#presidential-election-2024 — Public Fediverse posts

#Trump is not have all the mentals. #McDonald’s. Water. Sir! (Very strong.): An examination of the #president's cognitive functioning at Monday’s McDonald’s summit.

https://flatturtle.link/pPJhx

#USA #wtf #PresidentialElection2024 #trumpLies

#Trump is not have all the mentals. #McDonald’s. Water. Sir! (Very strong.): An examination of the #president's cognitive functioning at Monday’s McDonald’s summit.

https://flatturtle.link/pPJhx

#USA #wtf #PresidentialElection2024 #trumpLies

The VP, the U.S. could have had The presidential candidate the U.S.
got as HHS secretary

Gus Walz: "Just regular old dad, lets grandkids swim in sewage
vacuuming the car. […] I'm proud of my
dad"

#uspol #politics #TimWalz #GuzWalz #rfk_jr #USPresidentialElection2024 #PresidentialElection2024 #SecondTrumpAdministration #Project2025 #MAGA #RockCreek #RockCreekDC

The VP, the U.S. could have had The presidential candidate the U.S.
got as HHS secretary

Gus Walz: "Just regular old dad, lets grandkids swim in sewage
vacuuming the car. […] I'm proud of my
dad"

#uspol #politics #TimWalz #GuzWalz #rfk_jr #USPresidentialElection2024 #PresidentialElection2024 #SecondTrumpAdministration #Project2025 #MAGA #RockCreek #RockCreekDC

@georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"

Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try

#Bothsiderism #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #uspol #politics

@georgetakei Like with the last election people treat this as two equal options
"Both sides have their experts"
"Both sides have corrupt politicians"

Seeing what we have seen with the #PresidentialElection2024, the #SecondTrumpAdministration, the #TradeWar2025/ #TrumpTariffs, and #DOGE, people just don't realize that, unlike in the past, there's only one real option and then there's doom. That's beyond comparison, yet they try

#Bothsiderism #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #uspol #politics

U.S. Treasury sanctions Russian and Iranian entities for interfering in the presidential election – Source: securityaffairs.com https://ciso2ciso.com/u-s-treasury-sanctions-russian-and-iranian-entities-for-interfering-in-the-presidential-election-source-securityaffairs-com/ #Presidentialelection2024 #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #informationsecuritynews #ITInformationSecurity #Lawsandregulations #SecurityAffairscom #CyberSecurityNews #PierluigiPaganini #SecurityAffairs #disinformation #BreakingNews

U.S. Treasury sanctions Russian and Iranian entities for interfering in the presidential election – Source: securityaffairs.com https://ciso2ciso.com/u-s-treasury-sanctions-russian-and-iranian-entities-for-interfering-in-the-presidential-election-source-securityaffairs-com/ #Presidentialelection2024 #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #informationsecuritynews #ITInformationSecurity #Lawsandregulations #SecurityAffairscom #CyberSecurityNews #PierluigiPaganini #SecurityAffairs #disinformation #BreakingNews

"In this conjuncture, Democrats and other center-left parties around the world have a fundamental choice to make: continue to play the role of the loyal opposition in a political order defined primarily by the populist right, or mobilize a transformative ideological vision, viable electoral coalition, and distinctive set of policies capable of defining the political order itself.

Choosing the latter will require accepting the failure of the popular front general election strategy Democrats have embraced for the past three presidential cycles. A coalition that, as Tim Walz bragged, ranges “from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift” will always be about defending the status quo, nor does it actually succeed in pulling Republican voters across the aisle. Even party apparatchik Rahm Emanuel can now admit that the status quo is broken and no longer defendable.

No doubt, the transformative choice is a tougher climb for Democrats. For decades, they have avoided spending the political capital necessary to push through legislation that would make it easier to form private sector unions, challenge business power, and foster a progressive social base at the heart of the party. There are some signs that an increasing number of Democrats are amenable to filibuster reform, which would lower the legislative hurdles to pro-labor legislation, and Biden did take significant though symbolic action to establish himself as a pro-union president.

But establishing a new political order requires more than just good policy. It means nothing less than resetting the very boundaries of politics and making what once seemed impossible possible."

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/democrats-blame-game-populism-postelection

#USA #DemocraticParty #Populism #Politics #Elections #PresidentialElection2024

"In this conjuncture, Democrats and other center-left parties around the world have a fundamental choice to make: continue to play the role of the loyal opposition in a political order defined primarily by the populist right, or mobilize a transformative ideological vision, viable electoral coalition, and distinctive set of policies capable of defining the political order itself.

