Let's face it, Dem voters didn't show up.

[Nanjeanne]

38. Biden won campaigning on a very progressive worker friendly platform. Build Back Better

would have been transformative. It failed by two Senators. But it was an incredibly strong bold piece of legislature.

Harris, I thought, would be pursuing that - particularly when Walz - who had passed many progressive Sanders style policies was picked. The excitement was real. The “call me what you want, I want to feed children” was so refreshing. But instead the walk away from that towards Cheney and other Rs who supported none of those things and were simply anti Trump happened. Speaking more about lethal military and having R in cabinet and seat at table doesn’t help the working class. Where was minimum wage? Paid leave? Medicare 4 All that she used to support? Even Walz was hollowed out by D consultants.

Yes abortion rights is extremely important. And black women once again were the standard bearers. But the idea that white R women were going to support the black woman candidate on just that issue was a misstep. Towards the end it became more about the threat of Trump than tuition free public college and addressing the insanity of $10,000/yr pharmaceutical deductibles. Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez aren’t the answer for struggling workers.

And sending Bill Clinton and Richie Torres to Michigan to chastise the Palestinian protestors was tone deaf.

Would Trump still win? Maybe. But trying to grab the illusive white Republican vote at the expense of what should be the core Dem base didn’t work in 2016 and didn’t work now. Harris is so articulate. She could have put together a really bold platform and sold it with joy. I’m sad she chose not to. But I’m not a paid insider Dem consultant making millions on failed campaigns year after year so I can get a pundit job on MSNBC. I’m just an old hippie left wing always voting Dem woman who knows why I became a Democrat and has kept hanging in here hoping for a better world.