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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Dems: Republicans are Nazis

Also Dems: we're campaigning with Republicans!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Two points:

  1. all Nazis are fascists but not all fascists are Nazis. Nazis liked public works projects and pretending to be socialists, both of which are anathema to the American Fascist Party

  2. The ones campaigning with Republicans stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the fact that Republicans are fascists.

Other than the campaigning with the politically identical daughter of a war criminal, admitting that it consists of giving concessions to fascists is SUPER inconvenient for the party pretending that "bipartisanship" is the greatest political virtue.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Dems: We will never bow down to fascists!

Also Dems: We love to reach across the aisle, we can build some of the border wall!

Dems: Trump is quoting Hitler and his followers are enjoying it.

Also Dems: Look how many former Trump supporters love us! That means we'll will!

Why do try to get the "ravid racist redneck" vote instead of a united front to stop fascists by giving aid to BIPOC, women, and queers?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No she wasn't. She was an excellent symbol that even crazy, hard-line conservatives know trump is insane.

Kamala lost because she did what Democrats always do: ignore progressives and go hard right. If she had played to the god damn left like she should have, Liz Cheney would give that some real depth.

It still did, but less, due to the lack of going left. Liz didn't cost anybody shit.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

You know you're contradicting yourself, right?

Actively embracing the daughter with identical politics of Dick Cheney IS going hard right.

It may say "sane Republicans oppose Trump", but it also says "we are so obsessed with winning over the Right that we'll endorse people who are against everything we pretend to believe in while ignoring the Left that we're pretending to represent"

It didn't "add depth", it made obvious their hypocrisy and lack of regard for policy that affects the lives of regular people more than those of themselves and their owner donors.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mentioned this in a comment last week and was called a sexist for not supporting women, because I dared to say a Cheney endorsement was bad for Dems.

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

All those Republican dog whistles they kept blowing, Boasting about all those Republican endorsements while shifting the party hard to the right only got them 5% of the Republican vote and cause them to lose the election. Even paying for a bunch of celebrity endorsements didn't help them. They are a joke of a party and need to be abandoned.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago
  1. The article argues campaigning with Liz Cheney seems to have no effect. Calling it an "electoral fiasco," especially in the headline, clearly implies that it was detrimental in a significant way.
  2. The evidence that the rallies were ineffective is comparing Harris's results against Biden's. This is terrible analysis. This should be at least a difference-in-difference comparison (the difference in the change vs Biden, using similar counties that were/weren't visited). Useful evidence that their analysis actually works would be applying it to strategies they think were positive, and showing the relative improvement there.
[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No. Fucking. Shit.

In a long line of idiotic missteps and stupid fucking decisions, this was up there with every other contending for first place in an endless line of mistakes.

I'm done with this "oopsie! We made a mistake" bullshit. The DNC can fuck off. They don't represent me. Liz Cheney and her ghoul of a father even less-so.

God damn this moronic timeline.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Duh. We said that on day 0 of it happening.

Granted, when saying that we were all down-voted to oblivion by Blue MAGA apologists who "knew better" and were telling us that voters just needed accept what the Democrats were serving, but then, here we are. Living the outcome of a strategy that directly contributed to the downfall of the idea of western Liberal Democracy.

The brain worm that ate NPR liberals brains on the issue of "strategic voting", as if they had a strategic thought in their head, needs to routed out and crushed in the dirt.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I really doubt this had anything to do with it. Why would dems give a shit if Cheney was like “for gods sake vote for anyone but Trump - at least Kamala is sane”?

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people are like "if someone as evil as Cheney is endorsing Harris that's not a good sign, and if Harris is actively bringing her on stage and talking about how great she is that's DEFINITELY not a good sign"

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

I said exactly those things and got downvoted to oblivion here

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Nobody gave a shit but a handful of people in left-wing forums like this. And I doubt any stayed home or voted Trump over it.