Choosing the latter will require accepting the failure of the popular front general election strategy Democrats have embraced for the past three presidential cycles. A coalition that, as Tim Walz bragged, ranges “from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift” will always be about defending the status quo, nor does it actually succeed in pulling Republican voters across the aisle. Even party apparatchik Rahm Emanuel can now admit that the status quo is broken and no longer defendable.

No doubt, the transformative choice is a tougher climb for Democrats. For decades, they have avoided spending the political capital necessary to push through legislation that would make it easier to form private sector unions, challenge business power, and foster a progressive social base at the heart of the party. There are some signs that an increasing number of Democrats are amenable to filibuster reform, which would lower the legislative hurdles to pro-labor legislation, and Biden did take significant though symbolic action to establish himself as a pro-union president.

But establishing a new political order requires more than just good policy. It means nothing less than resetting the very boundaries of politics and making what once seemed impossible possible."

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/democrats-blame-game-populism-postelection

#USA #DemocraticParty #Populism #Politics #Elections #PresidentialElection2024

"This article is based on interviews with 11 Harris campaign staff members and volunteers who were directly involved in organizing the stealth efforts in the weeks before the election, most of whom insisted on anonymity to talk candidly about internal campaign matters. The New York Times also spoke with more than 20 other campaign officials, volunteers, Democratic Party operatives and elected leaders who were involved in voter outreach around the country and described how it fell short.
The covert operations, many of them led by Black organizers, represented extraordinary acts of insubordination against the Harris campaign.

Campaign organizers in Philadelphia said they were told not to engage in the bread-and-butter tasks of getting out the vote in Black and Latino neighborhoods, such as attending community events, registering new voters, building relationships with local leaders and calling voters.

Instead, they said, they were instructed to spend most of their days phoning the same small pool of volunteers and asking them to knock on voters’ doors and help run field offices. The strategy essentially turned experienced organizers into glorified telemarketers making hundreds of calls daily, with some harried volunteers begging to be taken off call lists."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/harris-philadelphia-black-latino-voters.html

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #Philadelphia

"This article is based on interviews with 11 Harris campaign staff members and volunteers who were directly involved in organizing the stealth efforts in the weeks before the election, most of whom insisted on anonymity to talk candidly about internal campaign matters. The New York Times also spoke with more than 20 other campaign officials, volunteers, Democratic Party operatives and elected leaders who were involved in voter outreach around the country and described how it fell short.
The covert operations, many of them led by Black organizers, represented extraordinary acts of insubordination against the Harris campaign.

Campaign organizers in Philadelphia said they were told not to engage in the bread-and-butter tasks of getting out the vote in Black and Latino neighborhoods, such as attending community events, registering new voters, building relationships with local leaders and calling voters.

Instead, they said, they were instructed to spend most of their days phoning the same small pool of volunteers and asking them to knock on voters’ doors and help run field offices. The strategy essentially turned experienced organizers into glorified telemarketers making hundreds of calls daily, with some harried volunteers begging to be taken off call lists."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/harris-philadelphia-black-latino-voters.html

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #Philadelphia

"Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.

The analysis of new election data from the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows the increasingly heavy influence of the tech industry in US elections. Advocates of cryptocurrency were particularly active in this election as they fought to stave off regulation, pumping money into the presidential campaigns and key congressional races.

The donors came from tech’s biggest companies: Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Netflix. Others were powerful venture capitalists who had made billions from investing in tech."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #BigTech #Crypto #Plutocracy

"Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year, according to a Guardian analysis, the bulk of it coming from an enormous donation of about $243m Elon Musk made to Donald Trump’s campaign.

The analysis of new election data from the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows the increasingly heavy influence of the tech industry in US elections. Advocates of cryptocurrency were particularly active in this election as they fought to stave off regulation, pumping money into the presidential campaigns and key congressional races.

