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And how'd that turn out? Being 1 out of 3 against a guy who campaigns on Arnold Palmer's Dick isn't exactly something to brag on. Also, in what might be a shock to many Democrats, there are thousands of elected offices between the Federal and state governments. The Democrats massively underperformed everywhere and with every demographic. But sure, it's ridiculous to think that should lead to some reflection and reform. Maybe next time the Republicans will find someone weaker than Trump and we'll be golden.
Yes! Let's have some reflection and not pick the timescale to suit a narrative. The "habitual losers" won 3 of the last 5. Pelosi, Clinton, Biden etc. were all very present when Obama was in the Whitehouse.
I totally agree that it's ridiculous to lose to Trump, but you can't claim that they lost because their platform could never win, because it already has - including against Trump.
Why did they lose? I don't know - but I do know that you aren't going to find the answer if you start from a false premise.
You picked the timescale of two elections. Then I expanded it to three and that was out of bounds, but five is fine again? You make it difficult to assume you are arguing in good faith.
Apparently you missed the point that the presidency isn't the only office that matters. Anyways, in the course of winning 3/5, Democrats lost the working class and gen-z. That indicates a trend.
I would also argue that Obama's first win shouldn't count. Hillary was the establishment candidate and she lost to Obama running on a reform platform of "change". Then he got elected and suddenly became just another manager of the status quo. In the course of Obama's two terms, Democrats lost over 1000 seats across the country. Even in victory, Obama was massive loser for the Democrats.
Obama held on well enough while Republicans kept ran establishment candidates. That ended when Trump ran a right wing populist campaign. He was full of shit, but he was the only candidate actually talking to most of the country.
Democrats won in 2020 because of Trump's obvious mishandling of the COVID crisis. Even so, it was a close race in three critical swing states.
They lost because we are living in a populist age. We have record income inequality and an economy that feels more and more like a scam every day. People see that and want someone to blame. Republicans have villains and narratives and Democrats don't. Democrats could put the blame where it belongs (with Wall Street and corporate America) but they won't. That leaves a vacuum where Republicans blame minorities. A bigoted narrative beats no narrative.
I am taking issue with your calling them "habitual losers" since it's demonstrably untrue. If you only look at the last election, you can't call it "habitual". If you widen the timescale, the worst possible is the last 3, in which they still won 1/3. In any other timescale, they were even or won more. Sure, there are other offices, but the presidency is quite a big one to overlook.
I said that you aren't ever going to understand what really happened if you start with a false premise, and you're obviously going to defend your false premise to the end, so I'm out.
What did we "win" by electing Obama twice? A healthcare plan assembled by the same right wing think tank that brought us Project2025? Obama didn't even win his supreme court nominees. That's a big part of what I mean by habitual losers.
I'll go ahead and bring this up a third time since you are still ignoring it. It's not just about the Presidency. Radical candidate Obama took the House, a (sort of) super majority in the Senate, and swept in state government as well on his coattails. Then he rescued Wall Street on the backs of working Americans and lost everything but his own office.
Obama also redirected funds that usually go to the DNC to his own campaign coffers, which was a big part of how he saved his own ass at the cost of the party. That's what setup the DNC to need a bail out which Hillary provided in exchange for their help in the primary. That's where the emails came from that fucked her campaign.
Candidate Obama was great, but President Obama was a total loser.
Over the last 50 years the working class has been absolutely pummeled, with little difference between Democratic and Republican presidencies, since the Democrats can't win and keep Congress. Electoral reform might help, but they can't win at the state level to get that done either.
The Democrats aren't a sports team to be judged by wins and losses for a single office. Losing youth and working class voters is a total disaster for a supposedly progressive party. Democrats are now officially the party of the professional and investor class, and nobody else. Do you not see how fucked that is?