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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeing how lost Democrats are today, I am really struck by how remarkable Barack Obama was. He transcended all the stupid little boxes that progressives have these days. If he were to emerge today, I'd expect Democrats to be completely twisted into pretzels as they agonize over whether Obama is too black or not black enough.

Candidates matter much more than the boxes they are ticking. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris lost not because they are women but because they were shitty candidates running on platforms that most Americans rejected. I'm pretty sure Nikki Haley would have won if she had been the Republican nominee. Voters rejected Harris not because she's a woman, but because Biden progressives suck - from illegal immigration to preferential racial hiring to soft on violent crime policies to wrecking an entire generation of public school students because of cruel blue state Covid restrictions. Jesus Christ Himself would have lost running as a Democrat in 2024.

So Democrats have both a candidate problem and a policy problem. What they need is a movement leader - a charismatic individual who can move Democrats away from losing social issues and toward winning economic issues. The economy is going to suck over the next few years. That is where Democrats can pick up heaps of voters if they can somehow re-orient to being the party of the working and middle class. Identity politics are death for Democrats. They need to walk away from that and focus on health insurance, income inequality, parental leave, safe neighborhoods, good schools, and all the other kitchen table issues that progressives have ignored for years. There is so much space for Democrats to be the dominant party in the US if they could just focus on the things that matter to the working and middle class - and that is not gender pronouns or Gaza.

Right now the only prominent voices I'm seeing that really resonate with working and middle class voters are Bernie Sanders and AOC. But Bernie is too old and AOC is too young. So that space is completely free for a more viable candidate. And I'm not seeing anyone. People like Buttigieg and Booker and Whitmer and Newsome will never do anything that pisses off donors and the DNC. But Democrats desperately need exactly the kind of candidate that pisses off donors and the DNC. I don't know who that person is, but that's what Democrats need. And their race or gender is completely irrelevant. It's their character, charisma, and policy that matters. But if Democrats choose to go with either a milquetoast DNC candidate or a identity politics candidate, they are doomed to irrelevancy. But a charismatic class warrior will win big against the party of Elon Musk.   [/quote]

Proving once again that Dems have to be more and bigger and better than any R candidate b/c we eat our own alive. Just reading this, and reading your takedown of any and every possible candidate, was exhausting and dooms to failure.

And, yes, HRC and Kamala in fact did lose in large part b/c of their sex. I know people who said as much ("I'll never vote for a woman.") And those were just the overtly sexist statements.[/quote]

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