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In reply to the discussion: Those who REFUSED to vote for VP Harris in 2024 have blood on their hands, and will never be able to live this disaster [View all]appmanga
(1,413 posts)...still, there's more than enough blame to go around.
For MAGA and other Republicans who didn't find Trump's racism, criminality, and avarice to be enough of a deterrent. For blacks, and others, co-opted by the stimulus checks and their bigotry against gay and trans people. For the huge numbers of Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Venezuela-Americans who deluded themselves into thinking their hero Trump wouldn't come after their relatives, and who also harbor bigotry against those who are LGBTQ+. For Muslim-Americans who felt Harris was a worse advocate for Gaza and Palestinians than Trump.
But also for those many more than a few white-American Democrats who remain closeted about it, who voted for Trump ostensibly because of "the price of eggs", which has became the acceptable in some quarters lie to cover up their unwillingness to vote for a black woman.
And lastly, for those Democrats and independent who made up their minds to stay home and not vote for the not-perfect Democratic candidate for some over the reasons noted above and others.
Just as it was with Hillary, too many people let their picayune concerns blind them to the bigger picture. The failure to elect Hillary and Harris has left us with issues that are going to take more than a generation to change or resolve, and has allowed Trump to be a proving ground for smarter version of a kleptocratic, oligarchic, kakistocratic, autocratic fascist to succeed where he's failed should we not fix to ability of such a person to ever obtain the reins of power.