Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

1. Harris refused to break from Biden on Gaza until the last second. Though there’s a chance that Biden’s emotional and ideological attachment to Israel and his handling of the issue would have doomed her on that front regardless.
2. Harris’s campaign got taken over by the millionaire Beltway consultants that control Democratic leadership, and they pushed her to pivot right on key issues that depressed turnout of the Democratic base. The play they made for Never Trump Republicans did NOT work, and may have backfired.
3. Harris had only three months to get a campaign going, which is admirable. Imagine what she could have done with twelve though, especially since Donald has been in campaign mode since he first left office.
4. Elon and Zuck transformed their social media platforms into festering propaganda mills that have sent many more young people in particular down far-right rabbitholes.
5. Legacy media completely memoryholed Trump’s first term and the George Floyd Summer. Additionally, they spent most of Biden’s first term downplaying or staying silent on any accomplishments he racked up, blamed him for “inflation,” and tried their hardest to wishcast a recession into being through the power of belief.
6. Finally, legacy media did lots of free campaigning on Trump’s behalf this year by putting a disproportionate amount of criticism and scrutiny on Harris while ignoring all of Trump’s most outrageous antics and reframing his wildest campaign promises to make them seem more competent than they actually are. Every misstep by Biden or Harris was front page above the fold for days while Trump’s would get mentioned toward the back, as were consequences of his policies. I mean ffs one of our “papers of record” presented his plan to deport 20 million people as a solution to housing costs. 5 and 6 allowed Trump to handily win low information normie voters whose only thought is “the economy is bad but Trump will fix it. The news said so.”

I think the fact that there hasn’t been any mass outbreak of protests or riots in cities in response to the results is telling. People just don’t have the energy anymore.

Okay, I have some preliminary hypotheses for the outcome that we saw today:

1. Harris refused to break from Biden on Gaza until the last second. Though there’s a chance that Biden’s emotional and ideological attachment to Israel and his handling of the issue would have doomed her on that front regardless.
2. Harris’s campaign got taken over by the millionaire Beltway consultants that control Democratic leadership, and they pushed her to pivot right on key issues that depressed turnout of the Democratic base. The play they made for Never Trump Republicans did NOT work, and may have backfired.
3. Harris had only three months to get a campaign going, which is admirable. Imagine what she could have done with twelve though, especially since Donald has been in campaign mode since he first left office.
4. Elon and Zuck transformed their social media platforms into festering propaganda mills that have sent many more young people in particular down far-right rabbitholes.
5. Legacy media completely memoryholed Trump’s first term and the George Floyd Summer. Additionally, they spent most of Biden’s first term downplaying or staying silent on any accomplishments he racked up, blamed him for “inflation,” and tried their hardest to wishcast a recession into being through the power of belief.
6. Finally, legacy media did lots of free campaigning on Trump’s behalf this year by putting a disproportionate amount of criticism and scrutiny on Harris while ignoring all of Trump’s most outrageous antics and reframing his wildest campaign promises to make them seem more competent than they actually are. Every misstep by Biden or Harris was front page above the fold for days while Trump’s would get mentioned toward the back, as were consequences of his policies. I mean ffs one of our “papers of record” presented his plan to deport 20 million people as a solution to housing costs. 5 and 6 allowed Trump to handily win low information normie voters whose only thought is “the economy is bad but Trump will fix it. The news said so.”

Corporatism won. Late-stage capitalism won.