campaigning on those issues.
Raise the minimum wage. Which party do you think is behind wanting to raise the minimum wage? Hint, it isn't the republicans.
Which candidate wanted to help first time home buyers. Hint it isn't the republicans, and Harris campaigned on it.
Everyone of those issues Democrats are behind, and made no secret about it.
As far as Bernie Sanders goes, he sure didn't help Harris when he went to campaign in Wisconsin, and a little reminder, Barnes was leading by a substantial margin when he ran against Johnson until Sanders came out and campaigned for him. Maybe it was a coincidence, but Barne's lead against Johnson was completely erased after that.
The hard truth is people are going to have to learn their lessons the hard way, that elections have consequences.
Remember Reagan? They pushed how things were "so good" under him.
Reagan was the first president that began to disassemble progressive taxation & safety net systems and advocated for ‘trickle down’ economics and ‘starve the beast’ strategies.
It was under Regan where the unions and labor, which supported him by the way, started to unravel. We will see how happy they are with trump, because they think things were so good under him. Of course forgetting his mishandling of the Covid pandemic, and blaming it on others. RFK Jr is going to be a real show stopper on that one.
His economic policies; basically codified the republican trope of "Trickle Down Economics" which meant large tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and reduced government spending on social programs, benefiting the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class. These policies directly contributed to large budget deficits and the national debt.
It was a shit show, but that is where this all this trouble started, and labor which enthusiastically supported him paid a hard and heavy price for that.
I suspect labor will need to relearn the lessons that they seem to have forgot during the Reagan years with trump all over again.
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