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      I mean, I do wish she was president right now because the world would be a better place. But that statement is also probably true of approximately 8 billion other people.

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          Fair enough, and I wish she was elected over Trump because she was the only other contender. But is she actually the best choice for 2028? The Democrats’ bench sucks, but there are still people I’d prefer over her (who could hopefully actually win a primary). I might take her over Newsome, though.

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              Sigh, The left hates genocide supporters, we admit it.

              You caught us! This guy was too clever for us and found out the secret we never talk about! How did you figure it out, genius?

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          Because the DNC decided to go with (checks notes) the easiest to run centrist candidate who happened to already be there.

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            Most people are centrists and Harris was able to get Biden’s campaign money.

            Anyone else would have had to start off with no money three months before the election.

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              Most people are centrists

              Most people have random contradictory views. Triangulating your policy to be more “centrist” by reducing its scale, adding market mechanisms, and means-testing doesn’t make it appeal to everyone who isn’t extreme left or right, it makes it appeal to nobody.

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                  He was running after 4 years of Trump. And after a primary and events in 2020 that got low-information voters believing democrats supported free healthcare/college, abolishing ICE, continuing covid protections, etc.

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                    People who compare Biden to Clinton and Harris and see gender as the difference are missing the much more obvious difference in that Trump was the (chaotic) status quo. Every election except for Obama 2 has been a “this sucks, do something else”. Biden won, because he was something else, but he didn’t do nearly as well as he should have and he was cruising for a loss in 2024 even before his brain leaked live on stage.

                    And while that would point toward better odds for an uninspiring moderate, I do expect we’ll be in danger of vote suppression and manipulation and can’t trust simple “change” to push literally anyone over the finish line.

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                    Biden turned the economy around and crafted some beautiful policies it was the low-information voters who couldn’t see that and believed that both parties are the same.

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              Incoherent cultural views don’t equal the political centrism of liberal coastal elites which skews tepid and corporate.

              What most people care about is the bottom line i.e. affordability. Centrists just don’t have an appealing answer to that since they are so beholden to capital.

              This is not to say the far right isn’t beholden to capital as well, but they’re shameless enough to campaign on affordability anyway and it’s a huge reason why Trump won.

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          Not really no. Every other human on the planet was equally as likely to be president as Harris, and they all put in about as much effort as Harris and the DNC did.

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              No. The democratic party had 75 million votes.

              Not the candidate.

              Not one single living self aware human being supported Harris running. Harris didn’t even support Harris running hence why she showed up sloppy drunk to almost press conference.

              She was literally one of the worst possible options.

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      I totaly whish she was president now.
      And in that fantasy, I’d also whish for her to get primaried in 2028.

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        Ooo it’d be such a good primary too. Primary soft and then primary HARD!

        Start off with the BS in Iowa, because that’s still a thing for some reason. “Look at me eating corn!” “I’m soooo relatable!”

        Then take the top 8 for a debate and she can just sit her ass on the bench.