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Showing Contempt for Young Voters Is a Great Way for Democrats to Lose in November (www.thenation.com)

submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the article except for this part:

Joe Biden’s success in 2020 was due in no small part to his deliberate rejection of Clinton’s failed strategy. “Scranton Joe” courted both Sanders voters and blue-collar whites. He promised expanded infrastructure spending and tougher trade deals. Progressive young people might not have given Biden their votes in the primaries, but he campaigned as a candidate who saw them as part of his coalition and duly won their votes on Election Day.

I think the main reason Biden won in 2020 is because of COVID. That and correctly recognizing that people despise both him and Trump and realizing that if he simply stays out of the limelight people won't pay as much attention to how bad he is. Neither of these factors are working for him now, it's much harder to stay out of the limelight when you're the one in charge.

I suppose there may have been less open hostility towards the left compared to Clinton, but only because that's such a low bar.

[–] return2ozma 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I also believe COVID played a huge role. People were like "Trump is an idiot and is going to get us all killed!" so they went with Biden. Then Biden did ok for awhile then some of us had to die for the economy. :(

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And everyone is bitching about the state of the economy now. You think it would have been better off if we had extended even longer the conditions that led to the inflation?

[–] Yggnar 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The inflation we have experienced since 2020 is almost exclusively due to corporate greed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Do you have any numbers to back this up?

Because economist disagree.