Losing the popular vote should be a real wake up call. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent to win over moderate voters and republicans, and they turned out for Trump in even larger numbers than before. The working class has been so deeply gouged that you can no longer keep offering nothing and expect to be even competitive.

This Democratic Party and its electoral “strategy” are beyond cooked. It’s crazy to think that the election numbers Democrats are seeing are receiving a GENEROUS boost from abortion rights being on the ballot, the incumbent boost, and several very important down ballot races.

The dude is a criminal, an Epstein associate, a creep, an absolute loser and a nepobaby failure of a businessman who is a clown that just says the first thing that pops into his head and makes decisions based on whatever the last thing was told to him in a flattering or convincing way.

And the democrats lost to that. Twice.

Nearly three times if not for the fact that people were desperate for respite from him and they got sold on the Obama-era myth of promising progress and change that, shockingly, went unfulfilled once again.

Anyone could have tripped him up in a debate by making reference to the importance of reading to a president and saying that there should be a mandatory test for literacy before someone becomes president so they can fulfill their duties. You could have gone for a one-two punch and followed that up by saying that you don't believe that literacy is a barrier to being successful in life because even if you are illiterate you can still inheret your father's fortune and run crypto scams, although it does limit your ability to star on TV unless of course you go for the bottom of the barrel reality TV shows where scripts are little more than a suggestion, but you still believe that it's important for a president to be able to read.

Trump is so unhinged and incapable of managing his emotions that saying something like that to him would make him so infuriated that he wouldn't possibly be able to think clearly after that point. Sure, it wouldn't win you any points with his diehard supporters but I can tell you that at least half of the American population would love to have seen Trump getting publicly dunked on so hard that he became a bumbling fool for the rest of a debate, plenty of conservatives included. It brings me no joy to say it but something like that would be a media coup that would win over so many undecided voters where policy and voting records would not.

But Kamala suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of that buffoon.

Ask not how Donald Trump could become president (twice) but ask if anybody could manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory the way that a DNC presidential candidate can.

I don't think this kind of messaging can be effective on its own without making explicit how capitalist democracy will always reproduce this result even if you manage the genuinely impossible task of slotting a third party in as one of the two majors. That's the real hurdle when it comes to bashing the democratic party. They always come back with a correct observation about FPTP.