Do you think voter suppression and intimidation had anything to do with this in Texas? I don't live in your state and you are the master of what goes on there, I'm just an outsider that reads you- but I wonder if the tyrannical workings of Ken Paxton scared people.
Where does racism and misogyny fit in here- because I actually think those are the top two issues.
The most *consequential* election of our lifetime and Democrats stayed home just because they're upset that Harris floated too far to the middle. I'm struggling with that one. Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face. But then again I have seen a few comments from the far left who are super pissed at AOC for supporting Harris.
Perhaps I'm overly pragmatic, but step 1 is to save democracy, that means vote for Harris - Step 2 is to move the party from the middle to the left.
The Overton Window is completely fucked now, we will not get back to the middle in my lifetime, I'm 55.
I don't know when I'll get out of my grieving process, and right now I'm full of rage and hate for the Trump voters and the none voters. But they will find out soon enough what they bought..... because the Republican gestapo started taking their masks off already on Wednesday.
And how do we explain that North Carolina selected a Democrat for a governor, Democrat for lieutenant governor, democrat for Secretary of State and Democrat for attorney General........ but then they turned around and voted for Trump because he won North Carolina supposedly? It defies logic.
There's only two possibilities:
1. Sexism and racism, and you almost have to exclude racism cuz they previously voted in black mark Robinson - which means sexism is the issue.
in my county......called the largest red county in the country by the R;s , we won Colin Allred,......a black dude , for Sentate........so i would go with 1.a.
Im mad at the non voters. The ones who “just couldn’t” vote for a woman. I’m just walking around Austin saying to myself “is this person a good person or a bad person?”when I say hi to folks. ‘Cause even here in Austin it’s a coin toss you’re a dumbass. Unfuckingbelievable y’all.
Yeah, last night we went out to dinner about 5:00 p.m. when everyone was getting off work - I just looked around at the people in cars saying: there's a trumper, there's another trumper, and another one. I hope they never need help from me, I will tell them to call a red cap.
Or they didn't vote. Also, many won't consciously admit -- even to themselves -- their misogyny or racism. Personally, my sense is that, in addition to the major issue of inflation, too many couldn't imagine a woman leader of the free world. And even more powerful than that was the disinformation reaching people we didn't through channels we never touch.
This election was about rascim, misogyny, greed and the fact that 54% of Americans are functionally illiterate. This country is dumber than bag of doorknobs. Can't leave out the lazy apathetic ones. Then there's classic invincible ignorance fallacy. Defending one's position while refusing to consider immutable contradictory facts. Agent Orange was given the Hare Psychopathic Test by over 200 noted mental health professionals. The scale is 1-40. Most humans are about a 5. Death row inmates are about a 22. Fuckwad was a 37.
This country will protect white privilege and their wealth at all costs. Women and minorities are the collateral damage. Republicans and some dumb ass democrats don't give two fucks about this country.
These mother fuckers are going to take a wrecking ball to our lives. It's fucked around and find out time. Stupid, stupid and fucking stupid. We need to learn how to deal with our narcissistic abusers. Emotional intelligence would help. And stop fucking voting for them.
Gawd, this country is so stupid. All over social media, stories of naturalized citizens talking about how they voted for Trump and the mass deportation won’t impact them, because he meant the other guys. People don’t know what tariffs are. And manufacturers are already raising their prices in preparation. We know that we live among stupid, how do we fix it?
i took ur criticsm of FWST to heart...and i don't guess u watch CNN....but Texan Ed Lavendera , the reporter they send to all Hispance stories interviewed a Hispanic aka Mexican 'Trump themed' cafe owner in Az. The guy and his whole family was gaga over the win. That is CNN's coverage of the dystopia to come.
touche ..george conway.......u know, kelly anne's ex...had a Anti-Psychopath PAC
MSNBC was extremely resistant to labeling Trump a psychopath to the point of censuring some guests. CNN ...never heard the word.
things are going to be different now as Mary Trump describe Uncle Don's de-compensating........for u non psyc majors that means his brain is slowly coming apart.
what's an authoritarian? or whats' a fascist? we Dems spent most of our time calling Trump these things, crowsding out other issuse, without offering even the simplest , most adolescent, jr. hi level explanation of what this is and how it looks in real life.
We underestimated illiteracy- it’s not just vocabulary it’s conceptual. It’s also pervasive. Fuck.
I really read the room wrong. I thought we had convinced people of diverse viewpoints to unite under the big tent. I thought we were gonna elect her, then start fixing real issues like climate and Palestine progressively.
