So first I’m not American, so I didn’t do anything, but that aside:
Explain how allowing Trump to return to power was better in any way. Pick something, anything that was so unacceptable that you couldn’t vote for Harris and explain how allowing Trump to return to power was the better option. Pick multiple things if you want.
The GOP is obviously a lost cause, but the DNC doesn’t have to be. Allowing the DNC to succeed in the election after their attempt to shift to the right again would set the precedent that they can do whatever the fuck they want and people will still vote for them. Then your two options become the fascist GOP or the now actively harmful DNC, and there’s nowhere that can lead other than GOP fascism. Between the choice of Trump now or JD Vance in 8 years, Trump now is the better choice if it will allow you to avoid JD Vance in 8 years. Which leads to my other point:
So your plan was to allow him to return to power and just hope to be able to resist later? You didn’t think this thing through very well, did you?
The ideal scenario would be mass Democrat protests (and other direct action such as strikes if and when protesting fails) when the DNC nominated Harris without a primary that would lead to the nomination of a competent candidate or at least a better platform for Harris than the monstrosity she ran with. I mean Republicans in her cabinet? Border wall? Just yikes. Anyway the American public chose to stay silent here. The less ideal but still workable scenario would be a Democrat mass movement riding the wave of Abandon Harris and the Uncommitted movement to, again, force the DNC to relent on their unpopular platform. The American public either stayed silent or actively ridiculed these movements, telling them to “hold your nose and vote for her”. From that point onward there was no happy ending and the only thing to be done was damage control. With that in mind let’s think about how the damage could be controlled: One way would be, as you said, to vote for Harris and try to avoid the current situation. That allows you to bet on Trump dying or being convicted before 2028, but in the case he wasn’t he was 100% going to win in 2028 because Harris’s platform put to action was going to piss off everyone to the left of Dick Cheney, and her being a black woman would piss off everyone to the right of Dick Cheney. Also, even if Trump was out of the picture before 2028 you’d run the risk of the GOP nominee being an actual good politician riding the Trumpist wave to destroy the country worse than Trump—who is fundamentally limited by being dumber than a sack of potatoes— ever could. Standing in the face of all this would be a DNC that learned from their 2024 victory that being outwardly rightwing corporate stooges works. The short of it problem with a Harris 2024 victory was that nothing Harris was going to do in her term was going to prevent a Trump/Trump clone from winning 2028. “Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it” doesn’t work when American leftists have proven time and time again that they don’t know how to cross bridges. The other option is… well, you’re living it right now. Again, nothing is going to happen without a mass movement against Trumpism and for progressive economic policy so if nobody does anything (which seems to be the case) y’all are toast but that was going to be the case no matter who won the 2024 election.
And exactly what do you expect them to do now that you’ve stripped them from all power at every level of government?
The DNC isn’t leftist, just to make that clear. By leftists I mean actual American people with leftist values, and as for what they can do… well, there are many things but you can ask the French or the Spanish. Spaniards went on a general strike in October where
they called the country to come to a complete halt until the government breaks its diplomatic relations with Israel, as well as its commercial and military ties that include a weapons trade valued at over one billion euros.
Now I’m not talking about solidarity with Palestine here, but this is one way to make your government do something it doesn’t want to do. So why are we not hearing of Americans going on strike to stop the Trump government from ruining the country?
And wouldn’t it have been easier to just hold your nose, vote for Harris, and prevent this situation from occurring in the first place?
So first I’m not American, so I didn’t do anything, but that aside:
The GOP is obviously a lost cause, but the DNC doesn’t have to be. Allowing the DNC to succeed in the election after their attempt to shift to the right again would set the precedent that they can do whatever the fuck they want and people will still vote for them. Then your two options become the fascist GOP or the now actively harmful DNC, and there’s nowhere that can lead other than GOP fascism. Between the choice of Trump now or JD Vance in 8 years, Trump now is the better choice if it will allow you to avoid JD Vance in 8 years. Which leads to my other point:
The ideal scenario would be mass Democrat protests (and other direct action such as strikes if and when protesting fails) when the DNC nominated Harris without a primary that would lead to the nomination of a competent candidate or at least a better platform for Harris than the monstrosity she ran with. I mean Republicans in her cabinet? Border wall? Just yikes. Anyway the American public chose to stay silent here. The less ideal but still workable scenario would be a Democrat mass movement riding the wave of Abandon Harris and the Uncommitted movement to, again, force the DNC to relent on their unpopular platform. The American public either stayed silent or actively ridiculed these movements, telling them to “hold your nose and vote for her”. From that point onward there was no happy ending and the only thing to be done was damage control. With that in mind let’s think about how the damage could be controlled: One way would be, as you said, to vote for Harris and try to avoid the current situation. That allows you to bet on Trump dying or being convicted before 2028, but in the case he wasn’t he was 100% going to win in 2028 because Harris’s platform put to action was going to piss off everyone to the left of Dick Cheney, and her being a black woman would piss off everyone to the right of Dick Cheney. Also, even if Trump was out of the picture before 2028 you’d run the risk of the GOP nominee being an actual good politician riding the Trumpist wave to destroy the country worse than Trump—who is fundamentally limited by being dumber than a sack of potatoes— ever could. Standing in the face of all this would be a DNC that learned from their 2024 victory that being outwardly rightwing corporate stooges works. The short of it problem with a Harris 2024 victory was that nothing Harris was going to do in her term was going to prevent a Trump/Trump clone from winning 2028. “Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it” doesn’t work when American leftists have proven time and time again that they don’t know how to cross bridges. The other option is… well, you’re living it right now. Again, nothing is going to happen without a mass movement against Trumpism and for progressive economic policy so if nobody does anything (which seems to be the case) y’all are toast but that was going to be the case no matter who won the 2024 election.
The DNC isn’t leftist, just to make that clear. By leftists I mean actual American people with leftist values, and as for what they can do… well, there are many things but you can ask the French or the Spanish. Spaniards went on a general strike in October where
Now I’m not talking about solidarity with Palestine here, but this is one way to make your government do something it doesn’t want to do. So why are we not hearing of Americans going on strike to stop the Trump government from ruining the country?
See above.