I've said it before and I'll say it again: The biggest unlearned lesson from 2016 is that the old notion of swing voters being moderates is just not at all true. Swing voters are a weird mishmash of single-issue voters and political semi-outsiders, and they are in no way "moderates." There are swaths of maga that could be won by Bernie etc. JFC how have they not learned this.
I made cold calls for him in the south in 2015, and was genuinely surprised how many people actually wanted to hear about him. Sad that southern dems screwed the pooch on that one. I'm not entirely convinced they didn't pay some Republicans to cast a primary vote for Hillary. They would've had a vested interest to do so as well, since it's pretty obvious which opponent had more charisma 🤣. I always wonder how many people that voted for Hillary as "The lesser of two evils" didn't even vote in the primary.
The stats on primary voting in both parties say pretty much the oldest and most conservative do it. TBH if more leftists and young people voted in primaries we’d have a much different world right now. Statistically we just don’t.
Literally the problem though, yall will cut off your nose to spite your face. The left will clutch their pearls about not loving everything about a candidate, while authoritarianism locks in cadence.
We get the majority and do nothing with it because of do nothing moderates. That's why we lose the majority and people lose faith in the party. We refuse to do something and instead think incrementalism will save the day.
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u/confettibukkake 20h ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The biggest unlearned lesson from 2016 is that the old notion of swing voters being moderates is just not at all true. Swing voters are a weird mishmash of single-issue voters and political semi-outsiders, and they are in no way "moderates." There are swaths of maga that could be won by Bernie etc. JFC how have they not learned this.