The Democrats could have won easily with disciplined policies.
To make the US election result about personalities – and demonisation of the candidates or the voters – is to miss the point and learn nothing.
If someone with a character record like Trump can win against a candidate with the relative personal strengths and wide sympathy and appeal of Kamala Harris, the Democrats must have some awful policies.
In swing-state Pennsylvania, one local Republican official, Joel Jukes, said that the Democrats had underestimated Trump’s popularity. “He’s been impeached twice, convicted of crimes and charged with many others, and still he wins this election. Nobody can argue that he hasn’t been thoroughly vetted by the American people.”
And that’s the point. The Democrats lost despite Trump, not because of him. And that’s huge feedback for Democrats who actually want to learn what they have wrong.
It’s the policies.
So, have a think.
Which ones were a) right, and b) popular enough for the populous at large to want to vote for?
And which ones were a) bad or b) unacceptable to a majority?
I have my own views.
Let me know in the Comments on my Substack your considered Democrat policy re-assessment. What policies failed?