another US election postmortem
Apropos of nothing, I wrote this out to process some of my own thoughts regarding the 2024 US election.
I think Trump's win was a combination of a lot of things. You've got to remember that for every liberal who was trying to warn voters about fascism and point out all the moral cruelties and logical inconsistencies in Trump's platform, there was a massive far-right media machine ready to deploy disinformation, sane-wash Trump, and tear down Harris/Biden/Dems.
I work with a lot of Trump voters. Some of them are idiot boys who are homophobic, transphobic, racist, and rightly feel "left behind" by the modern world. Some of them are young adults who felt disenfranchised and wanted to be contrarian, and used their vote to express that. Some of them are older folks who are traditionally conservative and grandfathered their previous ideologies into the new MAGA Republican party.
A lot of the last two groups are still good people. I interact with them every day. Some of them I've known for years.
The internet has totally thrown any postmortems. I don't think the election was an indictment on human nature, but rather how insidious the internet has become and how behind the game liberals and Dems are in terms of alternative media. If we can break through those obstacles and establish a fresh, new message for liberalism in America I think we can recover electorally. Just depends on how quickly the establishment Dems will pull their heads out of their ass and finally play ball so the party can come together and build a new bench of players.
✘ Posted on — 02/08/25
✘ Last modified — 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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