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Summary

Historians suggest Democrats might have fared better against Donald Trump by embracing the economic issues championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long pushed for a focus on “bread-and-butter” concerns for working-class voters.

Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies, polls showed Trump was favored on economic issues, particularly among working-class and Hispanic voters.

Historian Leah Wright Rigueur argued that Sanders’ messaging on economic struggles could be key for future Democratic strategies.

Sanders himself criticized the party for “abandoning” the working class, which he said has led to a loss of support across racial lines.

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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 180 points 1 week ago

More voters should have listened to Bernie.

He told people what to do.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Yes, but people forgot that his real message was to get out there an be the change. Bernie's message was never about relying on or believing in the Democrats, it was that change only happens when we mobilize.

He told us to get out there and run ourselves and get personally involved and invested in our local politics so we can be the revolution.... We just chose not to listen to him.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

People talk about "the Dems" like they are a monolith.

AOC unseated a long term Congress member who was tightly connected to the New York power structure. She did it by hitting the streets and talking to the locals. She built up voter support and won her primary.

I know it's an uphill battle, but it is possible to change things.

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[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is not the voters job to embrace a progressive modern platform nor is it their job to get themselves energized over said policies

But both parties have shoved that false belief down voters throats that is the voters' faults when they fail to deliver

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

Not sure exactly the point you're trying to make, but you're half right. It is a politicians job to convince voters to support their policies, that's true, but it's also equally true that voters should support good policies. While it's not their "job" to do so, they still suffer the consequences for failing to do so all the same. No matter how you slice it, people were stupid to not listen to Bernie all this time.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

In a democracy, it sure as Hell is the voters' job to do all that. And more, for that matter.

In fact, the voters should be controlling the parties (if not abolishing them entirely), not the other way around!

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

No no no, the Democratic Party is some magical uncontrollable entity, we must abandon it, making progressive change infinitely more difficult.

/s if it wasn't obvious. Banana is a bad faith agitator. They desired a GOP victory.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

It was the DNC’s job to be clear about Bernie’s message. I voted for him in the 2016 primary even though I was bombarded with “radical socialist regressive left” Bernie articles in my social media feeds at the time.

Unfortunately, most Americans don’t actively seek out information and just accept the picture painted by the news that’s fed to them.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

It was the DNC’s job to be clear about Bernie’s message.

LOL the DNC has actively fought against Bernie's message.

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[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 146 points 1 week ago

It is absolutely clear now. The DNC is a private company whose main function is to fund raise, period. If they also win an election then that's great, but if it comes to a choice between winning and raising money, they will choose raising money. They will never move to the left to win voters if it will cost them fund raising opportunities from the center and right.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

This honestly makes so much more sense than anything else. I think you nailed it. Republicans are motivated by money and exerting social control so they write up manifestos (p2025), take over the courts, work hard to disenfranchise voters, lie, cheat, anything is on the table. The DNC does indeed seem fairly comfortable with losing by comparison, despite the fact that the leftist ideals they supposedly dabble in create a moral imperative to never lose. I wonder if Republicans fucking pay the DNC money to run these candidates we all know aren't the best. They're just good enough to get votes against mother fucking Trump. But not always good enough to win, barely good enough when they are, typically.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 week ago

In hindsight it seems obvious, but to be honest I really thought Kamala would have fared better.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We all did, you're not wrong.

It's a sad reality we all woke up to on Wednesday. Learning that the majority of Americans are ignorant, racist, misogynistic, selfish assholes.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago

We all did

No, we did not "all" think so, a lot of us have been saying this for quite a while. In fact since at least the 2016 election cycle started in 2015.

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[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

This is what many said in 2016 after Clinton lost but we still did it again in 2020 and yet again in 2024. If I were a betting man I'd say that if there's sill an election worth having in 2028 we'll see another, even further right leaning, centrist Democrat win the nomination.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yoyo look, this guy's fucking nostradamus up in here, right? It's gonna happen just like this.

I'm thinking newsome is the "perfect" candidate for 28.

Whoever it is, I bet you, just like me can't wait to be told how stupid i am and actually great they are by credulous online political minds who call parroting the pundits talking points word-for-word fucking theory

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[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

To me the main takeaway is that I live in a completely separate reality from most voters. I would have voted on a dead dog over Trump. He is mean, narcissistic and never shows any empathy. On top of that he is clearly losing his wits. If a majority of voters prefers a candidate like this, is even enthusiastic to vote for him, what can you do?

I also know that Lemmy skews left, but I think we have to face the fact that most voters have no ability to empathise with those worse off. There is no left wing politics without empathy and solidarity. What most of us here want is dead.

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 75 points 1 week ago

If we had run Bernie in 2016, Trump would still be nothing but a punchline.