The donors came from tech’s biggest companies: Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Netflix. Others were powerful venture capitalists who had made billions from investing in tech."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #BigTech #Crypto #Plutocracy

"Progressives, Yglesias says, are “detached from practical reality.” But here we have someone who advocates readying ourselves for a war with China, even if in doing so America hurts itself economically, who wants to embrace fossil fuels without taking climate science seriously (he thinks beating China is also more important than climate change), and whose political advice for Kamala Harris was that “she should pivot to the center” (she did, and got creamed). I think it’s very clear we should not listen to such a person, and that if America is to have a future worth living in, guys like this are going to have to be ignored. Because Yglesias, for all that I’ve dwelt on him personally, is not the only smug centrist in the world. There is an entire class of people like him, all posturing as experts, consultants, and pundits of one kind or another. And these people try to pass themselves off as merely offering data and common sense, when many of their positions ignore relevant data and conflict entirely with basic common sense. We should show the same level of respect for the opinions of Matt Yglesias and his ilk that he shows for the “socialist niece who posts obsessively about Genocide Joe,” that is to say, none at all."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opinions-of-matt-yglesias-should-be-ignored

#USA #DemocraticParty #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #RadicalCentrism

"Progressives, Yglesias says, are “detached from practical reality.” But here we have someone who advocates readying ourselves for a war with China, even if in doing so America hurts itself economically, who wants to embrace fossil fuels without taking climate science seriously (he thinks beating China is also more important than climate change), and whose political advice for Kamala Harris was that “she should pivot to the center” (she did, and got creamed). I think it’s very clear we should not listen to such a person, and that if America is to have a future worth living in, guys like this are going to have to be ignored. Because Yglesias, for all that I’ve dwelt on him personally, is not the only smug centrist in the world. There is an entire class of people like him, all posturing as experts, consultants, and pundits of one kind or another. And these people try to pass themselves off as merely offering data and common sense, when many of their positions ignore relevant data and conflict entirely with basic common sense. We should show the same level of respect for the opinions of Matt Yglesias and his ilk that he shows for the “socialist niece who posts obsessively about Genocide Joe,” that is to say, none at all."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opinions-of-matt-yglesias-should-be-ignored

#USA #DemocraticParty #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #RadicalCentrism

"Any honest accounting has to begin with the fact that the biggest burden on Harris’ candidacy was the fact that it began in July 2024, rather than April 2023 — a reality created by Biden’s insistence on running for reelection after he aggressively signaled he would serve a single term in office. Only one halfway credible challenger emerged to raise questions about this decision, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who was recruited into the race by Steve Schmidt. “What Joe Biden did was the greatest act of egotism in American history,” Schmidt says. “And it was supported and sustained by a relatively small handful of powerful people.” (Schmidt places Biden strategists Anita Dunn and Steve Ricchetti, as well as First Lady Jill Biden and the Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at the top of that list.)

Multiple who spoke with Rolling Stone agreed that while Harris’ biggest handicap was the position Biden put her in, her first failure as a candidate was her inability or refusal to differentiate herself from the president. “If there only was a thing they could have done, it would have been to make a loud and clean break,” says one strategist who worked to elect Harris. (On Pod Save America, Cutter credited that choice to Harris herself: “She felt like she was part of the administration, so why should she look back… and cherry pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it?”)

Harris’ early candidacy, in that strategist’s view, was characterized by a particular and irreverent vibe that generated a lot of enthusiasm among the Democratic base. But that enthusiasm, in this person’s view, quickly dampened after a convention marred by a prominent fight over the war in Gaza and a pledge to ensure America had “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,” followed by weeks of aggressive overtures to woo Republican voters."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kamala-harris-what-went-wrong-1235183829/

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #Biden #DemocraticParty

"Any honest accounting has to begin with the fact that the biggest burden on Harris’ candidacy was the fact that it began in July 2024, rather than April 2023 — a reality created by Biden’s insistence on running for reelection after he aggressively signaled he would serve a single term in office. Only one halfway credible challenger emerged to raise questions about this decision, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who was recruited into the race by Steve Schmidt. “What Joe Biden did was the greatest act of egotism in American history,” Schmidt says. “And it was supported and sustained by a relatively small handful of powerful people.” (Schmidt places Biden strategists Anita Dunn and Steve Ricchetti, as well as First Lady Jill Biden and the Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at the top of that list.)

Multiple who spoke with Rolling Stone agreed that while Harris’ biggest handicap was the position Biden put her in, her first failure as a candidate was her inability or refusal to differentiate herself from the president. “If there only was a thing they could have done, it would have been to make a loud and clean break,” says one strategist who worked to elect Harris. (On Pod Save America, Cutter credited that choice to Harris herself: “She felt like she was part of the administration, so why should she look back… and cherry pick some things that she would have done differently when she was part of it?”)

