the antics and chaos that nobody notices, (3) guts the federal government via Project 2025, and (4) does something crazy so he won't have to leave office, again--not to mention what might happen if another serious crisis like COVID happens. Eek.
Hi FDSignifire, I’m reaching out from Mozambique, where elections on October 9th have been followed by delays in announcing results due to alleged fraud. This is a critical moment, and we need international attention to pressure our government for transparency and fairness. I know your channel doesn't tend to focus on African Politics, but Your voice could make a difference. Thank you!
Maybe if I comment it'll be more noticed and someone can help. Sorry I can't do much but this I hope someone can help.
@@adilsonventura9571 would be good for FD to branch out and cover more international topics.
❤❤❤ Hope he see this.
Based
im Canadian, far from Africa, and I am not Black.
But I am with you on this, and lot!
We get so much more American content here, but I need to be focused on my own area and do better to fight for transparency here. We already have to many who want to copy Trump's play book, and our liberals aren't doing near enough to stop them.
I wish our third party option was stronger.
But at least we can push for transparency
Really enjoy your content. You're very well spoken and I can appreciate your views. Albeit I don't agree but still I like the way you present your views. Continued success to you and you gained a subscriber. God Bless
Basically people literally DO NOT CARE what a person stands for, what their views are, what their ideas are, people just vote based on "vibes" and I honestly blame the intenet for accelerating that trend
People care.
What's wrong with voting on instinct? It's better than voting with dice.
I agree but I find it weird that they like this particular "vibe", he has the aura of a clown replacing the national anthem with him farting into a megaphone while laughing.
Yep, you had the same people in AOC's district who voted for Trump AND AOC. She asked and they alls answered that they both seemed "authentic" and "real"
It's all vibes and maybe even because Trump and AOC use social media frequently and so there's lots of people who built parasocial relations with them.
If that's not proof that people are getting lazier and lazier in their assessments of candidates and don't read policies and just vote on vibes, I don't know what will.
At this point, the Democrats are better off choosing a figurehead President who can "look presidential"/"look authentic" and have a parasocial relationship with the regular idiots while the Vice President is chosen based on actual competence and policies. Might as well accept that the majority of the population is stupid and play accordingly.
Only one person had a vibes campaign and she lost. Your premise is false
@@irondragonmaiden ive come to this conclusion as well. could get both in Gavin Newsome tho, or along your thought...John Cena?
Racism and sexism absolutely played a big part here, but I’m not certain that a cishet white dude running an otherwise identical campaign would’ve beaten Trump either. I’ll offer an alternative theory, or at least a complementary one:
The many failings of neoliberalism are apparent to everyone, and the average American voter is fed up with the way our economy has been run for the last 40-50 years. Even if they don’t have the language to describe the problem, they feel the pain of it. Trump offered a narrative that validated this pain, and painted immigrants and urban cultural elites as the villains he would go after. Democrats on the other hand basically said everything’s fine we’re just gonna keep doing what we’ve been doing.
Even though Trump’s narrative is racist, and even though he likely will not do anything to address the real problems we need to deal with, at least he acknowledged the fact that the status quo is broken. Democrats refuse to admit that, and it’s a big reason they lost.
Yep. If they had adopted some of Bernie's platform after '16 maybe this could have been avoided... but it goes back to the Clintons and the Reagan-era shift into neoliberalism, as you say.
When asked about the rise of the far right in Europe, voters said they were willing to give them a shot because they need change. In the one hand this is the essence of "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" since the default for 'different' is far right, but in the other hand it reflects the point you're making that people are realising something isn't working. Luckily in France they did end up going to the left instead of to the right.
Yes yes yes!!! Thank you for wording this better than I'd be able to. Trump's evil superpower has always been the ability to flaunt norms in a system that all Americans uniformly hate. Dems have been running things as if it's business as usual (endless funding for the military-industrial complex, always talking about the mythical "center") but Americans are clearly fed up with the polite shittiness of our government. Clearly Trump is an insane alternative to select, but it makes perfect sense to me that people would be willing to try literally any other option when Kamala says that "there is not a thing that comes to mind" that she'd change about how Biden has been running things. It's like the old expression, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
While all that is true, I would like to add a perspectives for consideration:
First, neither the Biden presidency nor the Harris campaign are as “pro status quo, everything is fine” as many people seem to believe. Politically, sure, they act like fossils who still think they’re living in the 00s, but in terms of economic policies, they have been vocally supportive of unions and increased taxation on the rich, both are excellent executive first steps towards addressing systemic issues. Although they should be fairly criticized for leaving truly game changing works like single-payer off the table, actual economic policies under Biden have been surprisingly pro middle and working class, at least more so than the D has been in decades, and as undeveloped as Harris’s plans were, her campaign has stuck to promising the same trend throughout.
But frustratingly, these stances are not widely perceived by the public. Because the rating chasing (or just plain captured) media do no dabble in boring policy talks. Worse yet, it’s also because D’s themselves have to keep it somewhat quiet to appease their donors (same thing with Biden’s student debt forgiveness actions).
This! Kamala, in my eyes, ran an effective campaign and did everything right. Every "quality" that men like in other men, strong mindedness, leadership skills, integrity, we find more in Kamala than in Trump.
It's just how it is, Trump's rallys were open therapy sessions where he was whining at his people about issues hat hardly exist, consequences of his own bad actions such as his court cases.
She even won the debate against him, which no one really expected to happen. She engaged with the right wing talking points to actually speak to their issues, her only fault is her gender. I am not saying she is a perfect human, but when you are willing to hire a washed up towel over someone who is actually showing up, then I have to assume the qualifications were not a decding factor.
Kamala, was in some sense, more of a man than Trump, and people could tell, but they don't care...because she will never shed organs or colour, and therefore she has failed at having either of the qualities the country truly cares about.
Economy, Immigration, Border Security.
All of which Kamala was actually doing something about, so people should have voted for her
@bucket9144 she said she was going to do the same as biden... what you mean... thats horrible.. this why I didn't vote for either... jesus 😂😂
@@openworld6337 no she didn't. The closest thing possible she said to that was that she supported his decision to pull out of Iran.
You know what Biden tried to do? Pass a bill that would make our border stronger with more guards and better equipment. You know who told Congressmen not to pass that bill? Donald Trump.
In other words, Trump DIRECTLY harmed our border and immigration issues.
As for the economy, Trump's entire plan is... Tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on the American people.
@@bucket9144 This would be a good argument if Harris and Biden didn’t hobble along letting thousands come in, letting civilians get killed/trafficked and drugs let in BEFORE they pushed that border bill.
It’s a problem Biden created (80+ executive actions removing trumps border policy as soon as he got in office), then proceeded to sit and wait for things to get worse so they can play hero 3 years later. Sorry, I’m not voting for that 4 more years of fake problem solving. Harris never made separation from Bidens policies outside of saying “WELL FIRST OF ALL IM NOT JOE BIDEN”
The real question is, how the fuck can a state with 49% voting one way and 50% voting the other way (and 1% of votes for independents and small parties) DEVOTE 100% OF THEIR ELECTORAL VOTES TO A SINGLE CANDIDATE?!! You Americans need proportional representation! (We need it here in Canada too.)
I personally appreciate both sides I hear of with this argument. America is seen as a "constitutional republic", or rather, a collection of states. All of them can decide how their electoral votes are tallied up, for example, in Nebraska, there is a statewide electoral vote and an electoral vote for it's subsequent districts, this is the same in Maine. Basically, In my opinion, I don't mind the current system as laid out by the founding fathers, but I agree that there should be some key changes.
you are essentially saying just go with a popular vote and mob rule, no, we are not doing that
Well, we tried to chop off our candidates by percentage of the vote, but we had trouble getting people to run....
@@tbewin1z143 you have a popular vote and a mob rule. It’s just that the electoral college skews it.
It should go by county
"the double standards for women become quadruple standards for black women" is said so perfectly
It's insane, just ask Tulsi Gabbard lmao.
I don't even think it's high standards or double stands. You have two out of touch politicians who are both unpopular to their base. Trump is hyped and you got the misguided Maga following him that I think are more the minority. Trump won 2016 because of coverage and bombast, Biden won because he was not Trump, and 2024 the common perception I've been hearing is that a lot of people have kind of stopped caring like the independents but more vote on vibes instead of policy.
Yeah there's racism, sexism, and xenophobia but the larger issue is that most people are struggling and are not feeling heard.
@@sunphoenix1231 Trump is extremely popular with his base. And over 50% of voters now.
