Contrary to what left-wing optimists had hoped, Democratic nonvoters in 2024 appear to have been less progressive than Democrats who voted. For instance, Democratic nonvoters were 14 points less likely to support banning assault rifles, 20 points less likely to support sending aid to Gaza, 17 points less likely to report believing that slavery and discrimination make it hard for Black Americans, 17 points more likely to support building a border wall with Mexico, 20 points more likely to support the expansion of fossil fuel production, and, sadly for economic populists, 16 points less likely to support corporate tax hikes (though this group still favored corporate tax hikes by a three to one margin). Overall, nonvoting Democrats were 18 points less likely to self-identify as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Here is a point for the centrists.
After spending months blaming actual leftists, it turns out it was just regular Democrats that were okay with giving Trump the presidency.
Ah, so next time they should swing to the right harder. Interesting.
(The questions were probably loaded, like “do you support sending aid to Palestinians and Hamas in Gaza?”)
They surveyed people who self-identify as democrats, and I feel like an increasing number of people who identify as leftist or progressive do not, or have stopped, thinking of themselves as democrats. So, to me, the question is whether these conservative, non-voting democrats outnumber the thoroughly disillusioned, non-voting progressive independents.
Oh, that explains it.
Yeah looking at those questions-- If someone asked me if I was “liberal” of “very liberal” I would object to being called liberal at all. Liberal just means centrist anymore.
The “positive anymore” is a Midwestern bane on the English language.
Nowadays. You’re meaning to say nowadays.
Thats impressive. I am from the midwest, you nailed it. I dont suppose you could narrow it down even further could you? The midwest is a large sort of diverse stretch of misery with lots of subcultures. I know if you heard me talk you’d have it pretty quickly.
Sadly, I cannot narrow it down further. I mostly see it written out rather than hear it spoken. And it’s always a generalized Midwest area.
I just find it to be a particularly grating phrase, so it stands out.
Note that they’re less progressive, not not progressive. The data tells a different story than the headline.
Oh no. Thanks. Damn those lying statistics.
You can find the data here. Took a quick glance at the data and didn’t find anything particularly loaded and didn’t see any direct mentions of Gaza but I could have missed something.
Thanks for that, but it feels incomplete. A search in the questionnaire doc finds no instances of Gaza, Israel or “Pales”(should cover Palestinian and Palestine), and one question about gun ownership.
Edit: we’re missing the “team” data questions (their word not mine)