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Truman’s campaign against the “Do Nothing” Republicans is not the cause, but it’s when these huge majorities for Democrats got cemented in place for decades:
-Harry Truman, Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/129/address-national-convention-banquet-americans-democratic-action
I wish that were true. I might have been in the past, but we have a full third of our population that will not vote for anyone but Trump and a full third that were told over and over about Project 2025 and the Drak Enlightment but stayed home for whatever reason. That left the rest of us yelling till our voices were hoarse.
There's a reason the only candidate drumpf is scared of is Bernie Sanders. My man does exactly what Truman suggested and it works.
Cute you think he's scared of Bernie
Please the Democratic leadership, the DNC, the DCCC, the defacto “party leaders” like the Clintons and Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, RAHM EMANUEL…This element, these people, are at best conciliatory and at worst collaborators. Call them “phony Democrats”, call them whatever you want. I want them to fuck off.
There is a reckoning coming, I think, and neither the Republicans nor the establishment Democrats are going to like it much. There is already an apparent sea change in some critical contests, and the polling data and turnout has been literally unprecedented.
Besides the lame masculinity part (history is surely full of far more men who were cowards as leaders than women) it is true.
There are many reasons turn out was crap, primarily people didn't want Biden shoved down their throat again and Harris didnt have the time or space to differentiate herself.