You can’t play Mexican standoff because the Dems have an out: the center voter. If they left doesn’t vote them in, the Dems will go to the center to find voters. And a center voter is worth double because it’s a vote for you plus a vote taken away from the GOP.
She looked at Biden who did left things and what did that get him? Lose the house for years 3 and 4. And polls showed he was going to lose. Aka the left never showed up even after getting some left things.
Harris ran on women’s rights, mf’ing democracy, and while she didn’t say it it was clear there would be continuation of student debt relief, green energy, EVs, infrastructure, etc. But it didn’t work because “it’s the economy, stupid”. The left couldn’t even show up for their own human rights.
Biden did very, very few “left” things. His policies were center-right. (For example, when the railroad workers threatened the economy with a strike, the left-wing response would be to temporarily nationalize the rails; the right-wing response would be to protect the railroad companies and remove the workers’ ability to strike.) Progressives showed up to vote for Harris, anyway, as the numbers show. The mythical “centrists” did not.
Biden: Green energy, EVs, drug price control, PACT act, Chips act, student debt relief, build back better, etc. Rail. That’s just of the top of my head. But it’s always n n n not enough for the left. He did left things but the left wasn’t going to show up. Every. Single. Time.
You can’t play Mexican standoff because the Dems have an out: the center voter. If they left doesn’t vote them in, the Dems will go to the center to find voters. And a center voter is worth double because it’s a vote for you plus a vote taken away from the GOP.
The Harris campaign tried to appeal to the centrists, and look how that turned out.
She looked at Biden who did left things and what did that get him? Lose the house for years 3 and 4. And polls showed he was going to lose. Aka the left never showed up even after getting some left things.
Harris ran on women’s rights, mf’ing democracy, and while she didn’t say it it was clear there would be continuation of student debt relief, green energy, EVs, infrastructure, etc. But it didn’t work because “it’s the economy, stupid”. The left couldn’t even show up for their own human rights.
Biden did very, very few “left” things. His policies were center-right. (For example, when the railroad workers threatened the economy with a strike, the left-wing response would be to temporarily nationalize the rails; the right-wing response would be to protect the railroad companies and remove the workers’ ability to strike.) Progressives showed up to vote for Harris, anyway, as the numbers show. The mythical “centrists” did not.
Biden: Green energy, EVs, drug price control, PACT act, Chips act, student debt relief, build back better, etc. Rail. That’s just of the top of my head. But it’s always n n n not enough for the left. He did left things but the left wasn’t going to show up. Every. Single. Time.