“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.

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    You’re being reductive. If Biden would have stepped back earlier, if Kamala wouldn’t have coddled Israel, if the dems didn’t cozy up to the Cheneys, if the party could have admitted where mistakes were made and promised to correct them, then dem voters would have felt like there’s a chance for their interests to be represented, then the election would have been a landslide.

    I’m not saying America isn’t misogynistic, but the election loss isn’t solely due to that.

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      I agree with all the criticisms of the Dens, but none of that is worse than Trump. This would be different if we were talking about any other candidate, but we’re talking about a known rapist and scam artist who got actively let people die by a subpar reaction to a pandemic. Over 400,000 people died while Trump was in office during the pandemic.

      After all that, they still voted for him over a woman.