@mastodonmigration Unfortunately, presidential elections are always determined by independents in the middle, who are not inclined to vote for what they view as candidates at the far end. For example, polls showed that the entire complex of issues around sexuality and sports was an enormous turn-off for the middle, and pushed them enough toward Trump to make the difference. That's just the unfortunate reality. Middle of the road, safe candidates usually win, except in extraordinary circumstances (e.g., Biden's obvious denial of a steep mental decline). Remember, Trump won't be running again (no matter what he says).

@lauren @mastodonmigration Not really. Turnout is a major factor. Democrats ignore (or spit in the face of) their working class, not-white-male base at their own peril (and all of ours, as the results of years of unpopular "safe" centrist Democratic candidates is fascism). Reduced turnout vs 2020 due to failure to sufficiently counter racist voter suppression and refusal to go against Israel and techbros hurt Harris more than a few suburbanites who supposedly voted based of fear of coed toilets.

@PedestrianError @mastodonmigration Harris sealed her fate with a single sentence, when she answered an interview question by saying she couldn't think of anything she'd do differently than the Biden administration had. Game over.

@mastodonmigration @PedestrianError The critical fork in the timeline was when Biden for whatever reasons (and I believe hubris was a key one) decided to break his explicit promise to be a one term president. Everything else flows from that fork.