This makes her “strategy” even more baffling than before. How do you know you are down the entire time and do absolutely nothing about policy?
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She could've swung for the fences on progressive policies, if she knew she was doomed right? Not like anyone would ever be honest about it, but they ran their perfect centrist anti Trumper campaign and lost which has gotta take the shine off that a little. She could've ran on a Bernie style platform, lost and then they could claim "well see it never works let's never do that again"
they dare not suggest that a better world is possible. they just got done shutting that shit down in 2020
They can't risk anyone getting the idea that they support progressive causes.
but is she a progressive? like even a little bit, in private?
No she's not, this would be some weird double bluff play of pretending to be progressive while knowing she's losing in order to lower the already low cachet of progressive electoral politics
No
If she was, she would never have been allowed to be one presidential heart attack away from the presidency herself.
I feel like her political background just isn't a "swing for the fences" one, though. The only thing that would've made her lose worse than she did would've been if she was faking it. People might not be smart about policy and whatnot, but Americans can spot a fake 100 miles away.
Trump was never anything but his most authentic self from the moment he rode down that escalator until today.
Harris trying to go fulll Bernie/ Squad would've failed spectacularly. Because that not what she believes in.
I feel like Trump has said a lot of things that he didn't hold himself to, which is kinda fake behaviour. I think I understand what you mean though, even though I struggle to articulate it
Trumps authentic self is a liar.
The above comment isn't about lying, but about authenticity.
Americans can't necessarily spot a liar a hundred miles away, but they absolutely can spot insincerity a hundred miles away.
I don't think I could handle the distinction in my day to day life
Ehh, Trump himself is 100% a fake. But he's gamed the system to exist as a fluke inside it.
i don't agree that he's a fake. He's a liar, a fraudster, a con man, a grifter, a showman, but always his authentic self as those things.
He doesn't half-ass it like the Democrats do, that's for sure.
They crashed and burned so hard that even the king of libs dunked on the concept of winning centrist votes
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