This is no honeymoon, the American “left” will never recover from the Harris/Walz combo; every major base of support (demographic/economic) is covered; Black woman with a jovial heartlandish white man standing behind her is the universal password for the legendary “competent American fascism” software update leftists have been prophesying.
They got this shit locked for at least eight years, Walz is suburbanite catnip and Harris has the identity libs eating out her hands, along with big tech, wallstreet, and the zionist lobby who are now methodically eliminating the last holdouts of the post-2016 nascent left movement
There is no credible avenue of leverage here, the libs can effectively respond to any leftist utterance with accusations of racism, misogyny, and purity testing and it will stick. Already we have most liberals being one rhetorical step away from defending Walz unleashing the National Guard on BLM protesters
There is no point in engaging with domestic national politics at this current time, the ball is firmly overseas
The only series of events that can undermine this new DNC paradigm is Israel blowing up the world and the US mobilizing to save it. Not even the collapse of Ukraine can dent it now, since that was “Biden’s project”
Hate to say it, but the DNC won a firm generational victory
There was talk of “permanent Democratic majorities” after 2008, and the Obama coalition was much stronger than whatever this thrown-together emergency plan is.
Yea hope nobody takes this as an excuse but part of the reason there wasn’t more urgency at the end of Obama second term (other than he was a neolib who never actually wanted to accomplish any progressive goals) was because theybwere operating under the assumption they were never gonna lose the white house again
I don’t think that’s right – the “permanent majority” talk died down pretty quickly. There was still overconfidence, just not to such an absurd degree.
It lasted up until at least November of 2016 with everybody referring to Hillary as “future madam president” for a couple months