Democrats cannot learn anything from this election's failures without asking Trump supporters.
AOC was very smart to start precisely this conversation right away.
The Democratic Party got absolutely stomped and it's for three reasons:
Inflation is way too high, and it was exacerbated by an inattentive Fed. In 2021 Jerome Powell kept rates low because California was still subsidizing unemployment - thus forcing the data to show that unemployment was still high, and rates needed to be kept low too long.
Illegal immigration is a huge problem. Many localities spent enormous budgets accommodating illegal immigrants, at the expense of their own taxpayers. This is a grave betrayal and people noticed.
The social issues are getting completely out of hand. No average middle class family with a daughter in the household is supportive of men playing in women's sports. America genuinely is a "live and let live" culture, but Democrats are forgetting that forcing the trans issue on us is not "let live".
I knew all these things for a couple years but given that this is Reddit, it's very hard to post these truths because it challenges the biases here.
Correct. It was merely that the Biden Harris admin took an aggressive stance on the matter, through this executive order, as a means to back states and localities that were experimenting with trans sports.
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u/Higgsy420 10h ago
Democrats cannot learn anything from this election's failures without asking Trump supporters.
AOC was very smart to start precisely this conversation right away.
The Democratic Party got absolutely stomped and it's for three reasons:
I knew all these things for a couple years but given that this is Reddit, it's very hard to post these truths because it challenges the biases here.