- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Summary
In the 2024 election, Democrats excelled with highly engaged voters but lost ground with less-engaged voters, particularly younger, working-class, and non-college-educated individuals.
Vice President Kamala Harris won among voters who closely follow politics by 5 points but trailed Donald Trump by 14 points among less-engaged voters.
Democratic strategists highlighted failures in outreach, reliance on narrow data models, and ineffective messaging.
Critics noted the party’s brand is often defined by extreme voices, while Republicans capitalized on dissatisfaction with the economy and national direction, resonating with everyday frustrations.
It’s about having a coherent message.
What exactly were Kamala’s biggest goals? In other words, if she could accomplish just three things in office, what would those three things have been? Can anyone answer that question? Does anyone know?
Because you certainly can with Trump. He wanted to deport millions of people, raise a bunch of tariffs, and exterminate trans people. Those were the three things he ran on.
What Democrats repeatedly fail to understand is that having a policy paper on your website is NOT THE SAME THING as actually having policy positions. You can’t just point to something on your website, written by a staffer, as what you support.
I voted for Kamala, but I still to this day have not a damn idea what the woman actually stood for. Sure, she had official policies, but she never had any core issues that she hammered on again, and again, and again. She never had an effective ‘elevator pitch’ for why she should be president, other than just that she isn’t Trump.
Democrats need to pick 3-5 things for an election cycle, 3-5 major policy positions. And then they, all of them, need to repeatedly and endlessly hammer home those things.
No Dems did have messages: We love war criminals. Fuck Palestine Fuck immigrants
They’re just… all Republican messages.
Sure they had some other milquetoast ass positions on stuff, but nothing big. No stopping genocide, no health care for all, no overhaul to social security to ensure its success, no overhaul to minimum wage to ensure it’s constantly updated to be a living wage in urban and suburban areas. No getting money out of politics. No positive immigration reform to help legalize those who’ve been working here who prop up the agricultural industry. Nothing big and important that wasn’t a Republican opinion. Because they’ve decided they’d rather be centrist republicans than do anything of use, they’ve done this since after Obama got elected. Hell, if it wasn’t for Obama care and changing opinion on gay marriage idk if Obama would’ve even been re-elected because they sure did a whole lot of nothing outside of that to try and “work with republicans”.
This… Trump had ideals, horrible ones, but he had them. The Democrats simply didn’t…