The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests for Palestine

www.972mag.com The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests

In Philadelphia and across the U.S., progressive young voters rejected that domestic priorities must be tied to a destructive policy abroad.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23689894

from #972Magazine [published in Israel]
By Ahmed Moor
December 17, 2024

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The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests for Palestine

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This is, unfortunately, not borne out by the data. I wish we had this kind of impact, but no, Harris did pretty much as good as Biden in battleground states, which is very good compared to previous elections. Rural votes for Trump just came out way harder for racist scare tactics than ever before.
- this is not true. Trump's total votes barely went up, it was the Democrats total votes plummeted. Total voter turnout was way down, especially for Democrats. Things like this absolutely lead to disengagement from the political process, the media just ignores and downplays it
  2020 popular vote totals:
  Biden: 81,283,501
  Trump: 74,223,975
  Total: ~155 million
  2024 popular vote totals:
  Harris: 74,983,555
  Trump: 77,269,255
  Total: ~152 million
  Democrats lost 7 million votes while Trump only gained 3 million. Where did those 4 million people go? They stayed home because Democrats are liars and backstabbers who continually betray their own base and self sabotage.
  
  The national popular vote is a vibes-check at best. In nearly every state that matters, Harris did better than Biden, and in the ONE state that she didn't, she did worse by ~90k votes. In those states, (again, the ones that decided the election), Trump voters just turned out more than they did in 2020.
  PA Biden: 3,377,674 Harris: 3,423,042
  AZ Biden: 1,672,143 Harris: 1,582,860
  NV Biden: 669,890 Harris: 705,197
  GA Biden: 2,461,854 Harris: 2,548,017
  NC Biden: 2,684,292 Harris: 2,715,380
  WI Biden: 1,610,184 Harris: 1,668,229
  MI Biden: 2,649,852 Harris: 2,736,533
  
  The economy is going great and the genocide does not matter. Democrats did amazing as well but somehow Trump won. Who knows why. Must be the border bill Harris should have been tougher on immigration!
  
  just to be clear: fuck the dems.
  That said, we that protest their awful shit just didn't have the impact that stories like this make it seem like we did which is sad and horrifying for different reasons.
  
  The protests also killed the youth turnout and all progressive activism. The people who are normally at the forefront of activism were now fighting against the Dems. Enthousiam was utterly dead for Democrats. The low turnout is all the evidence needed. People did not even feel like going out to vote Democrat as they do not believe it mattered.
  
  Agreed...people who are generally not in battleground states. It's clearly something that could impact future elections, but it's also pretty clear that it didn't have a strong impact on this election. There is no evidence of low Democrat turnout in battleground states.
  
  Should have campaigned with Bush! /$

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