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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because the DNC decided to go with (checks notes) the easiest to run centrist candidate who happened to already be there.
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.
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.
Biden ran almost the same campaign and got the most votes of any american presidential candidate ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’d say short memories and wide-spread lead contamination is why Trump won.
This assumes only Trump voters suffer from lead contamination. It’s not any sort of political analysis.
No I said wide-spread lead contamination for a reason.
That still doesn’t explain why people voted for Trump over Harris if it supposedly affects everyone.