• Resonosity@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Who said Lefts didn’t vote for Harris?

    Are you manufacturing this? Where are the exit polls?

    Might a better reason for why Fascism won with this election be that Democrats, including Biden, Harris, the DNC, and the consulting class, failed to campaign to their own base, and even more than their base since most Americans, Dems and Reps, approve of progressive policies?

    Projection man

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      5 months ago

      Biden got ~81m votes in 2020, Harris only got ~67m. >14m fewer people voted for her.

      Trump also dropped by ~2m, only getting ~72m this time around vs. ~74m in 2020.

      Trump didn’t win because of a giant right-wing national shift, he won because of voter apathy on the left.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        There was certainly a right wing shift. The DNC did their very best (e.g. Cheney) to capture republican voters rather than represent the workers.

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          5 months ago

          You need to seperate out the political machine from the populace.

          The DNC did make a right-ward play to try and peel centrist/moderate voters who identify as Republicans but didn’t necessarily want to vote for Trump. They did this on the (now we know false) assumption that their base would turn out automagically.

          But again, Trump won with fewer votes this time around than he lost in 2020 to Biden with. He didn’t gain standing, the only reason he was victorious was because those left of centre failed to show up to the polls. Voter apathy doesn’t denote a right-wing shift; it denotes a shit political platform.

          Voters are still voting rather progressively on state-wide ballot measures, the people haven’t gotten more conservative - despite what the (elite-owned) media narrative would have you believe. Every datapoint and infographic regarding voter demographics is based on %s of voters, rather than absolute demographics.