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All hail God Emperor Gavin!

Newsom isn't a good choice but he's the only one whose shown any effective strategy against Trump.

Effective how? Has Gavin kept a single innocent person out of jail, funded a single defunded program, protected a single city from Guard occupation?

What has Gavin created except ChatGPT imitations of Trump tweets and AI image slop? What has Gavin done except promote himself?

Gavin's not effective opposition. He just paid TikTok enough money to promote his meme shit that he looks viral. And his bullshit is going to last just about as long as "Kamala is brat" or Walz calling people "weird" did.

Mamdani has shown us an effective strategy, too. Stand for the people. Actually run on the fucking left. Don't just talk shit about Trump - actually oppose his policies. And convince working class Americans you really do stand with them, so they don't turn to right wing populist scumbags out of sheer desperation to be heard.

But that's not going to happen. Because the dirty Democrat secret is that the DNC leadership agrees with most of Trump's positions. They just want to implement them more politely.

You could always keep doing nothing and hope things change. A lot of people chose this option. It didn’t work this time but who knows….

If we get an election in 2028 and Gavin is the stinker propped up against whatever Trump 2.0 is going to be, we can try not voting again and see if things change.

Cool. So to clarify:

• Newsom's strategy is to copy Trumps.
• Democratic Voter strategy is to vote for Newsom and pray all he copies from Trump is campaign strategies.

Remember Bernie and his horde of young male Bernie Bros supporters?

Remember Mamdani and his horde of Republican supporters?

Yeah. Dems just need policies that made these candidates popular if they want young male and Republican voters.

Instead, they fight these candidates harder than any Republican.

Maybe if Democrats want votes they should do more of what makes them popular, not what brings popularity to Trump.

Until then, it's no surprise they're struggling with respect because they've done nothing but ignore what works for their constituents in favor of what works for Trump. Eventually there will be no difference in behavior at all, which is basically where we are now.

Imo, the better strategy would simply be for every Dem to abandon the party, and instead register as Republican. Trump reformed the entire GOP in 10 years because they have no rules for who they'll let into the party. Seeing as there's far more registered Democrats in the country than republicans, and the GOP is a lot weaker towards reformation because of Trump, taking them over with progressives and progressive policies would just be putting condidates in place who don't lie to their GOP constituents.

Honestly, if you want progress, Democrats should start a movement to abandon their party and reform the GOP into the organization it used to be. INCLUDING Democrat candidates. You want to take advantage of gerrymandering? Do it as the GOP instead of fighting them.

This is basically what Russia did to the GOP and in its shape, it would not at all be hard to take it back. And once the GOP isn't all foreign agents promoting an media echo chamber working for a dictator, there's no more evil party the Dems have to fight.

Taking on Trump from the outside has literally never worked. And in the last 20 years, the GOP has undone almost 100 years of American and Democratic policy.

So take them over with non insane Americans, and the GOP bullshit ends.

If you fight them as Democrats, they just get stronger, because Democrats just fight with words.

Not that this will ever happen. But it's by far the best option America has for moving forward.

Very well put! Thank you. More people need to understand how the concept of nuance works and how to apply it to the reality they live in.

They voted (and didn’t vote) based entirely on their wishful thinking of a perfect world in which everything they hate is solved by one person.

And they still didn’t learn from it.

Speak for yourself. I've been saying Dems should be mocking his stupid speech patterns and hyperbolic nonsense since 2016. He is ripe to be mocked, and our greatest failing has been treating his stupidity and absurdity as valid stances worthy of being debated in earnest.

By taking a high road against him we've basically destroyed ourselves and legitimized his positions via the gray fallacy.

Coulda won the election by just going around making fun of him for being dumb enough to think injecting bleach was a solution to COVID.

The point of Neoliberalism, like any other conservative ideology, is to distract from their lack of useful policy and pocket tax payer money until it collapses.

Mockery is an important tool against fascists and other authoritarians. It was even used effectively against Hitler. Their power is entirely projection and something needs to break the glass.