either the prophet Elijah or maybe a Dave Clark Five song that said, "You will have sexist, racist swine in American politics always." It's been true for as long as I have been alive, I can tell you. They were pretty much the majority when I was younger (so much younger than today). But they haven't been in decades, and alone do not have the power to determine the outcome of a presidential election. I suspect that the author of the OP is suggesting that we consider why other groups did not vote for VP Harris, if they voted at all.

Once upon a time we had two real parties in this country. They challenged each other and made each other better in some ways, not so much in others. Now we have only one party because the GOP has become the Party Of Whatever Trump Wants. They are no longer a party that means anything else.

Party of Law & Order? Not when you promote a felon to the White House.

Party of Fiscal Responsibility? Too many decades of handing tax break to the wealthy did that one in.

Party of Family Values? Not when you promote rapists to run our country.

The GOP has broken this country completely. Trump should have been convicted within a year of leaving office, but that didn't happen because there are too many Republicans in power in all the places that matter. SCOTUS, FBI, DOJ, Commerce, etc. It will take decades to clean up this mess and it will require a complete rethinking of how government should be formed and run. Is the DNC up to it? I have my doubts.

I've been saying essentially the same thing for years (although your analogy is much more dramatic). Throw in a good measure of lie spreading on the "news" and social media and we have the recipe for what just happened.

King like executive orders (like pardons) from a POTUS that overrule legal considerations.

A legal system that often can't be bothered for political reasons.

A Supreme Court that is supposed to be impartial politically, but isn't.

A Constitution that is more a pick-and-choose which parts you think are important to your cause, and which bits can be ignored.

And the old chestnuts: the Electoral College and gerrymandering.

(Does living far away from America give me a clearer insight than locals?)

South Korea does it better - leader is naughty, leader gets arrested promptly.

meanwhile, repukes started both Afghanistan and Iraq wars which ultimately accomplished NOTHING but cost many lives and so much money

and remember who ultimately got Bin Laden? that doesn't count either

coming into my house.

It was the most unprofessional disgraceful vomit that I had seen coming from that piss ant.

won't be honest.

Working for a small nonprofit, you have to occasionally take contracts to a local government board for approval. It is amazing how even after winning the election, MAGA right wingers religiously attend these small board meetings to bash programs designed to help immigrants, expand voter education, or promote DEI.

Progressives have given up and instead hide out in bubbles like this board and scape goat the media, the establishment, etc., while MAGA types do not just stay in their right wing bubble, but are quite willing to spread their views outside of their bubble.

The 2024 election was still close notwithstanding the fact that Trump won, but if you based who won on who tends to show up at local government meetings, you would think that 90 percent of people believe in MAGA.

Again, go to a school board or local government meeting and there is a good chance you will see a small number of MAGA types who will happily use any item referencing help to immigrants, DEI or voting as an invitation to push right wing talking points. While they are wrong, they unfortunately are not content to keep their ignorance to themselves are very aggressive about spreading their racist views at the grassroots local level.

One party supports and amplifies their base, while the other actively scorns, mocks, and allows open hostility towards theirs in the hopes of picking up some “good” republicans.

After a campaign of demoralizing your base, there’s no wonder they find it hard to show up to vote. The grassroots level also includes anti war protests. We need those young and politically active people’s votes. Instead there were vilified and brutally attacked and called terrorist. Not a strategy for winning.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

We scapegoat media, the establishment, the parties to blame for why progressives hide out and keep silent in forums like this to preach to the choir. We have trained ourselves to be powerless. For a party that professes to believe in grassroots, it is surprising how we keep on asking for some topdown approach.

It is not like Mitch McConnell or Trump are spending the morning in a school board. And the MAGA types are also heckling Republicans on the Board if they are inclined to vote for anything that deviates from hard right myth.

Progressive self deception as an excuse for our inaction is the reason why we will lose. Watching this board as folks proudly talk about how they avoid MAGA types and scapegoat the media, establishment, corporations, etc., but neglect to even show up at a local school board to confront the ignorance that is being pushed at a grassroots level roots level. We want someone to hold our hand and do it for us.

50 years of playing the patsy has created the alignment you described.

We have to be willing to let Republicans fail, even if it hurts decent people.

We are a nation of fuckwits and sociopaths. Trump represents the fuckwits and sociopaths perfecftly as he is both a fuckwit and a sociopath.

It wasn’t so much they voted for Trump but poll said 19,000 people who voted for Biden 4 yrs ago didn’t vote for Kamala for different reasons but Gaza was a biggie for the young.

And they wee warned that over confidence could happen, but, it was denied.