Rabbits Against Magic by Jonathan Lemon for December 15, 2024

Yeah, let’s start over.

Nope. A critical mass — not a majority, but enough — of voters will never vote for a woman, especially a black woman.

He’s right. Who needs Republican-lite?

Their argument against a draft-dodging womanizer had no teeth.

Racism, bigotry and misogyny defeated Harris.

There were a number of reasons. I would think. Many have been brought up in this thread. I will also add that there was a lot of misinformation used by the Republicans that was not strongly countered by Democrats. It was as if the Dems were giving the Repubs a free pass to malign. I saw very little about the Jan 6 insurrection and Trump’s indictments. I live next to a swing state and saw a lot of Pro Trump and apparently effective ads. Less Harris ads. Again, this may have been more a placement campaign for major effect, but it certainly wasn’t effective in my area.

Someone has been watching the Bernie Sanders’ scolding of the party, one too many times.

This was an election with astoundingly poor messaging by the Democratic Party. It was at least as bad as the $h!t messaging 2020-2024 out of the White House. And the cumulative DP thinking almost always seems to be mired in the same low gear as President Biden’s has been (too tolerant of Covid anti-vax/anti-HHA authority, and support for that agency; too late making decisions about permission for US supplied weapons use in Ukraine; too long not publicly criticizing Netanyahu for IDF Gaza atrocities — to identify only three out of many) and is in dire need of critical self-analysis/correction.

“AAARGH! The Democrats lost the election because too many stupid Republican voters decided that a lying, traitorous, Constitution-abolishing, Bigoted, Woman-abusing, Fascist/Commie/Nazi Convicted Felon was fit to be President!”

republicans never win the popular vote. The only way they get the presidency is the electoral college.

It was a combination of many reasons.