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the republican candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024 got the same number of votes just about every single time. the democrat candidate received nearly equal votes in 2016 and 2024. people were willing to turnout in mass numbers in 2020 to keep trump out of office in 2020 but not in 2024.
while i agree Kamala Harris could have gotten more votes shifting left, i also can't help but be frustrated about those ~10 million voters who were willing to vote for Joe Biden in 2020 but not Kamala Harris in 2024. what most leftist groups were advocating for was to vote for Harris and then commit the energy we were going to have to commit organizing to protest Trump protesting Kamala.
the thing is we saw big protests during the 46th presidency. the motivation was there. but now it's harder to coagulate and maintain those movements with ICE and Homeland security going full gestapo as opposed to before when they were 80% gestapo.
the big thing though is we're here now. i'd rather not relitigate the past, just maintain a critical analysis of it so future generations don't repeat it. what's more important is making sure there's a world for future generations to inherit.
Biden campaigned. Harris did, what, one longform interview? She really thought that was all she needed to sail away with the thing. The arrogance.
if you think that's all she did you weren't paying attention. not that there's anything wrong with that given your .uk home server, but this is a gross oversimplification that ignores both how much campaigning she did, and how much the specifics of her campaign eroded the positive momentum she had when biden dropped out