@vyor8837 voting for a candidate isn't the same as understanding and actively supporting them. The environment to actively encourage meaningful political engagement is nonexistent. Especially with having to bring down the polarization.
That barrier needs to be crossed before racism, xenophobia, or sexism can be addressed.
@@sunphoenix1231 none of those are a problem. I didn't vote for him because I hated Kamala for what she was born as, I voted for him because I hate her for what she wanted to do.
“The difference between progressive policies and progressive politics.”
This hits the nail on the head. On policy positions, the electorate actually overwhelmingly agreed with Kamala’s policies. Even amongst Republicans. The policies weren’t the problem. It was definitely the politics. The perception that Kamala was either more of the stagnant status quo where people are currently suffering in a very anti-incumbent era or the perception that Kamala was too far-left because………..she is a black woman 😑
no, it's the opposite. The policies weren't progressive enough.
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Not in the minds of the voters. And it doesn’t change that of the two options Harris’s policies were definitely more progressive and more people favored them.
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Aka the Israel conflict
@@BenLee-xj7zm I know it's like a big deal to post about it and pretend you care for Instagram, but I don't really feel like the Israel-Palestine thing had nearly the effect people imagine it did. It's big on College Campuses, it's pretty much nothing everywhere else. Talking about the economy and quoting stock market figures, talking about jobs numbers without considering they might be higher because people absolutely can't live without one or more jobs, those were things that actually impacted her results. Whether or not American bombs are hitting someone innocent a world away? We haven't had a year without that in decades.
The unfortunate truth is a majority don't vote based on actual policies they vote based on vibes, and Harris' vibe just didnt really hit with anybody even democrats. She felt like she didn't have anything to offer in a time where where we needed a viable alternative.
Thank You Brother Man!! You said about 5 things I been trying to say for weeks! 😊I appreciate you Big Time!!!
all i'm gonna say is it felt like the final nail in the coffin when i heard kamala say there's "not a thing" she'd do differently than biden.
The democrat party is clueless right now. That's a huge issue.
@@markmalone3025 So's the Democratic Party. They're both out of touch.
they're so clueless yall had to say it twice
It’s crazy how many of them are going to racism and misogyny. If they don’t get it together and really look at why she lost they are going to continue to lose. Kamala is the vp of the current administration, majority of Americans say they are worse off than 4 years ago yet she said she would change nothing, that’s a pretty big slap in the face to Americans but no it’s definitely the underlying racism that she lost.
@@markmalone3025they’re not clueless at all man, they know exactly what they’re doing, they’ve been in this field for decades, they understand the consequences of the choices they’re making, they just don’t care because they’re living comfy no matter what, they’ve adopted the right wing way of thinking which is dog eat dog
Hopeless people will either be radicalized by the right or left, not by moderates or centrists
"radicalized into a centrist" seems like an oxymoron but it's not
@@idontwantahandlethoughonly when you are rich and support the status quo
As a radical centrist hope is nothing more than a lie just like hopeless is lie from nihilism and radical is nothing more than a ideal crash out for a simple solution that forgets the roots
@sumitkataria7492 I personally know working class people who are very committed moderates because they've been convinced that the reason things don't change for the better is a lack of compromise and over polarization. A lot of people get their information from bad sources and barely know what right or left mean. To be clear, I agree with your main point, that discontent by and large does generate more radical positions among the general population, one way or another. But centrism definitely isn't solely appealing to the wealthy, mainly because the wealthy spend a lot of money to sell it to people
@@sumitkataria7492 the average voter doesn't understand the first thing about business, let alone macro economics. They respond to populist rhetoric, not policy (unless that policy is sold to them in a big, flashy, populist way)
One of my theories is Alarm Fatigue. The previous election was full of alarm bells and pointing towards fascism repeatedly to say “we can’t repeat what Germany did”. Outreach went far and wide to every voter, communicating how important it was to vote out this nightmare. My first thought within the relief at the time was that I hoped democrats actually put a lot of work in, because there was no way they could run on that again. Not only that, but I was absolutely LIVID that they would likely use abortion rights AGAIN.
If I was some disconnected voter, and someone showed up at my door every four years to shout that the consequences would be dire, I’d like slam the door in their face.
I still voted for Kamala, but you’re right in the dems basically holding us hostage. It’s a terrible feeling, and I suspect some voters could not stand that reality.
She barely even mentioned abortion which was stupid. Repealing roe V wade was an extremely unpopular decision outside of zealous bigots. Abortion rates remain the same and yet women are risking death from pregnancy complications. Harris barely brought it up in between constantly hammering away on border security. Not enough racist democrats for a make believe problem to cinch it for her.
I completely agree with this. If every election is the most important election ever and they did nothing about Trump the first time, it stops meaning anything, if you aren't paying attention.
@@lmac40762The problem is how are the Democratic Party any different from the Republican Party light. When I listen to the democrats promise and never deliver but to the top 1% how are they different. More inclusive until they are not. Where is the hate for the enemy. Where is the vindictive need to go after Christian propaganda and hate groups. 15 million people did not vote says it all.
Exactly! It starts to look like the boy who cried wolf, and eventually, nobody cares anymore.
they've been saying this election is the most important one of our lives since at least 1972
This election got me to sign up for a few left wing newsletters and introduction events. I’m tired of sitting here and not putting my money where my mouth is. I’m going to support the causes I believe in with more than just a few bucks
Hell yeah! I’d also recommend taking care of the people around you. Practice empathy, listen to the folks who ask for help and encourage others to do the same. We are all on edge, defensive and tired (because of the election or not) and money will only get us so far. So it’s good to think about how to help your day to day life.
Hell yeah!
Dislike for Biden was a big part of her loss as well, and she didn't do anything to differentiate herself from him.
Yeah.
And many people even argued _she_ was the ”real mastermind” behind his presidency (since Biden’s dementia and all that)…
So we basically shot ourselves in the foot for that!
Exactly we had 4 years under his leadership and he hasn’t really done anything to stop the corporations from stealing from us through their price gouging, Lina Khan is doing shit sure, but what has Biden really done other than appoint a few competent people in certain positions
And their dislike for Biden was for things that weren't even his fault. Their dislike for Biden was for him being "too woke and too left." Their dislike was kind of nonsensical.
While being his (Biden) vice president do you actually think she could distance herself from the current president? You don't make sense besides Harris was just as disliked or more so by the same people who disliked Biden.
@ Also that he was ”too old”.
As a white audience member, I love the way you explained white people downvoting universal wellfare systems. It's horrible to think about but necessary to educate people on. you do good work man.
Stop simping for black people that hate you just for being white.
I mean as another white guy who's "woke" it's not surprising. There are stories of community pools closing rather than desegrigating after the end of Jim crow. They rather that no one could enjoy the pool.
I mean as another white guy who's "woke" it's not surprising. There are stories of community pools closing rather than desegrigating after the end of Jim crow. They rather that no one could enjoy the pool.
It's definitely a sobering truth I've been having trouble reconciling in the weeks after the election results. As another white audience member, I try to give compassion and empathy to all people and try to give the benefit of the doubt people aren't so bad. I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do with the convincing evidence not only are my "fellow" countrymen not nearly as progressive, forward thinking, or unified as I might like to hope, but actually many are far more backwards than we should be and are just bigots, who will froth at the mouth and shut down at the accusation. I know, I know, it's not entirely their fault, we live in a society and system designed to indoctrinate us with imperialist, hyperindividualist, white suppremacist, and patriarchal ideals from darn near birth, but part of me does wonder how so few people can see it for what it is and how it leaves me feeling like I live in a world not meant for me, where I believe in freedom and looking out for my fellow humans, all of them, of all colors and sexes and genders and sexualities across all continents.
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This is a really solid take. Any "leftist" who voted for Trump in "protest" is not a leftist. There's just absolutely no overlap there. Vote for the Green Party in protest. That's not meaningless. But a vote for Donald Dump is not a protest vote. It's a gesture toward evil and harm.
It is meaningless. Jill Stein is funded by Putin its been proven. A vote for the Green Party is a vote for Trump
Trump only picked up 2 million new voters. Kamala losing 7 million wasn't a bunch of leftists switching to the right or right-wingers moving to the right. It was people who hated every candidate.
Especially since he's going to get 2 more supreme court picks cementing a Maga court for decades. So even if you do get a good person in the white house next time, the court is going to be undoing as much progress as possible.