[-] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 week ago

The screams of "Dems need to move right" (not from Bernie, obv) are fucking clown shoes and hilarious. She was running around with Liz and Dick Motherfucking Cheney. There's no more right to move to without literally just embracing Trump.

But here's the thing: libs keep cutting their noses off. Why would the actual left give the DNC the fucking time of day? They raise a billion fucking dollars, light it all on fire and go out to brunch. They co-opt movements like the Floyd uprising and metoo but leave everyone else to do the actual work. When we need bodies in the streets, when we need material support, when we fucking TELL THEM WHAT POLICIES WILL WORK FOR US, they spout some 1950s realpolitik bullshit and have some more wine.

Biden: you're immune. Have some fun with it. Show us you have skin I the game. $100 says he keeps up this "when they go low we go high" bullshit and does somewhere between nothing and the bare minimum.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

They raise a billion fucking dollars, light it all on fire and go out to brunch.

This is the most infuriating part, and it made me happy I kept replying STOP to all their fucking "ZOMG 10X MATCHING" texts. They blew all that money and their political consultant cronies made out like bandits. They outraised and outspent Trump and have fuck all to show for it.

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[-] khornechips@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 week ago

That’s great analysis except for one detail… what progressive policies?! Like ceding the “border issue” to the republicans? Like backpedaling on fracking when they needed votes from PA? I voted for her because she was the only option but in no universe was her campaign progressive.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

I think they mean that her running mate did some progressive stuff as governor. Or maybe we're just so far right now that referring to LGBT as if they're human beings counts as being progressive

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The build back better bill had Republicans calling fixing roads instead of letting them collapse progressive. The 'middle' point on infrastructure seems to be 'let some roads and buildings collapse' like that apartment building in Florida. Roads are something even libertarians want the government to do. It literally doesn't matter what dems say, Republicans will have the media calling it progressive to demonize it.

[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

Thats what they get for squeezing Bernie out and giving the people garbage candidates. Eat it, you fools.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

I don't really know how the Democratic Party is expected to steer out of the center-right ditch, though. With all the dark money calling the shots, I mean. Bernie is the exception that proves the rule.

The electorate is actually far more progressive on the issues than the corporate media lets on. But the minute the Democratic Party were to embrace Bernie-style positions? You can bet that not only the "liberal media" would declare this sO vErY eXtReMe, but all the big money would be spending against them, and spending against them hard. Think it's bad now where crypto, Elon, and the Washington Post are tilting against the Democrats? Imagine they actually embraced progressives....

Not saying I love it, I just don't know what the answer is.

[-] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 week ago

At this point maybe the democrats just need to embrace these hard positions and normalize them. The gop doesn't appear to care how radical their stances are and they get votes regardless of the racism. Trump's whole shtick has been normalizing bad behavior and gaslighting the other party into thinking any wrong they do is a gotcha- they're operating on two very different rulesets.

[-] DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Democrats (DNC and donors) don't want to win with a progressive. They'd rather have Trump. They'll never embrace anyone like Bernie.

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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

The thing is, we've seen what the working class wants: Not concrete policy that will help them, but to have their feelings of struggle, outrage, and anger acknowledged and reflected back to them.

The Democrats could have radical pro-worker, pro-working-class reforms in their policy platform, but if what they're broadcasting is "things are great" energy, or "there are bigger fish to fry" energy, then they're going to get ignored.

The Democrat's talking points have focused on the health of American institutions. That's the thing they've repeatedly signalled is most important to them.

It's not what's most important to most households. It's actually pretty far removed from the top of their lists of concerns.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago

You guys need to think of the DNC as more of a for profit business.

From that perspective, they were super successful in making so much money.

Remember, there can be more money made when you intentionally lose, similar to butch in pulp fiction.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Every single text i got had donate in the first sentence. The DNC had a very singular message this cycle and it was donate. It shows the flaws in the system and it shows the flaws in the party. Until i start seeing serious conversations about serious fuckin issues like repealing Citizens United, universal healthcare and proper privacy laws I can no longer consider the DNC a serious organization.

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

We tried. Biden's Build Back Better bill had a lot of pro-working class stuff in it. We just couldn't pass it with Manchin and Sinema resisting.

Details are important.

[-] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 week ago

This is about messaging, not policy. Most people don't really pay attention to actual policy, so it's more about convincing your average Joe you're working for them. Bernie had that, Biden and Harris didn't.

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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago

I think the inherent problem with the build back better deal is it's still framed within the neoliberal trickle down economics of post Regan America.

Would it have increased some workers protections and child care, sure. But it would ultimately be a gift to the shareholders and owners of corporations able to tap into the 3 trillion dollars of funding.

