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Because neoliberalism cannot improve things. The US has two effective choices because Americans are too stupid and too lazy to vote third party; if one is a fascist, and the other is the reason fascism flourishes, one will be 'overly critical' of both possible choices.
People will not vote for more of the same when they've been suffering. People will vote for change and chaos long before they vote for 'hurr durr every thing's fine the fact your life is worse is fox news misinformation your experiences don't matter I will just keep doing what's made your life this way.'
This means, if you run a campaign like that, you are implicitly supporting fascism. This isn't a surprising or new strategy, it's the exclusive reason why Obama, a junior senator with a conservative if not far-right voting track record, was able to win the presidency under the democratic ticket. He promised change. It is why Trump won. It is every single analysts' reason for why Trump won. He promised change. He promised to be an outsider. He promised to not do the same thing as any of his predecessors.
It is why Biden won, on the campaign promise of changing from Trump's nonsense.
Harris lost for the same reason Clinton lost for the same reason Romney lost for the same reason Kerry lost for the same reason Gore lost for the same reason... you get where I'm going with this.
If the next democratic presidential candidate promises to "return to normalcy" or "return to the biden era" or "bring back civility to politics" or anything that suggests they are not going to bring radical change, they will lose. It does not matter if they have tits or not. It does not matter if they are Chinese Black Mixed with a cock on their forehead and a literal conjoined twin that looks like a demon baby growing out of their stomach. It does not matter if they are a white rich peodphile (gavin Newsom).
Every single honest political analyst has been screaming at the democratic party since before Clinton became the nominee in 2015. Just promise change and be as visible as possible in trying to follow through. Do not pretend things are fine when they're not. Do not cater to culture war nonsense. Mention how fucked people are economically, and how you're going to fix it, and why you ARE NOT A "NORMAL" POLITICIAN. If ANY candidate does that this next election, D or R, they will win. Period. Regardless of race, religion, sex, or whether or not they 'appeal' to voters tastes.
Yes, I see that. I think people voted for trump the first time because they thought it would be interesting. And his 'drain the swamp' would be good to get back at the elite. I can't believe they fell for it the second time. I don't think he even coherently promised change the second time, it was more that it was his reputation already, and even though the changes he made before were demonstrably worse, people still supported him. I guess trump is interesting but in the way a car accident is interesting. If that's all the U.S. electorate wants, we are so fucked. How can you battle that idiocy without just doing the same?
It's not 'interesting,' it is change. Yes Trump 2 also promised change and proved himself to somewhat be an agent of chaos. When people experienced the Biden years and their lives just kept getting worse by 'returning to normal politics,' they were willing to burn down the US instead of dealing with normal politics again.
People largely didn't support Trump because he is racist or interesting or what have you; but simply because the worst case scenario is the destruction of the US government, and the best case scenario is something that is not the same shit that has crushed them, their parents, and their grand parents for as long as they've been alive.
Trump correctly identified 'the swamp,' or the 'deep state,' or the idea that there is an embedded rot that exists in the US ruling class that exists solely to crush the working class. That there are people and groups explicitly working to make sure the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, and that the law binds the latter and is disregarded by the former without consequence. He literally told on himself and his homies, but attributed it to just the government instead of the entirety of capital.
This resonates with people. Even if he is also a part of capital, he is at worst incompetent and will do enough damage to capital that the average worker might end up better. At the very least Capital would be hurt like the working class has been hurt.
That is an objectively better outcome than returning to normal politics. That is objectively better for most people than 'we'd be at brunch.'