There should be no discussion needed about this I feel like I’m going insane 😭 Like I feel like there’s so much that needs to go wrong in someone’s head for them to view voting for Trump as anti establishment in any way and then go and call themself a leftist lol give me a break
Probably people who were hoping for the GLORIOUS REVOLUTION (that they have not prepared for, nor have put systems in place to protect our most vulnerable) to come. I saw a lot of people thinking we deserve Trump, that it will FINALLY wake up the Dems or drive the average person to tear everything down. Wishful thinking. Its basically wanting a rapture for the non-religious
I appreciate you and the work you do.
Separately, I have agreed with this take from the moment the results were announced.
As for what I'm doing next: I have a string of medical appointments coming up (chronic illness + gender transition), and I'm doing my best to get through them all as quickly as I can. I want to reach a point where I'm healthy and supported enough to get through the day consistently before I re-start engagement in humanitarian efforts.
I connected with my high-school best friend, who is a white man living in Arizona, and attended to a trump rally in August just before the election. I've never known him to have issues with queer people or PoC, as we both played sports and grew up in the Portland OR area, and I talked with him about my trans girlfriend. He has a upper-middle class upbringing, with well-off parents who would happily support him if he had financial struggles, but joined the army back in 2009, and retired from it 4-5 years later with a disability.
His support for Trump was on his celebrity and a belief that he would be more economically advantaged under Trump. He complained about gas prices as he owned a full-size pickup that he bought under the first Trump administration He was low information as far as policy goes, and spoke of how much he enjoyed the 'Show' of a Trump rally. His thought process didn't seem that deep, but he was committed to voting.
Yes. We need guys like him to win an election. Fox news got him. We can get him next time with tik tok
I am gonna guess he didn't make it back up to the upper middle class status he grow up for, without the government welfare payments, of course. I am center right and by all means I should voted for Trump, but I know how bad tariff is in an already inflation plagued country so I couldn't do it, well I need to consider my own economic interests, you know, the real one.
Exactly what I saw here. The Central Valley of California has a dedicated conservative population, and of everything I've heard about Trump, they all think that he'll take better care of the economy and make more jobs. They don't like the idea of immigrants taking those jobs, and they don't like taxes. That's about it. All of the horrible rhetoric, all of the fascist talking points, all of the sexism, racism, crimes, and embarrassing actions are either completely ignored or not even known about. They've been lied to for years now, even before Trump.
I'm a high school teacher, my students come from unflinching Trump households. Many of them were 5 when Trump was first elected. All of his worst stuff was at a time in their lives when they couldn't engage with it, only what their parents said. And that part they were old enough for was the pandemic, the lies, the antivax flood, Ukraine, and Palestine. They are convinced that the Dems stealing the election is a known fact. They believe every talking point because, well, it's coming from their parents. It's so disheartening to see these otherwise wonderful, hilarious, curious kids be indoctrinated so young. I legitimately don't know what to do about it.
That's very revealing!
I grew up in Portland! I try to explain to others that the racism in the PNW is insidious compared to the south which is overt (especially now that they have a candidate that will allow them to express it more).
There were always racists who would always have voted for trump, who did in the past, and were going to again
But then there were those conned into thinking trump is going to change the prices of everyday items, and they made the difference
Oh the prices will change, they just won't be happy when it goes in the wrong direction. Time of people to learn how tarrifs work, and why 90% of the time they don't make anything better
@@JackdotC and even if Trump backs down from doing tariffs (the fact he's been on about doing tariffs for decades now means that it's extremely unlikely), doing a mass deportation will also crash the economy
He's literally using the strategy Hoover did during the Great Depression. The one that made everything worse.
But, if the average American knew about and understood that history, we wouldn't be here rn.
It's so funny how you guys view the world to me. As a Texan from a small town of mostly whites and Latinos I can say you're pretty off base. The main reason people vote for trump here is because the democrats hate us. For example you all think that was a win when Biden forgave student dept but it pissed off every blue collor worker I know. They didn't get offered affirmative action or have money for college so most didn't go. Then Biden according to them "uses their tax dollars to pay for some entitled brats education." Oh and those college educated people continually mock and condescend to them on top of that. Oh not mention the only person in your party who actually cared about us Bernie Sanders got kicked out, so a fucking Clinton could take his place. Most people think it was about gays or race or something but that shit was just something people could point to in order to show how dumb the democrats were but it was not the main reason no matter how much you wanna believe that
Oh and the Latinos and blacks who voted for trump are not as dumb as yall think they knew the border was open so big corporations could get wage slaves who would indirectly affect their upward mobility.
Perfect. Sent to me, 75 Jewish Man in California by my daughter who's 34 and lives in Brooklyn and I'm really glad I got to see this. After the holiday I will send this to all the people I went to college with.
Amazing this comment deserves 271k likes in 5 days since 6 million would be impossible I’m very sorry for I wish you the best I have a 14 year old younger brother and an 88 year old grandpa who’s also Jewish shalom
We live in Idiocracy
@@Dovah689follow your leader
@@Dovah689 You forgot to slip 109 in there somewhere bud, do better.
she endorsed a genocide she needed to lose
Bro! You are my new guy!! Very well said and spoken keep up the good work.🙏👏
Thank you *so much* for this video. The sooner we admit these are the problems, the sooner we can start to address them. I've only had about 5 moments of hope since the election. This is one of them.
The sad fact is, nobody has done enough. I havent done enough. I am currently endeavoring to do more and better. I hope it is not too late.
Also, of course you got heated. People are out here being foolish. Your anger is a gift.
You can't out flank the candidate, she put her finger in the eye of her base, her middle finger
I did enough! I voted for Trump!
Its not sexism or racism, it was a terrible candidate nobody voted for and 4 years of bad policies. The lack of accountability is shocking. You're telling me the majority of Latinos hate women and black people? Wake up or you will keep losing.
She was an awful candidate tagged in at the 11th hour. How did you think she was going possibly win? She and Biden are both wildly unpopular as the country head in a direction no one likes besides the elites who tells you it's rain when they wiz on you. She ran a terrible campaign and deserved to lose accordingly. She lost to popular vote, so not like some select section of the country voted against her to cause her defeat, she got dragged by all walks of life.
@@christopherc8563 Not only that, she told them they were losers, as she changed her mind about all of her previous "positions". Kamala Chameleon should be her walk on song.
I think a big difference between Kamala and Biden that you ignored is WHEN they ran. One after 4 years of Trump and a mismanaged pandemic, the other after 4 years of ineffective liberal governance with rising commodity prices.
But as he said, she generally pulled bigger numbers than him on the swing states. Trump just did better than he did in 2020
That is a very important piece of context. The incumbent lost each time.
@@starlydonati2008 Well Harris wasn't the incumbent though.
@@Sephiroso. She may as well been, considering she wouldn't distance herself from Biden and even went so far as to say that nothing came to mind as far as what she would've done differently from him over the last 4 years.
Biden wasnt ineffective though..You do your homework on what he achieved, he was highly effective. Even numerous bipartisan bills that helped thousands of households. The problem I see is republicans have been tweaking their messaging for decades while the dems have been "playing nice" and letting the misinformation spread. While conservatives squawk about bias in mainstream media, all I saw was Trump. We know by now theres no such thing as negative media so when people see him constantly thats how they vote. Not to mention how poorly his court cases were handled. NO WAY it should have taken 3 years to get the ball rolling..
"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood".
based 😊
Fun fact: Ulysses S Grant's father lived with the Brown family in Ohio.
BASED AND UNIONPILLED
Oooh who’s an edgy boy? Who’s an edgy boy? Yes you are! Oooh what a hot take! Your statements are so controversial! What an edgy boy!
@@ChristopherEvansJaguarX305 John Brown Osawatomie
Don't agree with everything here but I love that you have so much analysis to actually support what you say. The biggest issue I have is that you seem to be saying her race and sex were insurmountable hurdles.
Id love to know why you think they WEREN'T
@pryncjericho Greetings. I think the level of misogynoir is likely the strongest form of discrimination in the US, but I remember the prevailing notion was that we would never have a black prez and that he would be killed if he came close. We mentally limited ourselves and what we could accomplish. His win was overcoming anti-black sentiment in the country. I see no reason if she were a more authentic and competent candidate who wasn't tied to an unpopular Biden that she couldn't have won despite the misgynoir she faced.
@@pryncjerichoher playing the race card backfired on her. Should’ve left it alone. The left are the ones ALWAYS talking about race. Her gender had nothing to do with her loosing bc she could’ve identified as any one of the other 20 genders. She’s just not a good candidate, and she isn’t honest.