Americans are tired of progressive bills that vicariously improve their lives by further bribing the economic class that actually have their boots on our necks.

People are tired of seeing headlines that the American economy is doing fine while they struggle to put food on the table. Nobody cares if your bosses retirement portfolio is breaking records when they have to pull overtime to maintain the same quality of life they had 20 years ago.

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[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago

Bernie is a leftist politician. The Democrat party is not a liberal leftist party, they're a conservative corporatist party.

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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 34 points 1 week ago

Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies...

Wait, I am not trying to be (overly) mean here but what where they? I just remember her running on a status quo platform.

[-] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

If she was running on a progressive platform I never heard about it

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[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Here were some progressive policies promoted by Harris, which we aren't going to get because people thought Trump would get them cheaper eggs:

Launch a National Health Equity Initiative to address health challenges that disproportionately impact Black men. Take on pharmacy benefit managers Have Medicare cover in-home health care Extend the $35 cap on insulin and $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spending to all Americans Eliminate the filibuster to restore the Roe v. Wade precedent on abortion Ban corporate price gouging on food and groceries Will not raise taxes for those earning less than $400,000 a year Roll back Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans Enact a minimum tax for billionaires Increase the tax rate on long-term capital gains to 28% for those earning at least $1 million a year Expand the child tax credit to $6,000 for families with newborns Quadruple the tax on stock buybacks Provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 for down payments, plus more generous support for first-generation homeowners Build 3 million more rental units and affordable homes Outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords Pass the Equality Act to protect LGBTQ+ Americans from discrimination Ensure that no former president has immunity for crimes committed while in office Require Supreme Court justices to comply with ethics rules Impose term limits on Supreme Court justices Raise the minimum wage Eliminate taxes on tips Establish paid family and medical leave End sub-minimum wages for tipped workers and people with disabilities Double the number of apprenticeships End four-year college degree requirements for federal jobs where appropriate Limit businesses from "unnecessarily" using criminal arrest histories, convictions, and credit scores in employment decisions Sign the pro-labor PRO Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act Generate 25 million new business applications Expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses from $5,000 to $50,000 Increase the share of federal contract dollars going to small businesses Provide 1 million loans to Black entrepreneurs, fully forgivable up to $20,000 Legalize recreational marijuana Enact a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency Extend the expired Affordable Connectivity Program to support internet access

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 21 points 1 week ago

Glancing over that word salad, it looks like a pile of bandaids on capitalism.

Here's a list of actually progressive things that would do what her list would be pretending to do and more:

Universal Healthcare. Wealth cap. Breaking up any corporation that is in more than one industry. Universal education. Complete medical and student debt forgiveness. Complete cessation of aid to governments engaged in war crimes. Complete eradication of for-profit weapon manufacturing. Universal Basic Income.

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[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago
[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

If democrats were capable of listening we wouldnt have two terms of donald trump.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dems imbraced the race to the bottom instead of being a true opposition party. I voted for them this time around but never again unless they make a platform surrounding core left prencipals and left leadership. Many within my communities gave up on political means to help their communities and threw themselves into volunteering, activism, and self sustainability. You can't demand bottomless support and obedience from your base while ignoring their cries for help.

Dems said they are the party of science and facts but wouldn't support universal health care or simply stop sending weapons to Isreal. If they were just as ravenous as republican are, can you honestly say we couldn't achieve those good things?

Dems said the Supreme court and justice system was courupt, but never even investigated the court or made cuts to the militarization of the police forces. Police are still killing people at the same rates with no real accountability. If the Supreme Court was left leaning Republicans would have expanded the court to make it right leaning.

Just do what Republicans do to get there way but for good. I honestly can't think of one dem policy that has been as impactful as some of the top Republican changes in the past 50 years.

Ultimately we need to come together and demand better because if the dems don't change it'll be 50 more years of being steamrolled.

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Honestly, your democratic party is very right wing to most of European. And you saying people give up on politics and turn to sctivism is so sad.

If the government doesn't take care of his poor, minorities, what are they doing.

[-] SoleInvictus 19 points 1 week ago

If the government doesn't take care of his poor, minorities, what are they doing.

Facilitating the transfer of wealth to the richest fraction of the population.

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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 31 points 1 week ago

TIL I'm a fucking historian, apparantly

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[-] bquintb@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I usually vote along with the democrats, but neoliberals are so freaking elitist and clueless. As much as it pisses me off that I'm going to have to deal with whatever fascist bs Trump has in store, it's really quite nice seeing them get their asses handed to them by a populist... It's just too bad it wasn't a left-wing populist.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Shame the Democrats just told Bernie he is wrong. Again.

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