I completely underestimated the degree of misogyny in our culture. Even women to women. Holy hell, how we fight ignorance with school vouchers coming everywhere?
i understand ur frustration....i woke up Wednesday wanting to throw in the towel....but a couple of days later i find myself plotting and scheming how to fight back. Its not messaging , its explaining what ur Dem govt did for you , and what ur R govt will do too u.
i think a totally important tactic: We never tell anyone what we have done for them. CHIPS Act?????? I thought CHIPS was Child Health Care. Turns out it is computer chips and a game changer. The Border, if memory serves, didn't Biden try some things and SCOTUS said hell no, ........Did u know how many times SCOTUS and R''s rebuked Biden Student Loan efforts? The list is long and not a single voter was made aware of our efforts on their behalf. How bout this, by some calculations Trump killed 1/2M Americans in his handling of COVID. Biden saved lives and saved the economy from free fall......remind u of anything like Obama and the Financial Crisis........How bout one dark commercial , a vote for Trump is a vote for Putin. Did Kamala really describe her programs in the way a poor dumb on-line poker playing 6 pack Jane could understand.
Anybody remember back in Summer when Project 2025 got in the news...........then we let it go.....a couple of cycles on CNN and we think we won the issue. Lo and behold it was back Day 1 of Trump 2.0 and its the plan for America for the next 250 years. We spent what, 45 minutes on it?
And speaking of SCOTUS , why not associate Roberts with the Robber Barons' or even the Devil. His court is tuning us into an oligarchy. That;s never good for the guys that cash their payroll check at the min-mart.
But really , how bout a commerical like this........Dark ominous music in the background...then the Voice.........'Trump dies himself orange, Vance wears eyeliner........could anyone be more Trans?......save ur kids, vote D' ......ps: i thunk that up in 2 minutes so imaging if I had $2B
and finally .......tell our ungrateful constituents what fucks they are. Labor?.........cause Kamala's a girl and a black one to boot you are gonna vote for the oligarch loving , labor gains roll backing, wife beater......hell he's not even white himself, he's orange. Could be his shit-hole genes expressing themselves.
But really, ladies....WTF...voting for the Rapist. That will take a team of social scientists at an Ivy League school with much govt. funding a decade or more to comprehend.They should be forced to wear the Scarlet T.They should be shunned.
There will be a movie: "50 Shades of America'
But we won't , we will try to moderate our message....Am i right?
I bet we can moderate our messages such that we end up not protecting the rights of anyone.
Ps: i think as a party we fundamentally misunderstand human nature. We think people are alot better than the really are. They need herding and that's what R's do.....they get that.
IMO, The Democrats need to dumb down their campaigns.
Plain and simple words with real life examples on policy differences between D and R. Also people learn better visually than they do with a bunch of words.
I fully comprehended Harris's campaign/policies and I understood all of her words - but those of us here on this post are educated and well read. The base the Democrats need to reach (uneducated and easily manipulated R voters) don't comprehend at the same level we do.
a headline in FWST today....‘I’m ecstatic’: What a Donald Trump 2.0 presidency means for Texas’ biggest industries"
that's it in a nutshell......we never beat industry or its workers over the head what Biden did and now Trump will take all the credit for investment in wind , solar and batteries in Texas.
forget about the worst air in the nation.
little know fact: Most of money from IRA.....i know what ur thinking 401k'..right, me too........... ...no the IRA is Biden $1T investment act..............and about 70% of that money went to red states like the Kingdom of Texas ...........no strings attached , no PR associated.....we tied our own noose cause the benefits never accrue to that administration.........
Democrats are too nice, they keep playing the game as originally designed, but that game changed 50 years ago by the republicans, specifically Reagan - the Democrats have been 50 years too slow to respond. They take the high road thinking that's going to pay off - Republicans take the low road, lie cheat corrupt, steal.
Plenty of people have been raising the alarms over the years, but they were told they were overreacting and being paranoid.
Project 2025 started in 1980 with Reagan, he's the one that put us down this path.
I believe ignorance, disinformation and the desire for “2020 revenge” fueled a lot of the MAGA voters as well as many who were on the fence.
To those who sat on their butts and stayed home because they figured Trump couldn’t win so their vote was not needed: your apathy just put a convicted criminal in the White House again. And he won’t be happy just pardoning himself to stay out of jail. He’ll delight in the only thing he has ever loved besides himself: getting revenge on his enemies.
To all the misogynists, I have to say: it’s the 21st century! Countries all over the world have already elected women to lead their governments in recent decades. WTF?!! Even Mexico got enough men to elect their first woman president this year.
So, yeah: we need to work on the misogyny issue, voter apathy, and getting folks to turn out at the grass roots level for LOCAL and STATE elections. It starts from the ground up. The disinformation issue will be harder to overcome and is probably our worst enemy. Magas and non-voters will soon be having buyer’s remorse. Unfortunately, the rest of us also have to pay the price.
Thank you again, Michelle, for your always thorough, in-depth reports. Our work is cut out for us, and your efforts are so appreciated. 💙💙💙
100%. Have you seen the post-election reports of all the men posting on social media / walking up to women saying: "Your body. My choice!" ?!!! One mother reported that her daughter was approached three times in one day by high school boys who shouted that at her.
I'm completely disgusted with this country. Boxing lessons, how to put a boot to the balls, a security device on their person, scream at the top of their lungs, and practice these things. They have to have a don't fuck with me attitude. As a SA survivor, do it. Teach them. We are on our own. No one is coming to rescue us.
