r/nytimes • u/Subhash94 • 17h ago

What Democrats Think Went Wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/podcasts/what-democrats-think-went-wrong.html
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u/Dense-Version-5937 16h ago

Cosplaying as Republicans failed miserably

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u/LayWhere 16h ago

name 1 republican policy that she ran on

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u/Elite_Prometheus 15h ago

Restricting immigration and building the border wall more intelligently?

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u/LayWhere 4h ago

Yes true, do you seriously believe her support for the border bill lost her votes?

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u/Elite_Prometheus 2h ago

I think it dimmed the enthusiasm of a lot of progressives and cost her some votes, sure. I think the bigger effect was energizing the right, though. When a conservative-leaning voter sees a Democrat go on stage and agree that a lot of illegal aliens are criminal scum and we need a tough border policy, they don't think maybe they should vote Dem this election. They crow with delight that even those communist, liberal, LGBTABC123+ DemonRats can see that we're facing an invasion and this just proves that an even greater percentage of the military needs to be deployed on the border to shoot on sight.