@@pryncjerichoshe immediately made it the hot topic of discussion calling herself a black woman after receiving numerous “First Indian American to ______awards”. A lie that puts her whole career under scrutiny. People dug up her history, found out that she was an Indian-Jamaican woman raised in Canada and got pissed at her for ever trying to Co-Opt American Blackness for virtue or easy clout like Obama. Then she says “sick em boy” and sends the ACTUAL OBAMA TO TALK DOWN ON BLACK MEN AND CALL US MISOGYNISTS FOR NOT FUCKING WITH HER HELL NAH.
i think Unc is half right. As a hispanic man in my mid-30s who voted twice for Obama and then thrice again for the lesser of two evil options in 2016, 2020, and 2024, I think Unc downplays the burnout effect of former democrats who are comfortable enough in life and just tired of the democrats not delivering. I'm in one of those swing states and I left another former swing state with a large hispanic majority district and even the 2nd and 3rd gen hispanics, those that went to college, couldn't get it up for kamala. not out of racism or sexism, we come from countries with black, asian, white, jewish, and even women presidents but at the end of the day, it was the policies. there was nothing there to deal with the 'corruption' of Washington, that's a big thing for us b/c a lot of our countries are seen as corrupt. i'm not saying that racism and sexism didn't play a part, of course there are knuckle draggers that will always vote based on that but at least in both of my swing states, talking to friends and families there was no hype, it felt like it doesn't matter who wins b/c the banks will get bailed out first, then those with ties to the government, and the workers will get caught with the bill. i know plenty of people who are happy the democrats lost, not so much because hate kamala but b/c they want the establishment democrats gone, they want another option.
Edit1: There's data that shows that Kamala lost the black vote in Georgia. Look if she can't get the black vote in Georgia i don't think the blame is solely racism or sexism. I think it's POLICIES. we're not dumb, we can see that neither party offers anything and people are voting out of desperation or for the candidate who at least said was going to do something. I do hope the current democratic party leaders leave but i don't see that happening, the mainstream media is already doing the blame every minority group and saying kamala was perfect and the old democratic leaders are running again (Pelosi) and there seem to be no challengers for leadership in the house and senate. The democratic party are the republicans of the 80s and I'm telling you that deflates voter turnout. This coming from a guy whose best financial interest would be to vote republican, i've been living comfortable but I grew up with social programs, I know what it's like to struggle but even the barebones support I had back then seems miles ahead of what people can get now.
Part of the reason for the stagnation is the fact that Congress has been in a borderline 50/50 split sense 2008 ( I think.) If the Dems want to make bigger promises and sweeping changes. They need at least 61 seats in the Senate to avoid filibuster and the Majority in the House. I think in our conversations on the left we can talk about the importance of Congress in all of this more.
I couldn’t agree more
Bingo! I couldn’t have said it better.
Kamala was a horrible candidate. I voted for 3 women for president in my lifetime, Hilary, Warren, and stein so im not a misogynist. I’m black so hopefully im not a racist against my own ppl. I voted for stein cuz Harris AND trump are just horrible candidates. And the dems are sooo ineffective at accomplishing the goals they pitch during campaign season.
This is very understandable... And yet... Do these folks Not understand that Trump and the like will literally do their damnedest to boot them out the country and make things far far worse???
I get being fed up .. but that's why I turned to anarchism and local community building and dual power systems and learning how to actually disempower the government altogether.
I really can't vibe with people who think electorial politics is the start and end of their ability to change things. STOP DEPENDING ON PEOPLE IN POWER TO GIVE YOU CHANGE!!!
The only purpose of voting is to make a bit easier for you to do the local work where it actually matters.
Just giving up and taking your ball home is only going to make it easier for them to come and pop your ball.
@@keyturn23Stein is a worse candidate. A very unserious candidate that has no real policies. I voted for her in 2016, I'll never do that again.
People don't vote on campaigns, they vote to punish or reward the previous government
Excellent take. The one exception I can think of is Obama in 2012, when he lost a lot of steam. I think most people were still waiting for that Hope he promised, and just blamed the Republicans for all the things he couldn’t do, even at times when he could do them.
So basically, the Republicans have to mess up so badly in these four years that their future is gone? My god, I do not want to wait on that miracle. And that miracle is very messy even if it happens.
Good post Naren. I hadn’t seen that expressed anywhere else. The problem with that fact is that it doesn’t lead to more content or gaslighting.
That and general vibe and key words the candidate spits out.
@@arnoldfreeman2885 Remember when Obama tried to cut social security and the Freedom Caucus blocked it lol
that fact you dropped on Trump beating 2008 Obama is sobering and frankly terrifying, the US gets scarier and scarier to me every passing year.
Obama’s election is WHY the country is where its is now. It’s why Hillary didn’t win as well. Ponder on that.
@@distinctlydri2831 They are STILL mad about Obama. It's been nearly a decade and they are STILL mad about. They literally won't shut up about him. They can't.
@@distinctlydri2831 They saw a black man be president and swore "never again".
Trump got in because of Obama
@ facts.
Thank you for telling the truth.
One thing that I’ve seen as well is how in other major nations incumbents were also ousted due to the general global economy issues worldwide. Not saying her identity didn’t hurt her among white voters, but she did pretty well considering the general anti incumbent attitude globally right now
She killed you're party you can't blame the whole thing on her but at the end of the day she was the final nail in coffin of the democratic party
@@BenAlmond69That's putting a whole lot more importance on Kamala than is warranted.
@@BenAlmond69 Bro Biden is more to blame than anyone for her losing. He waited way way way too long to give up and the dnc made the terrible but almost only choice they could to just nominate Harris instead of holding a primary because it wasn't enough time to campaign if they held one.
@@BenAlmond69 lmao I highly doubt the Democratic Party is completely dead just cause one candidate failed. Also I don’t consider the democratic party “mine”, I’m far more left than them
My mom was streaming TV yesterday, and a Kamala Harris ad played.
It was a kick in the gut. Why would we care about scaring the donor class ( with anything left of Reagan neoliberalism ) if those donations are being spent showing ads a month after the election?
@@samus598 because the Democratic party is a party of grifters and oligarchs. Scamala had more billionaire donations than Trump as well as more money from Israel and the military industrial complex what does that tell you
Google probably spreads out ad plays in ways that the buyer does not control
That's often due to ads bought before the election but not played yet. The networks are still obligated to play them even if it is too late.
I still get fundraising emails from Harris/Walz, and the texts kept coming a full week after election
@@duckofdeathv1595 which shows poor budget management by kamala and her team.. immagine wasting billions giving money to already rich people... Imagine that person 20mil in dept running the country hahahahahahahhahah. And you lot think ''racism'' and ''mysogyny'' were the reasons she lose.. xD..
My (white) mother recently asked me why I voted for the "crazy lady" instead of Trump. I explained to her that I found his policies repugnant , his personality vile and miserable, and his history (especially on covid) to be abysmal.
My mother responded that Trump wasn't a great choice, but Harris was too extreme, stupid, impulsive, and can't be trusted with leadership because she's deceptive and dishonest. Quite honestly all things that apply to Trump by massive margins.
Do I think my mother voted for Trump as a conscious misogynist or racist? Probably not. But I don't know how people can claim that race and sex didn't play at least some part in this election.
Also, just to vent, I hate how white liberals seem to be chalking this loss up to the Democrats being "too woke", especially on trans rights. All over the place. I have at least one trans friend who needs to make arrangements to leave the military immediately because Trump is booting her out. I have another few trans friends who are earnestly considering moving out of the country because things are not looking good. A soon-to-be-sitting trans House rep is getting hazed for being trans. And all white liberals can do is stand around and twiddle their thumbs because they don't see this polling as a valuable issue to them anymore. Feels like all the Democratic Party does anymore is fundraising and focus group testing.
They listened to what people said of her and never gave her a chance. I promise they never saw a real video of her truly speaking to the people, only a few clips that made her look “bad” to them. I’m from New Zealand and she’s still centre right in my country. She was a brilliant start to focusing on the people, but still, the current media landscape absolutely slandered her, and in our country there would be heavy consequences for the vile crap people on Fox said about her. America has normalised some terrible sh*t with this election.
4 paragraphs of excuses 😂 Vance 2028
You might not like it but I think you do not understand what you're normal John Smith thinks about where US is heading, I suggest you cast all you belief's and presuppositions aside for few days and emarse yourself into political massageing of center-right or just center.
