A Fetterman aide nails it...

[Raoul_Luke]

Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially kowtowing to far-left interest groups — over “the smart and effective practice of politics for many, many years.”

The challenge of inflation, Jentleson said, became insurmountable in an environment where large swaths of the country had come to believe that Democrats “are preoccupied with the narrow interests of college-educated elite activists more than everyday working people.”

MSN

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That is it in a nutshell - people (rightly) saw that the DNC was more concerned with getting illegals into the country and trans men into girls' locker rooms than they were with the financial plight of the working class. And that is why so many of the working class (of all races colors and creeds) went for Trump. This didn't hurt them in the deep blue states, of course, but it killed them in the swing states.

Oh, and by the way @Bugsy McGurk - that pretty much destroys the premise behind your effort to get us to take our political marching orders from the intelligentsia...LOL!

 

[middleview]

Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially kowtowing to far-left interest groups — over “the smart and effective practice of politics for many, many years.”

The challenge of inflation, Jentleson said, became insurmountable in an environment where large swaths of the country had come to believe that Democrats “are preoccupied with the narrow interests of college-educated elite activists more than everyday working people.”

MSN

www.msn.com

That is it in a nutshell - people (rightly) saw that the DNC was more concerned with getting illegals into the country and trans men into girls' locker rooms than they were with the financial plight of the working class. And that is why so many of the working class (of all races colors and creeds) went for Trump. This didn't hurt them in the deep blue states, of course, but it killed them in the swing states.

Oh, and by the way @Bugsy McGurk - that pretty much destroys the premise behind your effort to get us to take our political marching orders from the intelligentsia...LOL!

Trump got 2 million fewer votes than in 2020. Harris lost 15 million voters.
Nothing the democrats did or supported spoke to trans athletes. If people voted for Trump because of that accusations it simply shows how gullible they are.

People ignored Trump's promises that he has already begun to ignore....he certainly failed to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially kowtowing to far-left interest groups — over “the smart and effective practice of politics for many, many years.”

The challenge of inflation, Jentleson said, became insurmountable in an environment where large swaths of the country had come to believe that Democrats “are preoccupied with the narrow interests of college-educated elite activists more than everyday working people.”

MSN

www.msn.com

That is it in a nutshell - people (rightly) saw that the DNC was more concerned with getting illegals into the country and trans men into girls' locker rooms than they were with the financial plight of the working class. And that is why so many of the working class (of all races colors and creeds) went for Trump. This didn't hurt them in the deep blue states, of course, but it killed them in the swing states.

Oh, and by the way @Bugsy McGurk - that pretty much destroys the premise behind your effort to get us to take our political marching orders from the intelligentsia...LOL!

That’s all ridiculous hooey.

There’s no reason for you to “think“ about how Trump got elected. It’s very simple…

1. Many vulnerable Americans are angry. What they are really angry about, although they often cannot articulate it, is the economic struggles they encounter because of wealth inequality.

2. Those same Americans don’t know that the wealth inequality has been caused by decades of GOP policies that shifted wealth upward and created the wealth inequality. Trump and his assistant liars convince them that Trump’s billionaires club have the interests of the working class at heart. Meanwhile, wealth inequality gets worse every day, and the Trump/GOP policies will make it worse still.

That’s it. I explained it for you. You will ignore it, of course, but it’s that basic.

P.S. Number 1 on the Trump/GOP priority list - more tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the fatcats. Which will create even more wealth disparity. No surprise there.

 

[TBLee]

Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially kowtowing to far-left interest groups — over “the smart and effective practice of politics for many, many years.”

The challenge of inflation, Jentleson said, became insurmountable in an environment where large swaths of the country had come to believe that Democrats “are preoccupied with the narrow interests of college-educated elite activists more than everyday working people.”

MSN

www.msn.com

That is it in a nutshell - people (rightly) saw that the DNC was more concerned with getting illegals into the country and trans men into girls' locker rooms than they were with the financial plight of the working class. And that is why so many of the working class (of all races colors and creeds) went for Trump. This didn't hurt them in the deep blue states, of course, but it killed them in the swing states.

Oh, and by the way @Bugsy McGurk - that pretty much destroys the premise behind your effort to get us to take our political marching orders from the intelligentsia...LOL!

And this election should be a wake up call to the Democrats. But, I am not sure they are capable of self evaluation. America spoke loud and clear. ALL legal citizens of our Country deserve to be heard and respected, not just college educated elite activists.

 

[georgephillip]

Adam Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially kowtowing to far-left interest groups

Bernie Sanders's policies are a far cry from far-left; however, he is much further to the left than Biden, Harris, or Fetterman, AND he (arguably) would have won in 2016 and 2020.

https://mronline.org/2024/11/09/what-was-it-that-trump-knew-that-harris-didnt/

"Of course, Trump has a committed base of far-right racists and reactionaries, but, substantial as they are, they are not large enough to win 51% of the vote.

"For that, disillusioned Democrats are necessary. And the Biden/Harris administration has provided them in spades.

And this is not just a pattern in U.S. politics.

"Across the globe, the populist right builds out of disappointment with the liberal centre.

"Unless there is a radical break with the system that produces austerity at home and war abroad, the Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump cycle will repeat, and not just in the U.S."