Harris’ early candidacy, in that strategist’s view, was characterized by a particular and irreverent vibe that generated a lot of enthusiasm among the Democratic base. But that enthusiasm, in this person’s view, quickly dampened after a convention marred by a prominent fight over the war in Gaza and a pledge to ensure America had “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,” followed by weeks of aggressive overtures to woo Republican voters."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kamala-harris-what-went-wrong-1235183829/

#USA #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #Biden #DemocraticParty

"While there are differences across the cities, a POLITICO analysis found the greatest decline in voter participation in all six appears to be in predominantly low-income Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. There were some shifts toward Trump, but it was ultimately the turnout drop in staunchly Democratic precincts that had the greatest impact on urban margins.

The analysis of nearly 3,000 precincts — the most granular election results available for the biggest cities in six of the presidential battleground states — across Philadelphia, Atlanta, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Las Vegas paints a vivid picture for why Harris lost ground. (Complete precinct results for Detroit, the biggest city in Michigan, were not available as of Friday.)

How individual voters cast their ballots is not known, but stark residential segregation along lines of race and class suggests clear patterns in which voters swung toward Trump the most, and who stayed home this time.

For instance, Trump received nearly 3,400 more votes than he had in 2020 across the 476 “predominantly Black” precincts in the six cities, defined for POLITICO’s analysis as places where at least 85 percent of residents are Black. But Harris received about 17,500 fewer than Biden had, a far greater impact on the overall margins."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/23/city-turnout-black-hispanic-neighborhoods-00191354

#USA #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty

"While there are differences across the cities, a POLITICO analysis found the greatest decline in voter participation in all six appears to be in predominantly low-income Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. There were some shifts toward Trump, but it was ultimately the turnout drop in staunchly Democratic precincts that had the greatest impact on urban margins.

The analysis of nearly 3,000 precincts — the most granular election results available for the biggest cities in six of the presidential battleground states — across Philadelphia, Atlanta, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Las Vegas paints a vivid picture for why Harris lost ground. (Complete precinct results for Detroit, the biggest city in Michigan, were not available as of Friday.)

How individual voters cast their ballots is not known, but stark residential segregation along lines of race and class suggests clear patterns in which voters swung toward Trump the most, and who stayed home this time.

For instance, Trump received nearly 3,400 more votes than he had in 2020 across the 476 “predominantly Black” precincts in the six cities, defined for POLITICO’s analysis as places where at least 85 percent of residents are Black. But Harris received about 17,500 fewer than Biden had, a far greater impact on the overall margins."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/23/city-turnout-black-hispanic-neighborhoods-00191354

#USA #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty

"Jacobin looked at hundreds of speeches, rallies, press gaggles, and interview transcripts to trace Harris’s messaging over the course of the campaign and the relative emphasis she placed on a variety of issues and policies. We looked at how frequently Harris used certain phrases in campaign messaging as a proxy for her emphasis on various issue areas or policy sets. Our analysis reveals that the Harris campaign pivoted away from the economy starting around mid-September, de-emphasizing policies that she had previously advocated and moving away from an adversarial stance toward elites. This parallels investigative reporting, which finds that the last weeks of the campaign were increasingly directed by the very same corporate interests that she abstained from criticizing.

Over the course of the whole campaign, Harris spoke less about economic issues and progressive economic policy priorities than Joe Biden had in 2020, and far less than Sanders had in the Democratic primaries that year. In this cycle, Trump addressed perhaps the most important issue for voters — prices and the cost of living — more than twice as often as Harris."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/harris-campaign-economic-populism-democracy

#USA #KamalaHarris #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #EconomicPopulism

"Jacobin looked at hundreds of speeches, rallies, press gaggles, and interview transcripts to trace Harris’s messaging over the course of the campaign and the relative emphasis she placed on a variety of issues and policies. We looked at how frequently Harris used certain phrases in campaign messaging as a proxy for her emphasis on various issue areas or policy sets. Our analysis reveals that the Harris campaign pivoted away from the economy starting around mid-September, de-emphasizing policies that she had previously advocated and moving away from an adversarial stance toward elites. This parallels investigative reporting, which finds that the last weeks of the campaign were increasingly directed by the very same corporate interests that she abstained from criticizing.