I believe this election came down to racism and sexism. That is the reason my union, International Association of Firefighters did not endorse and many other white male dominated unions chose to sit it out. Sad to say but as a country we have a ways to go. I do believe we will get there but not without continuing our conversations with our neighbors and friends. I will again, when I stop being so damn mad at them.
i appreciate the heart Lisa but i really want someone to explain it too me. i know several college educated MAGA women. I don't get them. Amongst other things the all are divorced and remarried and one spouse or the other has been violent or simply didn't hold up his end of the marriage contract.
please please women splain......i am uncle to a couple of Trumpbros .20's somethings. Monday i could tell em women would respect them for being decent men........now their gonna think they are chumps for treating women with respect.
its like 00Donald...license to offend
catch any nick fuentes lately? well for ur sanity i hope not, but he is vile and gets alot of following in the brosphere
here is nick fuentes,,,,,print verson...vid awful........"On Tuesday night, Nick Fuentes, an influential white supremacist, tweeted: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”
I hear ya!! I can't talk to the idiots. I'll lose my shit. I've been fighting these battles all my life. King Shitpants is coming with a wrecking ball after unions. Right To Work states on the horizon. RTW laws are fundamentally based on Jim Crow laws.
we used to have a union shop.....rite in downtown FTW.....like for 40 years ..then rite to work. or as i like to call it the rite for carpenter's to be self-employed law. journeymen in 2024 making exactly what journeyman in 1982 were making....
My Irish relatives got their heads cracked open so everyone can enjoy a coffee break and a 40 work week. I'm 4 generations of Union workers. However, my dad did jump ship and became a member of the Business Roundtable for years. And continued to fight unions. He was blue collar until 1973. He was in with Koch. He was President of a company that built nuclear and coal fabrication plants around the world. We have never agreed on anything since than. He's a misogynistic bigoted asshole.
Michelle, thx for this. I agree with your path forward with some edits.
We need to:
- invest in grassroots infrastructure
- trumpet our Democratic values
- build & strengthen our own media network to inform, engage, and inspire Texas voters
As a Precinct Chair who blockwalked, mailed, and phone banked my far-south Travis County, my experience yielded this anecdotal data, specific to my precinct:
1. Nobody voted for me to be Precinct Chair. I volunteered bc no one else did. Guess I won in a landslide! :)
2. There were just 3 contested races for Precinct Chair out of the 450+ precincts in deep-blue Travis County last March. There were 4 on the R ballot, 14 in deeper red Williamson County.
3. Half the voters I spoke with expressed fears of violence or vandalism about putting up a yard sign. Again this is in deep blue Travis county, my precinct votes 70% Dem. I can’t imagine how bad it was outside Travis County.
4. Out of the 100+ people I spoke with, only one said they were more progressive than the TX Dems / Dems nationally.
From my point of view, Democrats in TX would do well to learn from Ben Wikler in WI.
Some key points from his recent Thread:
- Nationwide shift toward Trump of 6%, as every wealthy-country ruling party lost ground, regardless of whether it was L or R of center. Across Belgium, France, Japan, Austria, Portugal, the US, and the UK, the average swing was 20 pts. True for the first time in 120 years.
- Post-COVID inflation era marked a global wave against incumbent parties. In 2024, for the 1st year on record (w/120 yrs of data), every wealthy-country ruling party has lost ground, regardless of whether it was L or R of center. Across Belgium, France, Japan, Austria, Portugal, the US, and the UK, the average swing was 20 pts.
- In WI, the shift was just 1.5%. Not because Trump was weaker there, but because they were stronger. WI Dem persuaded & turned out even more voters for Harris than they did for Biden in 2020. They lost WI by just 0.9%— smallest margin of any state.
I don't know their entire operation. I do know that WI has year-round organizing and monthly donations that allow them to hire organizers year-round.
Thanks for an informative analysis for Democrats losing in Texas and some other states, Michelle. Here's my analysis, which is a little different, and I'd like to get your feedback.
The article below explains the reasons for Democrats losing in this election in southern Texas. It states, “He shared a video from one of his gatherings in which a woman complained that her husband, a Latino immigrant who had recently become a citizen, could no longer get a construction job because local contractors were hiring only unauthorized migrants, who generally worked at lower wages.”
Per Bernie Sanders, sixty percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have more than $400 in their bank accounts for an emergency. Those in this group didn’t benefit from the economy and stock market doing well in the last two years. They suffered when cost of food, energy, gas and rent increased by twenty percent in four years but their inflation adjusted income did not increase. It didn't help that the Federal Reserve kept the interest rates high for too long when inflation was under 3% and that made mortgage rates go high and buying a home unaffordable for many.
A young white working-class guy who came to our house a few days ago to provide a service said that he voted for Trump as he was better off financially four years ago. He agreed with all my reasons why I voted for Democrats. But it was more important for him that he was not better off today than four years ago. Another Hispanic young working-class guy who came to our house to provide another service about a month ago was genuinely concerned about California offering zero percent loans for home ownership to undocumented immigrants while citizens like him struggle with high mortgage rates. It seems that the California legislature passed such a bill with some strings attached but Gov. Newsom vetoed it evoked a lot of criticism.