Mind you as a European (polish) imigreant liveing in other European nation (UK)I did not care who would win, from my outsider view the main causes for trump's victory are
- persistent inflation/ sticker shock under Biden
- failed assasination attempts on Trump
- democrats failure to run preminiery elections for their presidential candidate
@@JakobF369 CIA behavior
@@JakobF369Ah yes. Mr. "Grandma and grandpa just need to watch the kids, that's how ya save money on baby sitting!"
What a great guy... Bet you're a great guy too... May God Bless you this Thanksgiving.
Great video. I really hope some of the criticism that the democrats are receiving actually lands, but I'm not very optimistic that it happens.
This is the best breakdown i have seen so far of this elections. Sadly the finger will never point to those really responsible. This is beyond frustrating and i am not even American. I feel for you guys. The same shift is coming here in canada as well.
I agree. I think this is a very well researched, and well-considered break down.
Canada....Justin Trudeau...we get a lot of Canadian stating how insufferable Canada has turned under this Leftist....He is another Gavin Newsom....his policies are disasterous....Trust me a lot of Canadian posts on American videos...and many wish they can have a Trump in their country....76M Americans and many otheres around the world are very happy that we have a strong leader in the White House. The Left's polices, all though well intentioned do not playout in the real world. Its like a fantazy that you many have (Karl Marx) but if you actually put it into practive the impact may not be what you intended for yourself and the people involved. We need pragmatist to run the show, not ideologiist. I will vist Canada when Mr. Trudeau leave. By the way did you hear that he came to Ma a Largo to kiss the ring?
It’s not dude, he’s just a guy that pronounces all of his words but there is no substance in what he says. He’s not talking about any real policy or ideology. It’s all “Trump won because racist white people”, but no real insight into WHY people voted Trump. He’s just coping.
Of course racism and sexism played a role in this election. A ton of Americans will never vote for a black person or a woman and still feel scandalized that Obama was elected. And those people are Trump's base who he did a great job of speaking to their perceived grievances.
My issue with the take that racism and sexism were the main reason for her loss is that it seems to mostly rely on the idea that Kamala's lower vote share than Biden in 2020 indicates that people who voted for Biden were unwilling to vote for her, and the only difference is their race and gender. I think that is a myopic assessment. It ignores that anti-incumbent sentiment worked in Biden's favor in 2020 and against him and then Harris in 2024. When shit is bad, people vote out the party in power. I could accept this take if you had polling that showed there were millions of people willing to vote for Biden back before he dropped out and who then decided to stay home for Harris.
My take is that Biden ran an ineffective campaign that tried to claim he had been an effective president and thus people should trust him to continue. When it became clear to the party elites that that was DEFINITELY not a winning strategy, they pushed him out and then gave Kamala the busted hoopty of a campaign to fix and run for the last 100 days. She was fighting an uphill battle, but instead of distancing herself from Biden, she doubled down on his strategy. I think anti-incumbent and anti-establishment sentiment played a bigger role in this loss than racism or sexism, and I think Biden's floundering polling demonstrated that those people were already turned off from voting for him and thus her.
Agreed. The excitement for Kamala was white hot when she first took over.
There was a huge surge of support initially that died down over time as Kamala failed to distance herself from Biden. Also, the Republican social media troll factory is a machine. People who don't follow politics knew all the anti-Kamala talking points.
So true bro, America will never elect a black president. 😢
That's a lot of words. Just say, "I'm a gay communist"
@@crustis5958why would they lie
@@myusernamewasinuseyes… but weird to bringing up the election-determining roll of anti incumbent attitude without talking about inflation. People wouldn’t vote blue and the reason is that their lives are worse than they were four years ago.
The overwhelming swing from 2020 was low earners away from dems.
And it was the steepest drop in dem voter share since….. drum roll…
1980, following high inflation under Carter
Tbh I don’t think it’s that complicated. In the past year incumbents have lost by historic margins worldwide because of inflation. Deserved or not Joe Biden is the face of inflation in America.
I don’t know if attempting to break from Biden would have been enough to win but it would have been a miracle to win as a black woman with a platform of being just like Biden.
Mexico didn't have trouble getting their incumbent party re-elected.
American capitalists don't want us to use that as a case study though.
Hence why Biden should have never ran for reelection, _just like he promised_ way back when. But no, he had to be _the_ guy until he couldn't be the guy so he chose his vice president who stuck to his shoe so hard she inherited his issues.
Obama getting into office was already a kind of miracle by itself way back when. Most right wingers saw Harris as a DEI hire, in combination with being right off the back of Biden, and only 4 months to campaign. The odds were overwhelmingly stacked against her.
Her race doesn't play a role at all... I wouldn't have voted for her if she had been a white man either... I just don't like her policies
@mayo9738 this is America, mayo man. Of course, race mattered to some voters.
Your approach to the data is great and is probably more useful than anything you will get from trained statisticians.
I greatly appreciate the effort because I’ve been searching for someone to talk about what it means that trump won states where democrats won senate or gubernatorial races. I don’t find your explanation persuasive, but I still appreciate the video.
Everyone who's blaming 3rd party voters is coping. This ain't like Gore in 2000, she wasn't just a few thousand votes away from winning. Even if every 3rd party voter voted for Kamala, she still would've lost. She just would've lost a little less strongly.
*2000 (Kerry v bush in 04)
@followeder666 ah, you're right.
@@damienhouse77063rd party definitely had a spoiler effect in 2000 and 2016. It did not have an effect for 2024. It's hard to tell how high it can be.
I don’t feel bad and I’m in West Virginia so I knew for sure it wouldn’t matter.:(
I kinda feel like the big amount that she lost by kind of snapped me out of a certain complacency with the system and I've been looking into a broader range of political voices as a result. It's been easier to filter some things as actually kind of niche issues that don't sway the viewer base at large with this large a difference.
You point to a painful reality in conservative white america. I remember one time a mexican man came in for an interview where i work. Casually dressed but respectable looking, young guy.
My coworkers happily showed him around just as they did for me. But when he left they immediately started inquiring what country he came from. Noted discomfort in his presence and thought he would be trouble.
This guy was perfectly nice and and congenial, he was a little nervous and awkward but that was exactly how i was when i first started there as well. I really could not find a valid reason for their discomfort.
When election day came no one outwardly celebrated trumps victory. But comments sneering at news publications implying racism and sexism charging trumps success were scattered throughout the day. Curiosity got the best of me and i asked a few of them why they thought trump won. almost all of them said "his economic policy", but when i pressed what they saw in his plan most questioned his goals with the tariffs, and revealed they didnt actually know much about his economic policies.
Make of that what you will.
The likelihood is they really did vote based on economic policy, they just never really looked into it. Most voters take campaign statements at face value. If the Trump campaign says their policies will improve the job market, most will trust it to be true. They may not necessarily be economically illiterate (or secretly racist/sexist), they're probably just lazy and therefore overly trusting. Most people cant be bothered to analyse policy.
Lets be real, when it came to economic policy, Trump offered change, and Harris offered the status quo. If people see that things are bad, they'll take the 'change' candidate - they'll take that roll of the dice.
Trump has won two elections not because of racism/sexism, but because he was the 'change' candidate in both elections during periods of severe economic decline. The only reason Obama got two terms is because he oversaw relative economic improvements during his first term, since he came into office shortly after the 2008 collapse (as the change candidate - see the trend).
Thanks for this. They always *say* "the economy" but that's not the real reason. It just makes you sound like an informed voter when you say it. Americans are just like Trump, faking their way through a book report.
Let me guess you said nothing about this in fear of losing your job. No judgement just how the world works now
You know everything don't you. You're so awesome, your workmates must love your wisdom.
Your anecdote about the Mexican applicant reads a lot like you are leaving out all the important explanation that might point to something other than racism.
For example you say "I couldn't really find a valid reason for the discomfort..." But you didn't even give us an example of their invalid reasons. So they did give you reasons, but you don't find them valid? A few similar signs like that makes me think you were kind of....only seeing things that lead you to a conclusion which you think is true.
One other factor to mention: do your colleagues know you aren't a Trump enthusiast? If some lefty in my workplace started drilling me about economic policy specifics, I would clam RIGHT up, straight away. Similarly if anybody drilled me about race questions. Super red flag. I would give off a superficial answer, then cut off conversation so I would seem pretty dumb too.
It's taken me 6 years to recognize it, but I've over the past year finally determined what my "resistance" will look like. Next fall, I'm returning to university to study social studies education. I'm going to be a teacher, and what I'm going to do my absolute best to do is educate future Americans on the true history. I'll be educating them on the true ethics and civics that should inform every voter in this country. My students will not be able to say "I didn't know that" about xyz harmful policy that authoritarians will push. Because they will know better. I only hope that I will be legally allowed to share the truth with them.
