this seems to be a consistent theme in all the reporting I’ve read:
Per the report, Biden was bolstered to run for a second term — despite fears surrounding his age and low approval ratings — by the positive 2022 midterm elections results, where Democrats retained the Senate and only narrowly lost the House of Representatives.
which really shows just how brain-dead Biden and Democratic leadership are.
yes, they did better than expected in the midterms. but they still lost the House. and Biden was not on the ballot. a college freshman in a Political Science 101 class should be able to tell you that Democrats over-performing in the midterms does not necessarily tell you much about Biden’s chances for re-election against Trump.
that boost in the midterms was in large part because of anger about the Dobbs ruling from the Supreme Court and the resulting state-level abortion bans. what did they do to capitalize on that anger? to try to focus it in a productive direction? basically nothing.
and of course, what else happened between the midterms and 2024? Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza in response to the October 7th attacks. Biden and the Democrats backed Israel, insisted on continuing to arm their military, and told anyone who didn’t like it to shut up and stop complaining - on the assumption that they had no choice but to vote for Biden regardless. then a bunch of those voters get disillusioned, stay home on election day, and Biden does the shocked Pikachu face.
This isn’t just politics … I’ve gotten a 5 in a performance review and gotten a 0% raise as a result. The midterms were very much a reaction to Dobbs, not a referendum on Biden. It’s confounding how anyone at the DNC saw the House loss as a sign that the plan was working.
The larger goals of neoliberalism are beyond the scope of this post. I get what you’re saying, but we’re still trying to pretend the thin, shoddy veneer is walnut.
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this seems to be a consistent theme in all the reporting I’ve read:
which really shows just how brain-dead Biden and Democratic leadership are.
yes, they did better than expected in the midterms. but they still lost the House. and Biden was not on the ballot. a college freshman in a Political Science 101 class should be able to tell you that Democrats over-performing in the midterms does not necessarily tell you much about Biden’s chances for re-election against Trump.
that boost in the midterms was in large part because of anger about the Dobbs ruling from the Supreme Court and the resulting state-level abortion bans. what did they do to capitalize on that anger? to try to focus it in a productive direction? basically nothing.
and of course, what else happened between the midterms and 2024? Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza in response to the October 7th attacks. Biden and the Democrats backed Israel, insisted on continuing to arm their military, and told anyone who didn’t like it to shut up and stop complaining - on the assumption that they had no choice but to vote for Biden regardless. then a bunch of those voters get disillusioned, stay home on election day, and Biden does the shocked Pikachu face.
This isn’t just politics … I’ve gotten a 5 in a performance review and gotten a 0% raise as a result. The midterms were very much a reaction to Dobbs, not a referendum on Biden. It’s confounding how anyone at the DNC saw the House loss as a sign that the plan was working.
Wait, you think this isn’t the plan 100% working?
The larger goals of neoliberalism are beyond the scope of this post. I get what you’re saying, but we’re still trying to pretend the thin, shoddy veneer is walnut.
My mistake. Everything is very walnut in here!
Here’s some Kool-Aid, too … 🤣