As Reagan famously asked in the presidential debate in 1980, "Are you better off today than four years ago?" The answer was no for most Americans as they were adversely affected by inflation during President Carter's term. Reagan won in a landslide.
The migrants coming in the last four years were adversely affecting the income of many in the working class or they felt that their income will be threatened. A lot of these migrants are carpenters or plumbers or electricians and so on. So inflation and illegal immigration were the dominant issues in this election and both had an adverse impact on the working class. This is why President Biden's favorability rating tanked. As VP, Kamala was associated with the failure of the Biden administration to curb illegal administration and the aggregate price rise during the last 4 years by a lot of voters in the working class. They just ignored the many significant accomplishments of this administration.
As Carville famously said in 1992, “It is the economy, stupid.” Thoughts?
‘An Earthquake’ Along the Border: Trump Flipped Hispanic South Texas'
Thank you for your thoughts. I agree with much of what you’re saying—financial strain is hitting working-class Americans especially hard, and economic insecurity is a powerful motivator at the ballot box. As you noted, people remember who they were better off under and often look to past leaders who seemed to offer economic stability.
But I believe we need to look beyond inflation and immigration to a deeper, more systemic problem—corporate influence. Large corporations have been consolidating power and profit at the expense of workers for decades. While many Americans see the effects of inflation and feel abandoned by the political class, they’re often unaware that corporate profits have soared in these same industries, from food to energy. Wealth is increasingly funneled into the hands of a few, while regular Americans are left struggling with rising costs.
This corporate stranglehold on our country is a big reason I’m skeptical we’ll see improvements in the economy in the next four years, regardless of who holds office. Corporations have a stronghold on lobbying, policy, and even regulatory bodies like the Federal Reserve, which impacts interest rates and housing. Until we address corporate greed and its impact on the economy, I worry we’ll continue to see this cycle of economic hardship and division.
there is only 2 reasons my county became redder......either MAGA people moved here or we failed to engage our voters.......the first is pretty easy to figure out
i haven't done much investigation but maybe we grew 3-4% from 2020.
and it seems anecdoatally the everyone is moving from hi tax blue states to low tax Texas
its gonna be a thousand things and they aren't going away so we ought to deal.
Regarding the H vote. being white i don't have clue.....but here is an interesting fact and could be germane
"They tend to have larger families, they tend to be more working class, so they are probably — compared to some other groups, like whites — more likely to be pinched by higher inflation," Coleman told Salon in a phone interview.
and my own thougths: H's are largely Catholic or Catholic adjacent and have a different idea on abortion than white and black America
so as not to be too edumacated sounding....cause of course we dont' want to offend the tender sensibilities of the sports barstool crowd.....
a great example but not my own.......about MSG ......that hatefest Trump called Lovefest
"Trump was saying, in effect: The hate you saw was really love, and if you can’t see that, you’re the hateful one. " -Paul Rosenberg..
this is really important. Trump wants u to believe black is white and if u don't , your wrong.
Hitchock even made a movie...'Gaslight' . Hence the phrase's use in common parlance. Art imitates life , right. Itts a powerful psychological tool and I think most of us can easily relate in our own relations and arguments.
Do you think voter suppression and intimidation had anything to do with this in Texas? I don't live in your state and you are the master of what goes on there, I'm just an outsider that reads you- but I wonder if the tyrannical workings of Ken Paxton scared people.
Where does racism and misogyny fit in here- because I actually think those are the top two issues.
The most *consequential* election of our lifetime and Democrats stayed home just because they're upset that Harris floated too far to the middle. I'm struggling with that one. Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face. But then again I have seen a few comments from the far left who are super pissed at AOC for supporting Harris.
Perhaps I'm overly pragmatic, but step 1 is to save democracy, that means vote for Harris - Step 2 is to move the party from the middle to the left.
The Overton Window is completely fucked now, we will not get back to the middle in my lifetime, I'm 55.
I don't know when I'll get out of my grieving process, and right now I'm full of rage and hate for the Trump voters and the none voters. But they will find out soon enough what they bought..... because the Republican gestapo started taking their masks off already on Wednesday.
Suppression and intimidation did impact us, but not 7.9 million votes impacted. Too many people stayed home.
Paxton is as just as much a criminal as Trump. Expect the worst.
Yes, I do think racism and misogyny were a factor, but I just don’t know how much. How do we measure that?
I like your steps
And how do we explain that North Carolina selected a Democrat for a governor, Democrat for lieutenant governor, democrat for Secretary of State and Democrat for attorney General........ but then they turned around and voted for Trump because he won North Carolina supposedly? It defies logic.
There's only two possibilities:
1. Sexism and racism, and you almost have to exclude racism cuz they previously voted in black mark Robinson - which means sexism is the issue.
OR
2. Rigged
in my county......called the largest red county in the country by the R;s , we won Colin Allred,......a black dude , for Sentate........so i would go with 1.a.