Remember to teach them how to see the other side as well. Just to have a balanced persective.
Dude, your whole statement is a walking red flag. As someone poised to teach English Lit what you said sounds like brainwashing. What is the 'true' history? What are the 'true' ethics? You have as much authority on the truth as I do, which is none. There is no objective truth. What I'm teaching my students is HOW to think, not WHAT to think. We all perceive our reality differently, but we can guide the next generation by giving them the tools to change the world for the better. Cramming your agenda down their throat isn't that. Just show them we are a flawed country, that no one politician will ever truly solve their problems or promote their values, and that their voice will always matter to the future of this nation. That's all you need to do.
@@thunderwing2124I wouldn't count on that. But I hope so.
Oh my god. As a teacher with many teacher friends GOOOOD LUCK. Id encourage you to teach abroad, study abroad, anything but this trash fire.
In soviet communist russia economics was banned from being taught and studied. So long as you don't start teaching anti trump economics or too much "woke CRT DEI" you're probably good from this administration
I just found you, keep doing what you do, it’s fantastic.
I think the economy still played a major impact to the differentials. People who weren’t active in politics blamed the post-COVID nightmare on the democrats, and were willing to vote for a different party even if their promises for fixing the problems are faulty or worse. It’s less clear in American election data, but more in global data (the shift of power from incumbents to rival parties in many countries)
fr I think the collective non political folks fully don’t connect covid with trump, everything is because of Biden to them
Agreed. All around the world, incumbents lost, which suggest that Kamala’s lost was a part of bigger wave of punishment by voters. Hard for me to see the economy didn’t play a part.
That's a good point. Didn't think about that. Forgot that the Dems and their policies and smug attitude around COVID completely turned ppl off.
Perception will always be greater than reality, and with the economy people will blame those currently in power for what they're currently experiencing. Doesn't matter if it's a mess that might take years and was someone else's fault.
12:00 Michigander here, as well as a student at a fairly liberal university. The kind of hate being thrown at Muslims by leftists in my community is fucking disgusting. Dearborn, Michigan - the city with the highest density of Muslims outside of the middle east - turned red this election, and people are losing their fucking minds, talking about how Muslims should have sucked up their pride and voted for Kamala rather than voting third party, trump, or not voting at all. The lack of empathy is utterly insane here.
Truth of the matter is this: this kind shame towards Muslims is bullshit. Asking someone to vote for a woman who served the administration that abetted and assisted in their people's genocide is wrong. Especially when that very woman vowed to continue her support while refusing to comment on a ceasefire.
"I mean, yeah, all of your family and friends are butchered and buried under Gazan rubble, that really sucks . . . but what about the lesser of two evils, huh?"
Genuinely revolting. Stay safe out here, y'all.
Leftists leftists?
I just fail to see why a real Leftist would be so disappointed that their preferred genocidal capitalist party didn't win an election.
Maybe they were progressive Liberals?
i live in MI aswell its terrible how nasty liberals have gotten after the loss they out here acting like the minorities are the ones in the wrong for being hated
While I also draw the line at genocide, Trump did say he would let Bibi “finish the job.” So why any Arab-American would vote for him is beyond me
I was at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, for 9-11.
Very few people did what was right, as the rhetoric against Muslims and Arabs ramped up. Proud to say that I did. It's a strong current to stand against, but it's one that dissolves illusions even as it bruises and cracks your ribs.
I'm glad for you, and I understand what you're feeling. Stay strong.
@@donalvarez4006Yeah the argument from the Michigander made no sense. I won't defend hate but it is insane for a person who got more votes caused the conditions in the middle east in prior administration and he promised to be worse. History is a good teacher. Liberia has an election in the 90s and the people voted for a man who admitted to killing their families, Charles Taylor, over what would then be the first female president.
Incumbent parties got cooked across the globe regardless of which direction they leaned. I think there needs to be a point we stop micro analyzing Kamala’s campaign for the failures in its messaging when Trump’s success can only be measured in the broadest strokes. Joe Biden was going to lose due to post-pandemic inflation, and Harris blew her only advantage by becoming an extension of him. I believe in economic populism, but Bernie would’ve been in the same boat if he and that doctrine had been at the helm.
A lot of political historians have said that if Roosevelt was president when the great depression began he would have lost to Hoover.
I agree mostly but I think Bernie would’ve done significantly better because the reason incumbents lost is because people wanted change. Kamala was no change from Biden but Bernie would’ve been. He would’ve went on Rogan and every podcast trump went on because he actually has a message to give to the people unlike Harris. Also Rogan along with a lot of people who watch him and other independent podcasts are huge Bernie supporters. Idk if that would’ve been enough to win though
Great video, slightly ashamed to say some of the things I'd believed from others/thought myself about the election results seem to be more vibes based than backed by the actual data. Thank you for the great analysis.
31:20 finally someone brought this point to the forefront. Why DOES EVERYONE IGNORE she tried running in 2020 and lost?! HORRIBLY!
Got smoked by Tulsi Gabbard in the primary
1st of all, Dems ran Biden again cuz to not do so, would be to admit even they saw Bidens cognitive decline. Had they not ran Biden, that would have put Biden's current term in jeopardy. They had to wait until Biden dropped out. So u don't have anyone else to blame but Biden. Had Biden backed out immediately, Harris would have had a better chance at voter turnout. Instead the media showed video proof of Harris switching stances on literally anything she was interviewed about during her short campaign. This lost voter trust.
Honestly, I didn't want to vote for Kamala. The only reason I did was for Walz. He did great things in Minnesota and I thought they would talk about things like that throughout the rest of the campaign. Even that little nugget that they gave to the left, I was okay voting for her. But a lot of other people werent. And it makes sense. When you have one candidate going "I will be a Republican" and the other going "oh yeah? Well I will be a Republican Lite!"
Then why would anyone on the left vote for the Republican lite? Why would Republicans vote for the Republican lite? They would just vote for their team. And the Dems just chasing this mythical centrist voter without ever thinking about how this affects their base is really alarming.
The border, Israel, and trying to appeal to Liz Cheney voters is the 3 main issues that they went to the right without listening to the left wing base. And they wonder why people on the left didn't vote for them this time. We need a true populist left candidate like Bernie in 2016 if we are going to have any chance of winning.
Meh, Walz was a DEI hire
@@SigFigNewtondei hire by the dems right? Lmao
I agree 100%
Oh you really liked the snitch hotline to get Americans reporting their neighbors for exercising bodily autonomy huh?
@@SigFigNewton I thought he was an REI hire?
Yeah you’re 100% right here. There’s other big reasons she lost but leaving racism/ sexism out of the analysis is like saying “I don’t see colour”
I’m in an election where people desired change saying that you wouldn’t do a single thing different than biden and not having an answer for what something you would do if you could do it without checks and balances we’re absolutely terrible. Very simple and easy answers to both of those questions but she couldn’t do it.
i genuinely don't think a white guy would've won on her platform and rhetoric. people don't like neoliberalism.
Lmao her and Biden sucked
I’ve seen people bring up the racism part more often than the sexism part. Both definitely had parts to play in her loss. This is the second time Trump has beaten a woman in an election, and he’s a convicted felon for god’s sake. You cannot convince me that sexism had nothing to do with him winning
Kamala didn’t lose because she was a Black woman, and I’m saying this as a Black woman 😂
The most honest and accurate post election analysis I’ve heard so far. Somehow, being frank about America’s most decisive issue has become a third rail.
i respect you for talking about how there is much more to this than an election unc! building a support group for yourself is key. like you said a lot of the fighting on the internet doesn’t help much, quite the contrary, so look out for yourself and your community! good video
I’d disagree with your thesis that Kamala Harris’s core reason that she lost was because of racism and sexism, mainly because I view that racism and sexism as a constant that was going to be there no matter what. Like you said, we as black people and especially black women have to work much, much harder to overcome those barriers to be in the same positions that other people can get to easily, and this is nothing new and has existed since the creation of this country. Kamala Harris and everyone else already knew that going into her campaign, and she still ran it like she was Biden or Hillary or any other bland establishment Democrat that gets to coast by on not being as evil as the other party.
