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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

It wasn't the wrong candidate, it was the wrong campaign.

The Dems stood in front of an electorate crippled by 4 years of rising cost of living and said "Look how good the economy is! GDP is up! Employment is up!" The electorate said "We can't afford eggs," and the Dems said "Shut the fuck up our economy is great how dare you say otherwise you worthless peasant!"

The Dems never stopped to consider that high GDP is meaningless if all the money ends up in the hands of billionaires and high employment is meaningless if everyone is working three jobs to make rent. Biden refused to allow any daylight between himself and Kamala on any issue, so they ended up just presenting a new wrapper on the same shit sandwich.

Trump meanwhile said "I hear you, everything is too expensive. I'll solve it by blaming immigrants and doing some magic involving something called tariffs that I promise will make everything cheaper." Now, none of that is actually a solution, but that didn't matter, because when you yell "Help, I'm drowning!" and one person says "No you're not", while the other says "Yes you are and it's because of brown people..." you don't really listen to anything past the "Yes you are," because the point is they apparently want to help you and the other person doesn't. Trump didn't need to have workable solutions, because the Dems forfeited the entire contest before it even started. Trump just had to show up and sit in the chair.