Over the course of the whole campaign, Harris spoke less about economic issues and progressive economic policy priorities than Joe Biden had in 2020, and far less than Sanders had in the Democratic primaries that year. In this cycle, Trump addressed perhaps the most important issue for voters — prices and the cost of living — more than twice as often as Harris."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/harris-campaign-economic-populism-democracy

#USA #KamalaHarris #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #EconomicPopulism

The news since last week: "#Trump doing xyz—what does that mean for us?"

You had the chance to report on that ever since Trump was Republican nominee. Doing it now is old hat, sorry to bring it to you. If there's anyone who wasn't aware of that before election day, they are already a lost cause to begin with.

#PresidentialElection2024 #USElection2024 #DonaldTrump

The news since last week: "#Trump doing xyz—what does that mean for us?"

You had the chance to report on that ever since Trump was Republican nominee. Doing it now is old hat, sorry to bring it to you. If there's anyone who wasn't aware of that before election day, they are already a lost cause to begin with.

#PresidentialElection2024 #USElection2024 #DonaldTrump

• High grocery prices helped #convictedFelon #DonaldTrump win #PresidentialElection2024.
• Climate crisis will make prices worse.
• Trump doesn't believe there is a climate crisis & will do nothing.
• Prices will not get better under Trump.
∴ We will all see those who voted for him have sacrificed everything FOR NOTHING.

https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/113475685768390253

#USPolitics @uspolitics

"A review of the preliminary voting data, using The Washington Post’s Post Pulse models of the outstanding vote, shows that Trump’s victory was modest, as was the likely realignment in the electorate. The story of the 2024 election may turn out to be the changes in who didn’t vote rather than those who did.

Let’s drill down, starting at the national level.

It is likely that, when all of the votes are counted, Trump will have received about half of the votes cast, beating Vice President Kamala Harris by about a percentage point. As a function of the two-party vote, Trump’s popular vote victory — his first — will probably be the smallest since Al Gore received more votes than George W. Bush in 2000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/12/what-numbers-actually-say-about-2024-election/

#USA #Trump #Politics #Elections #PresidentialElection2024 #Turnout

"A review of the preliminary voting data, using The Washington Post’s Post Pulse models of the outstanding vote, shows that Trump’s victory was modest, as was the likely realignment in the electorate. The story of the 2024 election may turn out to be the changes in who didn’t vote rather than those who did.

Let’s drill down, starting at the national level.

It is likely that, when all of the votes are counted, Trump will have received about half of the votes cast, beating Vice President Kamala Harris by about a percentage point. As a function of the two-party vote, Trump’s popular vote victory — his first — will probably be the smallest since Al Gore received more votes than George W. Bush in 2000."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/12/what-numbers-actually-say-about-2024-election/

#USA #Trump #Politics #Elections #PresidentialElection2024 #Turnout

"Nearly half" isn't good enough is it‽ It's saying "not enough", but sounds vaguely positive. Look at #KamalaHarris' campaign in #PresidentialElection2024. She got "nearly half" of the popular vote. What did that do? It made #convictedFelon #DonaldTrump the winner, that's what. I hope she could govern CA, but she'd better work hard & be CERTAIN about winning.
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/u.s.-6tjik97dz/-/a--adBVIJVT0G2oZvPqzsjzw%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
#USPolitics

I'm really starting to think that the Democratic Party is irrecoverable... Maybe even less than the Republican Party?

"Economic realignment has been under way for some time, but hastened in this election. The Democratic party now appears to be the party of high-income voters, not those with low incomes.

For the first time in decades, Democrats received more support from Americans in the top third of the income bracket than from poorer groups, according to a Financial Times analysis of voter surveys.

In contrast to 2020, the majority of lower-income households or those earning less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump this election. Conversely, those making more than $100,000 voted for Harris, according to exit polls."

https://www.ft.com/content/6de668c7-64e9-4196-b2c5-9ceca966fe3f

#USA #Trump #KamalaHarris #PresidentialElection2024 #DemocraticParty #ClassWarfare #WorkingClass

I'm really starting to think that the Democratic Party is irrecoverable... Maybe even less than the Republican Party?

"Economic realignment has been under way for some time, but hastened in this election. The Democratic party now appears to be the party of high-income voters, not those with low incomes.

For the first time in decades, Democrats received more support from Americans in the top third of the income bracket than from poorer groups, according to a Financial Times analysis of voter surveys.