Personally I’d say that the main reason she lost is because Kamala (and the rest of the democratic party) gave a lot of people no reason to vote for her other than who she isn’t. If we compare her and Barack who faced a lot of similar issues, Barack gave the people many specific policy reasons to vote for him like health care reform, gay marriage, and starting an end to the war in Iraq. Barack gave people many policy reasons to ignore his identity as a black man, but Kamala didn’t have much except abortion rights and not being Trump. Voters are selfish at their core, and if you don’t give them a reason to vote against their internal biases you can’t expect that they’ll reckon with them and overcome them.
I guess my main point is that racism and sexism shouldn’t be labeled the core issue to her loss because both you and I know that using that as an excuse doesn’t change anything about the reality of your situation, and that shouldn’t be any different for Kamala Harris. If I know my teacher is overly critical to my papers because she has a racial bias against me, saying the core reason I failed her is class because she’s biased is not actionable and just leads to nihilistic quitting. If instead I say “Damn, she’s being really picky about my papers, let me make sure to do my best to shore up any issues i may have so she has no excuse but to grade me well”, I can use that to put myself in a better position to succeed, which is what a lot of us have had to do in every aspect of our lives to not only get by, but prosper. If she couldn’t do that to overcome that racism and sexism inherent in our society, she shouldn’t’ve taken up that nomination in the first place.
Agreed
It's simple. Kamala lost because she was a poor candidate who called Trump "racist and secist" and it's just not true.
She tried to make the rural white man, who was never going to vote for her, reasons for voting for her all while giving the diverse urban person very little insentive for voting for her. They still voted for her, but whoitout the support of white rural men sho was lost. She needed poc people in masses but instead she (and democrats in general, beause all of them have done this time and time again) went for the white rural men that was never going to vote for her no matter what she said.
It's odd to me because if one truly chooses to believe that she lost because of racism and sexism what is the counter to that? I feel like we shouldn't just tell black women to not run for our countries highest office
I completely disagree with the idea that she could've won if the same campaign was ran by a white guy. She did lose in part due to racism, but also because she binded herself to Biden, someone who is historically unpopular, and also she completely capitulated on the republican talking points.
Biden was about to lose so big it was gonna hurt. So yea, his premise is wrong from the start.
Like you actually don’t. Her campaign was gone completely because she was black. I don’t understand why you people want to minimize the impact white supremacy has on this country.
Not so sure it would have helped if she distanced herself from Biden. They were saturated with right wing media constantly telling them she is Biden's #2.
@@suzettegibson6407 The average American is not a QAnon follower. Her loss was down to a lot of the people who voted for Biden not voting at all rather than a significant amount of people who previously voted Dem voting for Trump.
There was a surge of donations when she replaced Biden as the nominee. She had momentum, and she squandered it all by campaigning to keep the status quo when it's currently unpopular, attempting to court the right-wing vote with her policies, and palling around with the Cheneys.
what dumb take. "won if the same campaign was ran by a white guy" is rooted in HISTORY and FACT. in the 250 years of the US, one person has been president that wasn't a white man??? so her race and gender were HUGE obstacles to overcome even if she ran the most effective campaign.
I absolutely love your channel. What an incredibly detailed and informed video
Thank you! I knew this in my bones the minute she lost the popular vote. And I was frustrated that you were the ONLY one talking about it.
He doesn't like her much but ShoeOnHead is also pretty insightful on why Trump on.
F.D. keeps missing one detail -- voter turnout by race and gender based on exit polling, not just share of the final vote.
The largest decrease in voter turnout was young people, black women, and Latina women. Kamala got MORE white women than Biden and Trump lost more white men than the Democratic Party did.
Kamala did better with white people than Biden did. Kamala did worse with women of color and young people than Biden did.
F.D. hints at both but doesn't tie them into a single theory because it debunks his argument: leave progressives alone.
Sorry. This was progressives. Democrats lost 7 million voters, almost all of them women of color, most of them young.
We could have figured this out on election day. Total votes were down, shares for young voters and women of color were down, ergo, Dems lost millions of young people and women of color -- more than they needed to win.
For three elections now I've been swallowing my disgust and voting against Trump because I live in NC, and I'm really ready to have somebody I actually want to vote for
Mark Robinson is good
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@@cashnelson2306 no? I think you're being very brave
In order for that to happen, you need to build from the ground up with more progressives throughout the whole country. Anyone like Bernie Sanders will get pushed aside by the establishment or greatly hindered if they somehow win. But so many people don't even bother to vote, then complain afterwards why nothing gets better, it's all self reinforcing.
@@Richard.PExactly. NC Democrats did much better than they have in years. It takes lots of work and that has been done by the Democratic chair in NC, who is the youngest in the country. Andy Beshear is able to be governor of Kentucky by his framing. Beshear defending minorities and the LGBTQ community in Kentucky is very inspiring.
Thank you for your solidarity with the Palestinian cause, brother.
Pause, he considers the moderate liberals the left and they aren't. They are conservatives in blue clothes. The left he is speaking of despises my fellow Palestinian brothers and sisters. Liberals are not the left.
What has his solidarity achieved?
At the end of the day bro, you said it at the end of your video.. No one knows what to do because we are void of leadership as a people ✊🏾.. & even if we did have that leadership we are so lost as a people we'd be divided on the direction the leader instructed us to go in.. It's really a very sad state of affairs that our people are in right now!! But I appreciated the breakdown of this vid.. 👍🏾
I'm an outsider to your country and i very much see your points in analysis you are making and I agree with you! You're an intelligent educator. Thank you!
Your analysis is spot on, but i think you’re underselling the value of energy. I voted in a red town in a blue state, the Trump hype was crazy. Biden was empowered by Trump Fatigue in 2020 as an unknown quantity because of his progressive posturing. People came out in big numbers to vote against a status quo they were unhappy with. Trump rode in on Biden fatigue this time. You’re not wrong that race and gender played a role, but there was no energy behind Kamala. People voted for Trump because they like him, vs the reason most people voted for Kamala was that she wasn’t Trump. I’d agree her race and gender played a role, but the lack of any greater movement around her should be considered a big deal. I think there are suburban and rural dems who stayed home and republicans who might have stayed home if they didn’t see their vote as pivotal to changing a status quo that they were unhappy with. Not all Trump supporters are racist and sexists, some are, but some just blame democrats for everything wrong with the country. She didn’t present those people with a better vision so Trump got a lot of the votes of people who weren’t happy with the status quo. Those people are okay with racism and sexism, but you’d be surprised how many people outside of the internet don’t think about things in those terms.
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Deep red state here. Yes they fucking DO think of things in those terms, and I won't be lied to about that. What an unbelievably soggy and tired display of apologetics.
Bull shit. They're all fascists, racists, and haters. That's what they voted for - They can't separate their trump votes from themselves.
I agree with you, with the exception of saying that only some Trump supporters are racist. All Trump supporters, if they are not personally racist, have at least made the decision that blatant racism doesn’t turn them off (which I would argue makes you racist).
Trumps bigotry is not in anyway hidden, it is one of the most central parts of his politics and his appeal to millions of people. I think it’s disingenuous to act like these people simply don’t know better when Trump himself is the one telling people he’s a bigot.
But, isn’t that just internalized identity politics… ? The same thing people on the right always blame Democrats for doing?
Thank you for making your video. You have a lot of great points.
I plan on working with my union to make my workplace more accepting of minorities. It might not be the most radical of actions, but it has to count for something.
I think your analysis is spot on and you left room for additional dialogue about what happened this election. Like you, I voted against Trump which meant me voting for Harris. Was she the candidate I wanted, no. Honestly, I wanted Hillary in 2016 but we all know how that went. America is a part of a much larger global political right leaning movement that's showing up in most Western nations.
As Americans, we have to stop looking at our politics within an American bubble. We live in a world dominated by globalisation and all Americans who care about such things should always consider that when looking at our national politics.
Commenting for engagement and mild correction. At 17:00 you swapped the states these women won in. Lisa Blunt-Rochester won here in Delaware. Thank you for keeping up the fantastic political work on top of all that you do.
We have a nation of people who failed a take-home exam they had months to prepare. People are unironically concerned about the Leopards they just admitted voting for.
It's all a joke, literally, figuratively, metaphorically, cosmically.
In a comedy this would have been the punchline. There is a weird amount of people I have seen who voted for Trump and seem to regret it the day after? Like okay, then why did you vote for Trump?
There are two leopards.
Exactly, but BP are so bent on white acceptance so this outcome (sans voting tampering) wasn’t shocking.
@@skyaero8773 every trump voter I seen has been ecstatic about his semi-establishment "totally against establishment" picks and is just getting happier
...and the non-voters are those who didn't submit the assignment.
