Yes, hindsight is 40/40 but these guys (like Arun Gupta) for some time have been warning of snatching a loss with the jaws of absurdity (mis-quoting "Snacthing defeat from the jaws of victory" here and that's mis-quote of "Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat" and we should be making policy not getting stuck in spectator sport roles...) It just seems important to see that the results may not be a sign of brilliance in campaign PR of outright malevolence in millions... Check out Arun Gupta on the immigrants, woman, and black guy he talked to at the Madison rally...
Like Hubert Humphrey, Harris was saddled with an unpopular war (a war & a genocide in her case) that her own boss was waging. Humphrey tried to break from LBJ on Vietnam but too late. Harris never did.
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Harris had very different policies when she ran against him in 2016, maybe she should’ve stuck with a few of them, instead of saying stuff like her beliefs haven’t changed but her position on fracking/national health care/the border/ have….
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