In contrast to 2020, the majority of lower-income households or those earning less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump this election. Conversely, those making more than $100,000 voted for Harris, according to exit polls."

https://www.ft.com/content/6de668c7-64e9-4196-b2c5-9ceca966fe3f

#USA #Trump #KamalaHarris #PresidentialElection2024 #DemocraticParty #ClassWarfare #WorkingClass

"There is not one kind of Trump voter. Of course there are the Nazis, the alt-right, the hyper-misogynist and hyper-racist—all those who feast on Trump’s wild promises, noxious insults, and boorish ways. There are those animated by hatred for the “libs,” whose contempt or mere disregard they absorb daily. There are Christians, Zionists, and even (late-breaking) Muslims who expect Trump to serve their cause better than the Biden–Harris regime did. There are those who want the southern border of the country fortified and recent migrants deported. There are small business owners who want lower taxes and fewer restrictions, and former mining and industrial workers who want jobs that would pay what union-protected ones did.

But none of them fully account for Trump’s historic triumph—the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004. What does? Three things: Trump’s economic populism in a context in which the Democrats have become the party of the elite; the exhaustion of liberal democracy as a viable or trusted form; and the destruction of education, especially higher education, in the United States."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-party-out-of-touch/

#USA #Trump #DemocraticParty #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #LiberalDemocracy #Populism #Education #HigherEd #Liberalism #Neoliberalism #Democracy

"There is not one kind of Trump voter. Of course there are the Nazis, the alt-right, the hyper-misogynist and hyper-racist—all those who feast on Trump’s wild promises, noxious insults, and boorish ways. There are those animated by hatred for the “libs,” whose contempt or mere disregard they absorb daily. There are Christians, Zionists, and even (late-breaking) Muslims who expect Trump to serve their cause better than the Biden–Harris regime did. There are those who want the southern border of the country fortified and recent migrants deported. There are small business owners who want lower taxes and fewer restrictions, and former mining and industrial workers who want jobs that would pay what union-protected ones did.

But none of them fully account for Trump’s historic triumph—the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004. What does? Three things: Trump’s economic populism in a context in which the Democrats have become the party of the elite; the exhaustion of liberal democracy as a viable or trusted form; and the destruction of education, especially higher education, in the United States."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-party-out-of-touch/

#USA #Trump #DemocraticParty #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #LiberalDemocracy #Populism #Education #HigherEd #Liberalism #Neoliberalism #Democracy

"Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.

I have been writing about these things for 20 years, and I have begun to doubt that any combination of financial disaster or electoral chastisement will ever turn on the lightbulb for the liberals. I fear that ’90s-style centrism will march on, by a sociological force of its own, until the parties have entirely switched their social positions and the world is given over to Trumpism.

Can anything reverse it? Only a resolute determination by the Democratic Party to rededicate itself to the majoritarian vision of old: a Great Society of broad, inclusive prosperity. This means universal health care and a higher minimum wage. It means robust financial regulation and antitrust enforcement. It means unions and a welfare state and higher taxes on billionaires, even the cool ones. It means, above all, liberalism as a social movement, as a coming-together of ordinary people — not a series of top-down reforms by well-meaning professionals."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html

#USA #Trump #Politics #DemocraticParty #PresidentialElection2024 #WorkingClass #Populism #ClassWar #Neoliberalism #RadicalCentrism

"Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump’s appeal — and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn’t figure him out.

I have been writing about these things for 20 years, and I have begun to doubt that any combination of financial disaster or electoral chastisement will ever turn on the lightbulb for the liberals. I fear that ’90s-style centrism will march on, by a sociological force of its own, until the parties have entirely switched their social positions and the world is given over to Trumpism.

Can anything reverse it? Only a resolute determination by the Democratic Party to rededicate itself to the majoritarian vision of old: a Great Society of broad, inclusive prosperity. This means universal health care and a higher minimum wage. It means robust financial regulation and antitrust enforcement. It means unions and a welfare state and higher taxes on billionaires, even the cool ones. It means, above all, liberalism as a social movement, as a coming-together of ordinary people — not a series of top-down reforms by well-meaning professionals."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opinion/democrats-trump-elites-centrism.html

#USA #Trump #Politics #DemocraticParty #PresidentialElection2024 #WorkingClass #Populism #ClassWar #Neoliberalism #RadicalCentrism