I live in rural Minnesota. Minnesota has been blue forever. But in rural Minnesota my family and I are completely surrounded by houses with trump signs in their front yard. Driving into town the last couple months has been very disheartening.
Wasn't Minnesota like the only state Reagan didn't win in 1984? yet even in such a stronghold, Trump performed really well lol. Yeah it must be because he has the best policies, there's something truly magical about Trump you see 🤦♂
Same here in rural california.
That's rural America everywhere.
Same thing here in New York. Rural areas are virtually synonymous with conservatism in this country.
@@poliquititmore likely to be supported be certain parties and policies
Great breakdown!! I learned a bunch, and we agree on a lot, too. I am ready for a woman to be president regardless of color, as long as they are democratic in nature. Unfortunately, a majority of the country doesn't feel the same.
I look forward to your future videos.
Why is no one talking about Democrats basically having their candidates appointed by ultra wealthy who knows who’s rather than really chosen by the people in a fair, open primary?
And watching Elon Musk on stage with Trump and be part of the incoming administration's phone calls and discussion doesn't inform you of who bought Trump? The fact that the VP is someone that's been on the payroll of Peter Thiel for years, both as an employee and as a politician doesn't bother you?
I agree the neoliberals in the Democratic party are too beholden to corporate interests; you can't be a party for the working class if you only listen to business interests. But saying the Democrats are bought out by billionaires ignores the two that literally bought their seats at the table more directly than anyone since the Gilded Age.
Because it's not relevant, all candidates are selected this way. The notion that Republican nominees aren't appointed by the wealthy whose donations fund their campaigns to garner votes in the first place, is ridiculous. All campaigns run on money. The people don't choose who the candidates are in either party, they're preselected for you.
@@Melesniannon point is that Democrats cared so little about winning that they didn't bother doing a primary and also had Biden stupidly running a second time. Even if he were more mentally present and stuck around there was no way Biden was gonna win, much less Harris.
Every president is chosen this way every time since the first one
Being chosen as an elector in itself has class implications
Election day needs to be made a federal holiday and have compulsory voting. It's ridiculous how we consistently see that upwards of 30-35% of the US population didn't vote in an election
I agree with the sentiment, but it's naive to think that all (or even most) of that non-voting block would vote blue.
Anecdotally, Michigan has set new records for voter turnout every election since the 2018 midterms, yet the 2024 results came out decidedly purple despite the previous three elections being decidedly blue.
Holiday yes compulsory voting no IMO
Language is important. Say "universal enfranchisement" lest people feel forced to make choices they don't want to.
I will agree with compulsory voting when there is a binding "None of the above" option that rejects/disqualifies the entire current crop and forces them to offer better candidates and repeat the process until someone actually wins a legitimate majority.
Without this, it's a sham to call what we're offered "representation". I have never felt represented by a politician in my life. Whether I vote 3rd party, or refuse to participate, somehow it's always _my_ fault that the bad guy won. I will not accept compulsory strategic (lesser evil) voting. That's not choice, it's fraud.
@@icanhasutoobz wait that’s smart
I’m a white leftist who grew up in Texas. My parents are both conservative but love defining their views as “moderate.” They hadn’t yet voted for Trump before, however, it was clear that they didn’t feel comfortable voting for Kamala. My father ended up voting for Kamala but my mother actually decided not to vote for the federal election (and voted republican for the rest of the ballot, except against Ted Cruz). When trying to convince my mother to vote Kamala, she couldn’t get past the idea of “hand outs.” I asked if it were Tim Walz running, if she would vote for him, and she had said no.
She still agrees with anti-trump rhetoric but i am unsure if she regrets not voting federally.
When i was unable to convince her to vote for Kamala, i found that as an indication that Kamala was in trouble with the “moderates”….which is quite ironic considering how hard she was reaching for the conservatives.
Love your videos!
Another Texan here! My parents sound like the other way around, and my mom has moved significantly further to the left since 2015 and all the nonsense with our once/future president the first time around (and I am super proud of her). I didn't expect the state to turn purple or anything, but I was hoping we could see the back of Cruz, and I kind of hope he and Ken Paxton will eventually get tapped for federal positions (and then get fired) so they'll finally be out of our state. A girl can dream, I guess
How old are your parents? Do they get Social Security or Medicare?
@@maryeckel9682 my father is close to retiring-they’re both on my father’s employer insurance
She didn't have trouble with moderates, moderates are usually right leaning who want to enjoy left benefits. Your mothers choice of words is also very... interesting, she has a better resume than Trump, what hand out would she be receiving? Especially compared to Trump. Moderates are the absolute worst, they are the reason even MLK was giving up hope about racial progress.
I'm black and I don't like Obamacare. I had a contract job with no benefits. Got Obamacare and the price rose every year until I couldn't afford it even tho I rarely use health insurance. Even had the Obamacare rep tell me I can't expect the rates to not raise. You can't give insurance to some and .ake it unaffordable to some people in that same group.
you should look in to the actual construction of obamacare and what it had to go through before it was actually signed off on and still labelled “obamacare”
I am a trans women who lives in a blue state. Trump winning has made me push harder to transition. Making a lot of good strives with it. Think my goal now is to focus on self healing and improve myself. Keep doing volunteer work (I volunteer for a suicide hotline) and get more involved in local politics to keep my town being safe for trans and other minorities. It not a lot, but feel like the small things can carry weight in the long term.
Sending you love and swift healing on your transition!
@@wizard-lizard thank you darling
✊ I don't think you are alone in that. In fact I know you aren't ❤
Keep on keeping on, your going to be okay. Blue states will likely always have your back.
@@theideaofevil glad to not be alone. Wishing you the best darling.
As a progressive from Missouri let me play a little bit of devils advocate: Missouri has almost always voted for progressive policies and actually almost gave Obama our electorate (it was by like 0.8%) because St. Louis and KC obviously vote blue, and most people who are classically “rural Midwest” benefit from progressive policies. People who follow American politics closely probably realize it’s a no brainer, but get caught up in the idea of red or blue states. A lot of rural Midwest stereotypical red voters are not opposed to the idea of voting for a democrat, but don’t get effectively campaigned to like people in swing states are. Obviously unc is correct that racism/ sexism does play a role, but I think actually reaching out to some of these people would be way more effective than most Americans think it would be.
How can you say racism played a role when obama was prez for 8 years?? How can you say sexism played a role when hillary won the popular vote?? Kamala was a shit candidate thats why the dems got obliterated 😂
You had a fantastic senate candidate who did everything he could to frame populist and popular progressive policies in ways that wouldn't turn off Republicans, and you reelected a seditionist who doesn't even live in Missouri. I don't think the gun range gaffe explains how he lost.
I think her being a woman was a factor. All the trump voters I talked to just keep saying "she is just too far left" which I think is crazy because she ran such a central campaign. Many other voters said "prices were better under Trump" thinking he has some sort of plan to make things cost less. None of them think the Mass Deportations, abortion restrictions, or Tariffs are real. They thought Kamala was going to be the same old Democrat that says a lot and does nothing. It's sad
No we knew mass deportation was real and voted for it knowing he would actually do it, and we know that the president has no plan on even touching the abortion issue. That is completely up to each state and the president doesn’t personally have the authority to change that. Obama deported over 5 million illegals, protecting our borders is not some extreme right wing idea. People wanted change and they heard what Kamala said when asked what exactly she would different than Biden. Her being a woman or a black woman had no bearing on the vast majority of people that voted for Trump. They think about gender and race far less than the people who accuse them of voting against someone only because of those specific factors. The American people in general are just tired of bias mainstream media narratives and identity politics and they just want affordable gas and groceries and safe neighborhoods and they didn’t believe the democrat party would be the best choice for them.
I didn't vote Trump because she's "too far left" I voted for him because in 2016 when he was president the first time, he did a lot of good for the country
Here's the thing: SHE WAS GOING TO BE MORE OF THE SAME! How else do you think she wasn't when, on national TV, explicitly said that she wouldn't change a damn thing from how Biden ran things? I don't see how anyone thought she could've won.
Lmao do y’all ever look in the mirror, the whole democrat party has gone too far left, the last moderate democrat was Bill Clinton, plus we no longer have pro life democrats like Jimmy carter or Al gore
@@FrenziedFury me either
You are the first person I have heard office my thoughts on the day after the election. I said girl who came down to racism and misogyny, and all these people who we know are the very ones who couldn’t bring themselves to make the right choice for themselves. And here we are. Everyone will suffer for the next 4, except those who are rich/wealthy. But their families will Too