we could not get them to vote

The 2020 COVID crisis gave us some of the most lax voting laws in the country's history, for a brief and magical window of time. Consequently, voting - particularly mail-in voting - surged nationwide and the nation experienced the biggest turnout in proportion to population to date. Democrats won in a landslide.

Over the next two years, nearly every single state in the country clawed back voting rights and slammed down novel new restrictions. This was under a Democratic Majority and Presidency, with windfalls of state legislatures and gubernatorial wins across the country. Democrats got absolutely shellacked as a result.

2022 midterm turnout plunged under the 2018 level. 2024 Presidential turnout saw liberals - particularly those "purity test" liberals - turned away from the voting booth in droves, by a combination of malicious conservative vote caging / registration purging and liberal administrative apathy. Much like with the reactionary campaign against GOTV groups like ACORN in 2008 and the lawfare conducted by anti-enfranchisement litigators in 2013 and onward, taking anti-VRA cases to the SCOTUS time and time again, the damage was done to turnout before the election began.

Probably didn't help that ruling liberals annulled the possibility of a primary before dumping Harris into the top of the ticket over the objection of the sitting President, too. You'd think they would have known better. But I guess it's just easier to fuck up and blame Palestinian and Transgender voters for your catastrophic defeat, when your Senate and Gubernatorial candidates are outrunning your Presidential nominee by a winning margin of votes.