“It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home.”
We must not repeat this same mistake again. Remember to always vote in every election and consider volunteering to knock on doors. It can make a difference. There are elections that are decided with just a small number of votes.
People keep ignoring this fact and it really irks me. How many of those Biden voters who didn’t turn out in 2024 would have actually voted for Harris? Every leftist and liberal I heard from were all saying we needed to stop Trump.
For some reason, political analysis keeps glossing over the fact that most USAmericans live in the day-to-day. The country sucks right now, and if you even begin to get into why you lose 40% of your listeners because our social spheres fundamentally curate ignorance.
In a nation as divided and selfish and stupid as the USA, the most popular position is opposition. That’s how Obama beat Bush; how Trump beat neolib Dems; how Biden barely beat Trump barely in 2020 by a few states’ electorates; and how Trump beat the Biden/Harris pairing in 2024.
Even Bernie Sanders, who I would have loved, was running on an opposition platform in 2016 and 2020. Bernie just lost because corporate Dems got the majority of Democrat voters to support Biden, by turning their opposition to Trump into fear that Bernie “just couldn’t win” like an establishment Democrat could.