BTW,,, NC is the shit!
Im mad at the non voters. The ones who “just couldn’t” vote for a woman. I’m just walking around Austin saying to myself “is this person a good person or a bad person?”when I say hi to folks. ‘Cause even here in Austin it’s a coin toss you’re a dumbass. Unfuckingbelievable y’all.
Yeah, last night we went out to dinner about 5:00 p.m. when everyone was getting off work - I just looked around at the people in cars saying: there's a trumper, there's another trumper, and another one. I hope they never need help from me, I will tell them to call a red cap.
Your step 1 and step 2 were mine too. But evidently more than half our democrats are racists or misogynists. WTF
It has to be misogyny - because this country voted Obama in for two terms.
Or they didn't vote. Also, many won't consciously admit -- even to themselves -- their misogyny or racism. Personally, my sense is that, in addition to the major issue of inflation, too many couldn't imagine a woman leader of the free world. And even more powerful than that was the disinformation reaching people we didn't through channels we never touch.
interesting question: since Trump won, nope, never happened,
trump loss,,,,.bring in the national guard
i do wish Harris and Biden has said something about Trump being a rapist ,,,u know, just to remind folks of what they signed up for
Here's a joke going around Germany, "what borders stupidity? Mexico and Canada."
Now THAT is funny
little know fact to Texans........Mexico has legalized abortion and a female president- Ole
don't know if anyone saw but some cucklehead were on campus at Texas State with the most offensive signs AFTER the election
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-university-trump-women-signs-b2643468.html
This election was about rascim, misogyny, greed and the fact that 54% of Americans are functionally illiterate. This country is dumber than bag of doorknobs. Can't leave out the lazy apathetic ones. Then there's classic invincible ignorance fallacy. Defending one's position while refusing to consider immutable contradictory facts. Agent Orange was given the Hare Psychopathic Test by over 200 noted mental health professionals. The scale is 1-40. Most humans are about a 5. Death row inmates are about a 22. Fuckwad was a 37.
This country will protect white privilege and their wealth at all costs. Women and minorities are the collateral damage. Republicans and some dumb ass democrats don't give two fucks about this country.
These mother fuckers are going to take a wrecking ball to our lives. It's fucked around and find out time. Stupid, stupid and fucking stupid. We need to learn how to deal with our narcissistic abusers. Emotional intelligence would help. And stop fucking voting for them.
Gawd, this country is so stupid. All over social media, stories of naturalized citizens talking about how they voted for Trump and the mass deportation won’t impact them, because he meant the other guys. People don’t know what tariffs are. And manufacturers are already raising their prices in preparation. We know that we live among stupid, how do we fix it?
I know we say we can't fix stupid. However, we better start thinking how. Great article BTW. 👏 💪
i took ur criticsm of FWST to heart...and i don't guess u watch CNN....but Texan Ed Lavendera , the reporter they send to all Hispance stories interviewed a Hispanic aka Mexican 'Trump themed' cafe owner in Az. The guy and his whole family was gaga over the win. That is CNN's coverage of the dystopia to come.
touche ..george conway.......u know, kelly anne's ex...had a Anti-Psychopath PAC
MSNBC was extremely resistant to labeling Trump a psychopath to the point of censuring some guests. CNN ...never heard the word.
things are going to be different now as Mary Trump describe Uncle Don's de-compensating........for u non psyc majors that means his brain is slowly coming apart.
what's an authoritarian? or whats' a fascist? we Dems spent most of our time calling Trump these things, crowsding out other issuse, without offering even the simplest , most adolescent, jr. hi level explanation of what this is and how it looks in real life.
Maybe we should have gone with: he’s a bad hombre. 🤦🏻♀️
’m listening to Republican strategist Sarah Longwell on NPR talking about public opinion of Trump’s tyrannical posture and she just said:
“When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘what’s an authoritarian?’”
We underestimated illiteracy- it’s not just vocabulary it’s conceptual. It’s also pervasive. Fuck.
I really read the room wrong. I thought we had convinced people of diverse viewpoints to unite under the big tent. I thought we were gonna elect her, then start fixing real issues like climate and Palestine progressively.
I completely underestimated the degree of misogyny in our culture. Even women to women. Holy hell, how we fight ignorance with school vouchers coming everywhere?
Vouchers are going to hurt us so much more 😭
i understand ur frustration....i woke up Wednesday wanting to throw in the towel....but a couple of days later i find myself plotting and scheming how to fight back. Its not messaging , its explaining what ur Dem govt did for you , and what ur R govt will do too u.
i think a totally important tactic: We never tell anyone what we have done for them. CHIPS Act?????? I thought CHIPS was Child Health Care. Turns out it is computer chips and a game changer. The Border, if memory serves, didn't Biden try some things and SCOTUS said hell no, ........Did u know how many times SCOTUS and R''s rebuked Biden Student Loan efforts? The list is long and not a single voter was made aware of our efforts on their behalf. How bout this, by some calculations Trump killed 1/2M Americans in his handling of COVID. Biden saved lives and saved the economy from free fall......remind u of anything like Obama and the Financial Crisis........How bout one dark commercial , a vote for Trump is a vote for Putin. Did Kamala really describe her programs in the way a poor dumb on-line poker playing 6 pack Jane could understand.
