At least try to understand the mental space of the American voter in 2024.
Watching children die everyday in horrific manners
Telling their leadership to stop it
Only to be met with legislation calling them terrorists - "Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act" (HR 9495)
Only to be met with multimillionaires and billionaires getting away with paying the police to beat student protestors up
Only to be met with people losing their jobs for asking for the genocide to end
Only to be mocked at the UN after ceasefire block after ceasefire block surmounts
Children being dismembered and burned alive in front of your eyes and Matt Miller’s skeletal frame wearing a tight skin suit ghoulishly grins at you. Pulling weathered old journalists out of the white house press corp room like gestapo.
American voters had a right to be depressed and feel hopeless. And in that moment they had no sense of more right and more wrong. It is all wrong.
In the words of Elizabeth Wurtzel, "That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
You can blame all you want but the hopelessness people were feeling and have been feeling was across the board and deserves to be understood and noted. Because if you mock it now and today, it’s going to bite you tomorrow.
• Young voters (18-29): Support for Democrats dropped significantly, with Harris winning only 54% compared to Biden's 60% in 2020.
• Latino voters: A striking shift towards Trump occurred, with support for Democrats declining by over 20 points in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Michigan.
• Black voters: While still largely supporting Democrats, there was a notable decrease in support, particularly among Black men.
• College-educated white voters: This group, traditionally moving towards Democrats in recent elections, shifted away from Harris in several swing states.
• Urban voters: Harris received two million fewer votes than Biden in predominantly urban counties.
• Suburban voters: Harris got approximately 940,000 fewer votes than Biden in predominantly suburban counties.
• Middle-aged Black women: This traditionally reliable Democratic voting bloc showed decreased motivation to vote.
• Jewish voters: This group demonstrated decreased participation for Democrats.
• Voters under 45 in Pennsylvania: Harris faced significant declines in this age group1.
Gen Z voters: Overall turnout for this group decreased from 53% in 2020 to an estimated 42% in 2024.
At least try and understand the headspace Biden’s team created for the democratic party.
(ps an also consider the issue of ballot swapping that seems to also have been a problem in swing states. would any of it have mattered at all? for ref: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31593696/16377502)
I think part of the part he loves about the presidency is he gets to talk to all the dictators he loves. It's like a trip to Disneyland to him where he goes to meet all the villains.
I'm so ashamed of how truly antisemitic the Biden and Trump administrations are