I think you’re a bit confused about what people criticizing capitalism are criticizing. Putin’s war in Ukraine, while there are definitely some annoying tankies downplaying it, that is a perfect example of what most leftists criticize capitalism for. Big capitalist nations imperializing smaller ones.

Your explanation also fails to account for how Trump also gained a whopping 11 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016.

And the Rust Belt was energized by Trump. You flip it to a candidate they view as more inspiring than Trump in a state like Ohio (someone with an ideology closer to say Sherrod Brown who easily won over a Trumpist in 2018) that person wins those states.

Trump was on the ballot and just as scary in 2016 and ten million fewer people came out to vote against him. Safe to say vote by mail being expanded due to the pandemic had an impact (and honestly that’s a good thing Dems should push for in all elections, I’m not a Trumper who thinks that means the election was…

If you truly think Biden hasn’t been able to deliver on his promises, none of which had to do with defunding the police because someone on Twitter said to defund the police, you’ve been unbelievably brainwashed.

People on this site citing the Afghanistan withdrawal as a positive shows this site isn’t free from mindless partisanship. This is supposed to be a women’s site. Ask any Afghan women and feminist activists how well the Biden plan for Afghanistan withdrawal worked out for them.

Plenty of reputable polls showed him winning. But be my guest, nominate Biden again because only he’s shown he can beat Trump despite his historically low approval rating and see how that goes.

Yes they would’ve actually. Because voting was made way easier in 2020 due to the pandemic. Do people really think the record turnout was because Trump and Biden were such exciting candidates?

Wait what? Yes they did. Even in super conservative states like South Carolina where Biden won overall in a landslide, young people backed Bernie.

Joe Biden endorsed Kyrsten Sinema in her primary against a progressive challenger. If she is impossible to work with in Congress, he could’ve found that out from her time in the House before he endorsed her. By endorsing her, he has no one to blame but himself.

You mean the Congress his party controlled and that’s caucus’s most conservative members he still trusted enough to endorse in their primary:

Here is what you said verbatim:

I mean you said people like me (even though I’ve voted Dem for Congress and will continue to) are the reason Dems will lose Congress.

You don’t need to be a scientist to critique a study. But you can’t just attack a study based on no scientific study or scientist’s opinion. Citing sources for an elected official dictating scientific policy is actually quite important. You’d think someone who claims to know so much about science like you would…

We have them at the federal level for president. I don’t see corruption as any worse among presidents than Congress.

But Republicans voted for Feinstein’s progressive young Latino Dem opponent in Cali since Cali has a system where two Dems can make the GE. Cali Dems voted for Feinstein and since Cali has more Dems than Repubs that was enough to win for Feinstein. It can’t be about just voting. What places like this site have to get…

2018 when Feinstein was reelected had high turnout and high youth turnout:

Chuck Grassley currently too. I’ve trashed Cali Dems for voting Feinstein in again in 2018 but Iowa Repubs are probably going to do the same this year.

So come in and voluntarily advise younger leaders. I’m sure many would be fine with that.

Fair enough.