I am still seeing tons of articles in the mainstream media about how Democrats need to win back disaffected Trump voters. This is despite the data which clearly shows that Trump's vote did not increase significantly over 2020, but rather that Democratic voters voted in substantially smaller numbers.

I see no articles about how Democrats need to energize their base to vote, which is what the data indicates. The mainstream narrative is pure bullshit.

I should point out that the number one way mainstream journalists say Democrats should win back disaffected Trump voters is by abandoning progressive values.

@dgoldsmith Sigh, that is literally the German Green Party's "strategy" right now.

Measured by the actual laws they're voting in favor of (as part of our recently imploded government), they're leaning hard to the right (anti-poor, anti-refugee, pro-deportation, pro-surveillance), in a bid for right-wing voters, who will never decisively vote for them anyway.

Meanwhile, an *army* of Green Party evangelists is flooding the zone with messaging about how, as a left-leaning voter, you *must* vote for their fucking party, or you're basically a Nazi.

Of course, none of these ass clowns can explain why, as a left-leaning voter, someone would vote for a party that is non-stop enacting right-wing policy. πŸ˜‘

Added: And most of them seem to believe that the Green Party could even *win* the election ("Habeck4Kanzler"), which is a complete fantasy at this point.

@alxndr @dgoldsmith if you're too moronic to understand "because the other actually existing alternatives are much worse", it's not useful to waste one's time. Enjoy your CDU, Merz is definitely not as right-leaning as Habeck.

You privileged Western clowns don't even understand what you have to lose. Entitled crybabies.

@creepy_owlet 🀑