You failed because your candidate was a bitter product.
Trump was a better product...
Now, swallow your pill and move on...
OTH, how could you say it was because you didn’t focus on the economy?
To hear your side, everything is fine.
Lowest job rate in history - Lie
Economy is doing swell - Lie
Longest continual job growth int he history of the country - Lie
Etc, Etc, Etc...
“You failed because your candidate was a bitter product.”
There’s much truth to this. Dems have backed themselves into a corner. They MUST have huge minority and “oppressed” group turnout and they MUST suppress Reagan Democrat turnout. Both of those must happen and they win. That was the formula in 2012.
But minority and oppressed turnout requires ever increasing identity politics to keep them angry. It requires inciting riots in Baltimore, BLM etc. It requires snowflake safe space riots. It requires ever more hysterical attacks on bad bad white people with trucks. The war on women has to become the nuclear war on women. New oppressed groups have to be brought to the fore and convinced of their hideous victimization—2016 was the year of the tranny. And even that didn’t work this year because riots, ridiculous college nonsense, tranny visits to girls bathrooms and the like just piss off regular Americans and especially Reagan Democrats.
So their hysteria has diminishing returns both ways—the minorities, oppressed, and snowflakes really don’t vote that much even when the dems yell even louder and the Reagan Democrats do when they get annoyed enough. That’s why Trump won the Great Lakes states and the election.
If the dems had run Biden, they would have won. He would have split Reagan Dems with Trump.
Instead of moving to candidates who can actually talk to working class Americans like Biden, the dems are moving to Keith Ellison and Elizabeth Warren. They are so not happening in the Midwest.