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The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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I think centrism can win elections though. In my country, the UK, elections are usually won by whichever party captures the centre ground. Keir Starmer won in the UK this year by being centrist. Previously David Cameron and Tony Blair were pretty centrist, and both won multiple elections.
Centrism can win in places that aren't America. Too many Republicans are being fed propaganda all day long by Fox "News"...an organization that has argued in court that no one should take them seriously. But that's where they get their news. They're also indoctrinated by their religious upbringing from Evangelicals. There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. They have shown that they will vote every time for the Republican candidate regardless of how flawed they are. Trump is a convicted felon that tried to overthrow the government, has been found in a court to be a rapist, was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, has had numerous failed businesses and bankruptcies, has denigrated our troops. NONE OF IT MATTERS. Stop trying to appeal to the right and actually get your voting base excited about the policies you want to push.
I think in any country you have to appeal to undecided voters in the centre in order to win an election. So yes maybe the Dems shouldn't appeal to "the right" but they probably need to appeal to the centre.
There is no center in the US. If you're okay voting for Donald Trump, you are not in the center. That's entirely the point.
About the same number of people voted for Trump in the last two elections (about 74 million people) while the Democrat vote went down from 81 million to 69 million. So maybe some people around the political centre (independent voters, etc) felt Harris wasn't compelling enough.
I dunno really I'm just guessing. The Democrats will probably have a lot of data and exit polls telling them which demographics they need to do better with.