Tomasky: Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

[orwell]

24. While this was a massive "in-kind" contribution...

...it isn't the primary reason.

Granted there was horrible Democratic messaging throughout President Biden's presidency. They believed that competance would "trump" propaganda. It is obvious that you need both. I am tired of our side getting it's ass kicked by bullshit. But until we sling some truth wrapped in a pretty bow of our own, we are at a tremendous disadvantage.

We had a massive economic dislocation through a global pandemic, it's resulting inflationary effects, and the long wave of capitalist working class carnage wrought by Oligarchic Global Capital.

The technology boom of the 70's through today has essentially created enormous quantities of nominal wealth that only benefited the owners of capital. This is not classical capitalism - as if that has ever existed in the real world. It is robber baron capitalism on a global scale engineered by the real elites, not the ones touted by buffoons such as MAGA.

The current messaging apparatus is only the icing on the cake. The message wouldn't work if people were happy with their lives. THEY ARE NOT! They know the reality is that they can't afford to make it in this environment. That is why incumbents are being tossed worldwide. People are desperate to make sense of a world where massive wealth is being created but they are getting poorer.

There is an objective reality here. If we don't confront it we will keep losing.