Anybody remember back in Summer when Project 2025 got in the news...........then we let it go.....a couple of cycles on CNN and we think we won the issue. Lo and behold it was back Day 1 of Trump 2.0 and its the plan for America for the next 250 years. We spent what, 45 minutes on it?
And speaking of SCOTUS , why not associate Roberts with the Robber Barons' or even the Devil. His court is tuning us into an oligarchy. That;s never good for the guys that cash their payroll check at the min-mart.
But really , how bout a commerical like this........Dark ominous music in the background...then the Voice.........'Trump dies himself orange, Vance wears eyeliner........could anyone be more Trans?......save ur kids, vote D' ......ps: i thunk that up in 2 minutes so imaging if I had $2B
and finally .......tell our ungrateful constituents what fucks they are. Labor?.........cause Kamala's a girl and a black one to boot you are gonna vote for the oligarch loving , labor gains roll backing, wife beater......hell he's not even white himself, he's orange. Could be his shit-hole genes expressing themselves.
But really, ladies....WTF...voting for the Rapist. That will take a team of social scientists at an Ivy League school with much govt. funding a decade or more to comprehend.They should be forced to wear the Scarlet T.They should be shunned.
There will be a movie: "50 Shades of America'
But we won't , we will try to moderate our message....Am i right?
I bet we can moderate our messages such that we end up not protecting the rights of anyone.
Ps: i think as a party we fundamentally misunderstand human nature. We think people are alot better than the really are. They need herding and that's what R's do.....they get that.
IMO, The Democrats need to dumb down their campaigns.
Plain and simple words with real life examples on policy differences between D and R. Also people learn better visually than they do with a bunch of words.
I fully comprehended Harris's campaign/policies and I understood all of her words - but those of us here on this post are educated and well read. The base the Democrats need to reach (uneducated and easily manipulated R voters) don't comprehend at the same level we do.
Yes. Candidates who talk like people, not politicians. I work with a group who can help with that, btw.
a headline in FWST today....‘I’m ecstatic’: What a Donald Trump 2.0 presidency means for Texas’ biggest industries"
that's it in a nutshell......we never beat industry or its workers over the head what Biden did and now Trump will take all the credit for investment in wind , solar and batteries in Texas.
forget about the worst air in the nation.
little know fact: Most of money from IRA.....i know what ur thinking 401k'..right, me too........... ...no the IRA is Biden $1T investment act..............and about 70% of that money went to red states like the Kingdom of Texas ...........no strings attached , no PR associated.....we tied our own noose cause the benefits never accrue to that administration.........
Democrats are too nice, they keep playing the game as originally designed, but that game changed 50 years ago by the republicans, specifically Reagan - the Democrats have been 50 years too slow to respond. They take the high road thinking that's going to pay off - Republicans take the low road, lie cheat corrupt, steal.
Plenty of people have been raising the alarms over the years, but they were told they were overreacting and being paranoid.
Project 2025 started in 1980 with Reagan, he's the one that put us down this path.
Correction: Jacky Rosen did not win his Senate seat. Jacky Rosen won HER Senate seat.
I know because my daughter lives in Nevada. ;-) We will (eventually) turn Texas blue.
Oops. I knew that. Sorry.
May it be so. What are some ways we can do that -- what lessons from Nevada?
I believe ignorance, disinformation and the desire for “2020 revenge” fueled a lot of the MAGA voters as well as many who were on the fence.
To those who sat on their butts and stayed home because they figured Trump couldn’t win so their vote was not needed: your apathy just put a convicted criminal in the White House again. And he won’t be happy just pardoning himself to stay out of jail. He’ll delight in the only thing he has ever loved besides himself: getting revenge on his enemies.
To all the misogynists, I have to say: it’s the 21st century! Countries all over the world have already elected women to lead their governments in recent decades. WTF?!! Even Mexico got enough men to elect their first woman president this year.
So, yeah: we need to work on the misogyny issue, voter apathy, and getting folks to turn out at the grass roots level for LOCAL and STATE elections. It starts from the ground up. The disinformation issue will be harder to overcome and is probably our worst enemy. Magas and non-voters will soon be having buyer’s remorse. Unfortunately, the rest of us also have to pay the price.
Thank you again, Michelle, for your always thorough, in-depth reports. Our work is cut out for us, and your efforts are so appreciated. 💙💙💙
Misogyny needs to be a fucking Hate Crime in this country.
100%. Have you seen the post-election reports of all the men posting on social media / walking up to women saying: "Your body. My choice!" ?!!! One mother reported that her daughter was approached three times in one day by high school boys who shouted that at her.
I'm completely disgusted with this country. Boxing lessons, how to put a boot to the balls, a security device on their person, scream at the top of their lungs, and practice these things. They have to have a don't fuck with me attitude. As a SA survivor, do it. Teach them. We are on our own. No one is coming to rescue us.