"In our century, American politics has been blown open by the reverberating crises of neoliberalism and capitalist globalization. They have rebounded on our society and politics in four major forms: imperial blowback and endless warfare; deindustrialization and the hollowing out of American society; the rise of an engorged, predatory, and increasingly insane billionaire class, obsessed with eugenics and immortality; and the climate crisis, now a source of regular natural disasters and swelling refugee flows. At each juncture, the Democrats have attempted restoration: to manage the crisis, carry out the bailout, stitch things back together, and try to get back to normal. It is the form of this orientation, as much as substantive questions of culture, race, and gender, that seems to me the fundamental reason the Democrats are often experienced as a force of inhibition rather than empowerment by so many voters. And it is against this politics of containment that Trump’s obscenity comes to feel like a liberation for so many."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/

#USA #Trump #PresidentialElection2024 #DemocraticParty #Neoliberalism #Globalization

"In our century, American politics has been blown open by the reverberating crises of neoliberalism and capitalist globalization. They have rebounded on our society and politics in four major forms: imperial blowback and endless warfare; deindustrialization and the hollowing out of American society; the rise of an engorged, predatory, and increasingly insane billionaire class, obsessed with eugenics and immortality; and the climate crisis, now a source of regular natural disasters and swelling refugee flows. At each juncture, the Democrats have attempted restoration: to manage the crisis, carry out the bailout, stitch things back together, and try to get back to normal. It is the form of this orientation, as much as substantive questions of culture, race, and gender, that seems to me the fundamental reason the Democrats are often experienced as a force of inhibition rather than empowerment by so many voters. And it is against this politics of containment that Trump’s obscenity comes to feel like a liberation for so many."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/

#USA #Trump #PresidentialElection2024 #DemocraticParty #Neoliberalism #Globalization

"Bodies in graves and jails across America disprove it. We’re freedom-loving when times are easy, devoted to speech and worship we like with lip service to the rest, and divided about our differences since our inception. That doesn’t make us worse than any other nation. It’s all very human. But faith in the inherent goodness of Americans has failed us. Too many people saw it as a self-evident truth that the despicable rhetoric and policy of Trump and his acolytes was un-American. But to win elections you still have to talk people out of evil things. You can’t just trust them to reject evil. You must persuade. You must work. You have to keep making the same arguments about the same values over and over again, defend the same ground every time. Sometimes, when people are afraid or suffering and more vulnerable to lies, it’s very hard. Trump came wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross (upside down, but still) and too many people assumed their fellow Americans would see how hollow that was. That assumption was fatal."

#USA #Politics #Trump #PresidentialElection2024 #Trumpism

https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves

"Bodies in graves and jails across America disprove it. We’re freedom-loving when times are easy, devoted to speech and worship we like with lip service to the rest, and divided about our differences since our inception. That doesn’t make us worse than any other nation. It’s all very human. But faith in the inherent goodness of Americans has failed us. Too many people saw it as a self-evident truth that the despicable rhetoric and policy of Trump and his acolytes was un-American. But to win elections you still have to talk people out of evil things. You can’t just trust them to reject evil. You must persuade. You must work. You have to keep making the same arguments about the same values over and over again, defend the same ground every time. Sometimes, when people are afraid or suffering and more vulnerable to lies, it’s very hard. Trump came wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross (upside down, but still) and too many people assumed their fellow Americans would see how hollow that was. That assumption was fatal."

#USA #Politics #Trump #PresidentialElection2024 #Trumpism

https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves

With the presidential election over, a lot of families are going to have an awkward Thanksgiving this year. Anyway, here's Don 'Carver' Trump and the turkeys who voted for him.
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You know what? It's not just the first convicted criminal president, it's a #WEIRD one. Spread the word!

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You know what? It's not just the first convicted criminal president, it's a #WEIRD one. Spread the word!

#weirdPresident #uspol #politics #USelections2024 #PresidentialElection2024 #Trump #DonaldTrump

"My hope is that Harris’s loss might prompt the Democratic Party to reflect on its own name. Founded by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren as an anti-elite vehicle, the party of what they called “the democracy” is supposed to embrace, well, democracy. That means elevating people to the highest levels of power only after robust debate, fierce competition, and the consent of rank-and-file members.

