Thank you for clarifying, because I was confused. Like... 'Are the Tankies in the room with us now, OP?'

What you're saying sounds correct, because I don't know anyone to the left of Harris who didn't recognize that Trump was worse. While I think that I might have one friend who refused to vote for her in a swing state, I think that the BlueAnon folks really misunderstood the actual consequences of losing support on the left.

It wasn't really, imo, that those folks wouldn't show up. The problem was that I think a lot of folks never realized how much young blue-haired leftists dragged Biden across the finish line in 2020 by knocking on doors and convincing their uncles to vote Dem. I said throughout the election that losing those people wasn't really a risk of losing their votes, it was a risk of losing the core enthusiasm and turnout organizing that Democrats had largely outsourced to Bernie Sanders' base. And I could be wrong, but all that I've seen seems to affirm that this is exactly what happened.

If someone has evidence otherwise, though. please let me know.