No more compromise on our progressive integrity 💪
I believe this election came down to racism and sexism. That is the reason my union, International Association of Firefighters did not endorse and many other white male dominated unions chose to sit it out. Sad to say but as a country we have a ways to go. I do believe we will get there but not without continuing our conversations with our neighbors and friends. I will again, when I stop being so damn mad at them.
I completely left my family group chat, even though only one person in there voted for Trump, that’s how mad I was.
I expected everything but the girl on girl violence.....are 53% of women in America Trad wives or wanna be's.
this really confuses me.
i appreciate the heart Lisa but i really want someone to explain it too me. i know several college educated MAGA women. I don't get them. Amongst other things the all are divorced and remarried and one spouse or the other has been violent or simply didn't hold up his end of the marriage contract.
please please women splain......i am uncle to a couple of Trumpbros .20's somethings. Monday i could tell em women would respect them for being decent men........now their gonna think they are chumps for treating women with respect.
its like 00Donald...license to offend
catch any nick fuentes lately? well for ur sanity i hope not, but he is vile and gets alot of following in the brosphere
I think this is gonna be a big deal.
here is nick fuentes,,,,,print verson...vid awful........"On Tuesday night, Nick Fuentes, an influential white supremacist, tweeted: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”
that meme is circulating now
I hear ya!! I can't talk to the idiots. I'll lose my shit. I've been fighting these battles all my life. King Shitpants is coming with a wrecking ball after unions. Right To Work states on the horizon. RTW laws are fundamentally based on Jim Crow laws.
Obstruction. That’s where we’re at.
we used to have a union shop.....rite in downtown FTW.....like for 40 years ..then rite to work. or as i like to call it the rite for carpenter's to be self-employed law. journeymen in 2024 making exactly what journeyman in 1982 were making....
My Irish relatives got their heads cracked open so everyone can enjoy a coffee break and a 40 work week. I'm 4 generations of Union workers. However, my dad did jump ship and became a member of the Business Roundtable for years. And continued to fight unions. He was blue collar until 1973. He was in with Koch. He was President of a company that built nuclear and coal fabrication plants around the world. We have never agreed on anything since than. He's a misogynistic bigoted asshole.
Michelle, thx for this. I agree with your path forward with some edits.
We need to:
- invest in grassroots infrastructure
- trumpet our Democratic values
- build & strengthen our own media network to inform, engage, and inspire Texas voters
As a Precinct Chair who blockwalked, mailed, and phone banked my far-south Travis County, my experience yielded this anecdotal data, specific to my precinct:
1. Nobody voted for me to be Precinct Chair. I volunteered bc no one else did. Guess I won in a landslide! :)
2. There were just 3 contested races for Precinct Chair out of the 450+ precincts in deep-blue Travis County last March. There were 4 on the R ballot, 14 in deeper red Williamson County.
3. Half the voters I spoke with expressed fears of violence or vandalism about putting up a yard sign. Again this is in deep blue Travis county, my precinct votes 70% Dem. I can’t imagine how bad it was outside Travis County.
4. Out of the 100+ people I spoke with, only one said they were more progressive than the TX Dems / Dems nationally.
From my point of view, Democrats in TX would do well to learn from Ben Wikler in WI.
Some key points from his recent Thread:
- Nationwide shift toward Trump of 6%, as every wealthy-country ruling party lost ground, regardless of whether it was L or R of center. Across Belgium, France, Japan, Austria, Portugal, the US, and the UK, the average swing was 20 pts. True for the first time in 120 years.
- Post-COVID inflation era marked a global wave against incumbent parties. In 2024, for the 1st year on record (w/120 yrs of data), every wealthy-country ruling party has lost ground, regardless of whether it was L or R of center. Across Belgium, France, Japan, Austria, Portugal, the US, and the UK, the average swing was 20 pts.
- In WI, the shift was just 1.5%. Not because Trump was weaker there, but because they were stronger. WI Dem persuaded & turned out even more voters for Harris than they did for Biden in 2020. They lost WI by just 0.9%— smallest margin of any state.
I don't know their entire operation. I do know that WI has year-round organizing and monthly donations that allow them to hire organizers year-round.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855037775503913057.html
Like Leslie Jones said, "Democrats have to stop bringing cake to a knife fight."
Thank you Michelle this is the best analysis I’ve read. Helps me see a way forward. Now writers and thinkers can cogitate on your words and take heart
Thanks for an informative analysis for Democrats losing in Texas and some other states, Michelle. Here's my analysis, which is a little different, and I'd like to get your feedback.
The article below explains the reasons for Democrats losing in this election in southern Texas. It states, “He shared a video from one of his gatherings in which a woman complained that her husband, a Latino immigrant who had recently become a citizen, could no longer get a construction job because local contractors were hiring only unauthorized migrants, who generally worked at lower wages.”
