Not necessarily let’s get it over with as much as “let’s stop ratcheting right in order to win some elections and make stuff better”.

Okay. Did the Trump victory make 'ratcheting right' less likely?

No?

It made it more likely?

And reduces the chance of winning elections?

And ensures that everything is going to get worse?

There was no fucking reason for anyone who isn't a fascist to sit this fucking one out.

Since 2016, there has NEVER been a good time to vote third party or criticize the democrats. Basically, since Trump got on scene, the democrats became so completely fragile that you can’t say bad stuff about them or disagree with them or they’ll lose :(

Since Trump got on the scene, we've had a literal fascist who has the only other party in the country in lockstep behind him; yes, it is kind of important that he be defeated at the ballot box? Jesus fucking Christ.

But let’s get real. The Harris campaign didn’t have a lot of meat to offer people, their entire strategy was “not Trump”. That’s not great, but then it’s also “not Trump” while telling everyone that the economy is fine actually, that they’re going to keep giving Israel billions in bombs but don’t worry because they’re totally going to do the ceasefire this time,

Which has been bipartisan for the past forty fucking years. It's hardly proof that the Dems were 'following 12 years behind the GOP'. The Dem platform was the most anti-Israel I've seen in my lifetime, and while that's damnation by faint praise, the message sent by the fucking electorate was: "The more pro-Israel candidate has won"

that they’re going to crack down on the border even harder,

Almost 80% of Americans buy into the idea that there's a 'crisis' on the border, with broad bipartisan support. Do you really think that's the issue that discouraged people from voting for Harris?

They weren’t saying “we’re the opposite of Trump” when they said “not Trump”. This might as well have been a Republican primary with John Kasich vs Trump.

Ah, yes, John Kasich's well known clean energy, free college, marijuana decriminalization, corporate tax raising, LGBT supporting, pro-DEI, anti-price gouging, pro-choice, public healthcare expansion platform.

Well, anyway, I guess a few of us shattered the Harris campaign into a trillion tiny pieces when we tried to push for good policies that might have actually won them the election. Snark aside, I am legitimately disappointed that this is where things are at; we should have been able to fix it, but we didn’t have the political will, and now we’ve already got democrats signalling the eagerness to work with the Trump presidency.

"People in government want to work with those who hold power in government"

Who could have predicted this? If only there was something we could've done, like put someone else in power in the government.

We’re here now, can we please talk about how to make stuff better yet?

Sure, we can bring up some form of action, and then everyone who played purity politics can say that our allies aren't good enough to unite against fascists with, again, and we can repeat the 2024 election for every undertaking we have from here on out, electoral or otherwise.