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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 108 points 1 day ago

We also want to congratulate our friends in the Republican party, they played a great game and we can’t wait to work with them more.

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley is excited to see his colleagues at the DNC make the same mistakes over and over.

This is amazing.

“I saw how the DNC ignored voters, I saw how they talked down to people, and that just made my job easy. I go in and say ‘Democrats think you’re dumb, but Republicans think you’re a genius’ and these dopes eat it up like the slop they feed their pigs.

Holy fuck is this even satire anymore? I can literally see a GOP campaign official say that in private.

[-] iwndwyt@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

In private? I can see them saying it on TV and the rubes still voting for them since all they watch is Fox News and they'd never run it.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

The funniest part of this is the idea that there will be an opposition party in anything but a token way after this.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 20 points 23 hours ago
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[-] vordalack@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago

They ran Harris thinking she would win based on her demographics. The DNC needs to learn that not everyone wants a black/LGBTQ/woman/etc candidate that just runs on their race/gender/sexuality.

They want someone that's competent that will campaign on policies that will make their lives better. The DNC has moved so far away from the working class that the RNC, the party of wealthy creeps, has them.

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago

They had no platform other than fear mongering about Trump.

The difference between Harris and Obama was that while Obama was biracial that wasn't the focus of his campaign, his platform was, and he articulated it well. That's the real lesson to take away from Obama's success at the polls not let's run a black person and hope we win.

[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Obama also competed against a deep field of qualified candidates in 2008. He went into the general with momentum of a popular mandate and then won in a landslide.

He would of done nearly as good if he was a white man.

On the flip side, when the republicans lost with Romney in 2012 they did a whole lot of soul searching (rather than blaming the electorate and moving closer to the center to court mythical ‘moderates’ which is the ongoing failed strategy of the democrats), and in 2016 they had an extremely competitive primary where trump came out on top with a mandate as popular with the base as Obama in 2008.

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[-] keegomatic@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

They ran Harris because she was the only viable option when it was clear that Biden was not. They did not run Harris thinking she would win at all, they ran her out of desperation because the incumbent was flatlining. It was not a choice, and it certainly was not one based on demographics. It was a “Hail Mary” and it failed as it was likely to do from the outset, and everyone who was paying attention knew that, yet had no choice but to hope for the best.

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[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 186 points 1 day ago

The reality is even worse. They're going to "learn" all the wrong lessons. They will shift further to the right, like they always do.

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 12 points 21 hours ago

This is unironically true, unfortunately.

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