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What you read about the GOP in 2012 was true, though. Look what it became. If that isn't a marker of its complete uselessness, what is?

The Democrats just lost, badly, to a Sith Lord. There should be alarm bells and party firings with a Kotite/McDaniels urgency. And, if it were me, there'd be a top-down rethinking inside major media companies that have botched their journalistic mission so completely that YouTubers have taken the mic. I suppose MSNBC can do what it wants as the tech progressive house organ, but just about everyone else should look in the mirror.

 

Don't overthink it Alma. The Democrats had an incumbent President with an approval rating of 40. Harris did well to keep it as close as she did. Didn't even lose as badly as Trump did in 2020 by popular vote.

 

That unpopular incumbent is the only person in history to defeat Trump (and from a basement no less).

 

That's when Trump was the unpopular incumbent.

 

And the fact that he didn't remain unpopular as a private citizen/perpetual defendant/convicted felon/cosplay garbageman/Village Person reject is a colossal tragedy.

 

No argument there, but Americans have very short attention spans in normal conditions, and it's my opinion the pandemic was so traumatic it created a national memory wipe. All voters remembered was like food prices from 2018.

 

Oh it definitely did create amnesia. What horrors from Trump: Folie a Deux will America forget this time?

 

The Kotite reference is apt. Four years in Philly. Voted out. Yet remarkably hired again. (By another team, but still incredible.)

 

Rich Uptight. Ah, the memories.

 

It's important to note that incumbents around the globe have lost elections in the last couple of years. Political affiliation and left/right hasn't mattered. Labour was finally victorious in the UK, ousting the Tories for the first time in a while. South Korea's opposition party won, weaking the governing party's strength by a significant margin. Even South Africa's dominant party - the party of Nelson Mandela - lost control because voters felt it was no longer accomplishing what it set out to do.

Incumbents always face a challenge, but 2023 and 2024 might have been the worst years to be the party in power in any democratic nation.

 

I just wish that the non-incumbent party didn't have as its leader someone who bleated racist pet-eating nonsense during his only debate. The enormous price we paid for high prices. SMDH.