Per Bernie Sanders, sixty percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have more than $400 in their bank accounts for an emergency. Those in this group didn’t benefit from the economy and stock market doing well in the last two years. They suffered when cost of food, energy, gas and rent increased by twenty percent in four years but their inflation adjusted income did not increase. It didn't help that the Federal Reserve kept the interest rates high for too long when inflation was under 3% and that made mortgage rates go high and buying a home unaffordable for many.
A young white working-class guy who came to our house a few days ago to provide a service said that he voted for Trump as he was better off financially four years ago. He agreed with all my reasons why I voted for Democrats. But it was more important for him that he was not better off today than four years ago. Another Hispanic young working-class guy who came to our house to provide another service about a month ago was genuinely concerned about California offering zero percent loans for home ownership to undocumented immigrants while citizens like him struggle with high mortgage rates. It seems that the California legislature passed such a bill with some strings attached but Gov. Newsom vetoed it evoked a lot of criticism.
As Reagan famously asked in the presidential debate in 1980, "Are you better off today than four years ago?" The answer was no for most Americans as they were adversely affected by inflation during President Carter's term. Reagan won in a landslide.
The migrants coming in the last four years were adversely affecting the income of many in the working class or they felt that their income will be threatened. A lot of these migrants are carpenters or plumbers or electricians and so on. So inflation and illegal immigration were the dominant issues in this election and both had an adverse impact on the working class. This is why President Biden's favorability rating tanked. As VP, Kamala was associated with the failure of the Biden administration to curb illegal administration and the aggregate price rise during the last 4 years by a lot of voters in the working class. They just ignored the many significant accomplishments of this administration.
As Carville famously said in 1992, “It is the economy, stupid.” Thoughts?
‘An Earthquake’ Along the Border: Trump Flipped Hispanic South Texas'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/texas-border-latinos-election.html
Thank you for your thoughts. I agree with much of what you’re saying—financial strain is hitting working-class Americans especially hard, and economic insecurity is a powerful motivator at the ballot box. As you noted, people remember who they were better off under and often look to past leaders who seemed to offer economic stability.
But I believe we need to look beyond inflation and immigration to a deeper, more systemic problem—corporate influence. Large corporations have been consolidating power and profit at the expense of workers for decades. While many Americans see the effects of inflation and feel abandoned by the political class, they’re often unaware that corporate profits have soared in these same industries, from food to energy. Wealth is increasingly funneled into the hands of a few, while regular Americans are left struggling with rising costs.
This corporate stranglehold on our country is a big reason I’m skeptical we’ll see improvements in the economy in the next four years, regardless of who holds office. Corporations have a stronghold on lobbying, policy, and even regulatory bodies like the Federal Reserve, which impacts interest rates and housing. Until we address corporate greed and its impact on the economy, I worry we’ll continue to see this cycle of economic hardship and division.
Agreed.
if u can get over the terror and panic. this is gonna be fun
John Coryn, formerty the dumbest man in the US Senate , may be its leader. this pisses off Tucker and Co.
Donald Trump's allies are panicking about what they say is a potential "coup" being organized by Mitch McConnell against the incoming president.
Details are that McConnel is trying to install Coryn by calling early elections.
Cruz will maintain his position as biggest POS in Senate History, besting Strom Thurmond.
there is only 2 reasons my county became redder......either MAGA people moved here or we failed to engage our voters.......the first is pretty easy to figure out
i haven't done much investigation but maybe we grew 3-4% from 2020.
and it seems anecdoatally the everyone is moving from hi tax blue states to low tax Texas
Still doesn't explain Colin Allred though?
brigh minds...what say u?
Texas A&M cancels LBGQT studies program.....because Sally Slots or Joe Barstool'ss shot at higher ed was impinged?
or
bigoted fucktards or/and because Dan Partrick* waved his kerchief in the direction of the committee in charge and said 'off with their heads"
either way TAMU regents and admin....cowards
*a guy still in search of his chin
its gonna be a thousand things and they aren't going away so we ought to deal.
Regarding the H vote. being white i don't have clue.....but here is an interesting fact and could be germane
"They tend to have larger families, they tend to be more working class, so they are probably — compared to some other groups, like whites — more likely to be pinched by higher inflation," Coleman told Salon in a phone interview.
and my own thougths: H's are largely Catholic or Catholic adjacent and have a different idea on abortion than white and black America
Since he's back it deserves repeating and accentuating....something Media failed to do,
DONALD TRUMP IS A MALGNANT NARCISST AND HIS WHOLE CAMPAIGN WAS GASLIGHTING AMERICA
and we are his victims
so as not to be too edumacated sounding....cause of course we dont' want to offend the tender sensibilities of the sports barstool crowd.....
a great example but not my own.......about MSG ......that hatefest Trump called Lovefest
"Trump was saying, in effect: The hate you saw was really love, and if you can’t see that, you’re the hateful one. " -Paul Rosenberg..
this is really important. Trump wants u to believe black is white and if u don't , your wrong.
Hitchock even made a movie...'Gaslight' . Hence the phrase's use in common parlance. Art imitates life , right. Itts a powerful psychological tool and I think most of us can easily relate in our own relations and arguments.