By installing a candidate without convictions, the Democrats have lost yet another winnable election to Trump—a deeply flawed man whom a capable opponent could have easily overcome. If they want to win again in four years, Democrats need to learn to trust the American people and the democratic process. That means a robust presidential primary and candidates who are fully transparent about their strengths and weaknesses. The Democratic Party lost this election by abandoning democracy. It can retake the White House in four years by learning to love it again."

https://www.compactmag.com/article/kamala-harriss-democratic-betrayal/

#USA #Politics #DemocraticParty #KamalaHarris #PresidentialElection2024

"My hope is that Harris’s loss might prompt the Democratic Party to reflect on its own name. Founded by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren as an anti-elite vehicle, the party of what they called “the democracy” is supposed to embrace, well, democracy. That means elevating people to the highest levels of power only after robust debate, fierce competition, and the consent of rank-and-file members.

By installing a candidate without convictions, the Democrats have lost yet another winnable election to Trump—a deeply flawed man whom a capable opponent could have easily overcome. If they want to win again in four years, Democrats need to learn to trust the American people and the democratic process. That means a robust presidential primary and candidates who are fully transparent about their strengths and weaknesses. The Democratic Party lost this election by abandoning democracy. It can retake the White House in four years by learning to love it again."

https://www.compactmag.com/article/kamala-harriss-democratic-betrayal/

#USA #Politics #DemocraticParty #KamalaHarris #PresidentialElection2024

It's the Economy, it's always the Economy! Marx is Alive and Kicking!!

"For years now, voters have been telling pollsters that they were fed up with the economy, and poll after poll during this campaign registered them saying it was the issue that would most decide their vote, especially among those who were leaning toward Trump. This held across last night’s exit polls. Across all seven battleground states and nationally, survey results were virtually the same: voters viewed the economy as the most important issue in the election; they felt their personal financial situation was worse and they thought so at significantly higher rates than they did in 2020; and huge majorities of those who voted for Trump viewed the economy negatively, considered it the election’s most pressing issue, and voted for the person they thought was going to bring “change.”

This is exactly what many undecided voters who broke for Trump had been telling reporters in advance of the vote: that they didn’t necessarily like the former president, but they were disturbed by Harris’s inability to offer a change from Biden’s presidency. One eighteen-year-old first-time voter in Milwaukee picked Trump at the top of the ticket despite generally preferring Democrats and voting for them downballot because “I’m mainly worried about economics.”

In other words, what happened last night was not just predictable but entirely typical in the history of US elections: an unpopular incumbent sees his party roundly punished as voters look for change. This is exactly what happened four years ago as well as when Barack Obama won a Democratic trifecta in 2008, when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter nearly thirty years before, and when Franklin Delano Roosevelt first took power nearly fifty years before that."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/election-harris-trump-democrats-strategy/

#USA #Politics #Trump #DemocraticParty #Neoliberalism #PresidentialElection2024

It's the Economy, it's always the Economy! Marx is Alive and Kicking!!

"For years now, voters have been telling pollsters that they were fed up with the economy, and poll after poll during this campaign registered them saying it was the issue that would most decide their vote, especially among those who were leaning toward Trump. This held across last night’s exit polls. Across all seven battleground states and nationally, survey results were virtually the same: voters viewed the economy as the most important issue in the election; they felt their personal financial situation was worse and they thought so at significantly higher rates than they did in 2020; and huge majorities of those who voted for Trump viewed the economy negatively, considered it the election’s most pressing issue, and voted for the person they thought was going to bring “change.”

This is exactly what many undecided voters who broke for Trump had been telling reporters in advance of the vote: that they didn’t necessarily like the former president, but they were disturbed by Harris’s inability to offer a change from Biden’s presidency. One eighteen-year-old first-time voter in Milwaukee picked Trump at the top of the ticket despite generally preferring Democrats and voting for them downballot because “I’m mainly worried about economics.”

In other words, what happened last night was not just predictable but entirely typical in the history of US elections: an unpopular incumbent sees his party roundly punished as voters look for change. This is exactly what happened four years ago as well as when Barack Obama won a Democratic trifecta in 2008, when Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter nearly thirty years before, and when Franklin Delano Roosevelt first took power nearly fifty years before that."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/election-harris-trump-democrats-strategy/

#USA #Politics #Trump #DemocraticParty #Neoliberalism #PresidentialElection2024

Scholzingers Rückgrat:

– 👍🏻 #ChristianLindner entlassen
– 👎🏻 #DonaldTrump gratuliert und Zusammenarbeit zugesichert

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