This is profound. I always had this intuition, but didn't occur to me I was doing the exact same thing I was frustrated others were doing

this is a vibes based electorate. So you're never really down and out. You can always win them over with a sufficiently charismatic candidate. Trying to triangulate the most appealing policies to run on is for the birds

Find a candidate who people like (even for useless reasons), and they'll win

She's been pretty spot on with her analysis post election; and she's one of very few people who have changed *some* of their priors post-election. Everybody else just thinks the result proved them even more right than they were before despite predicting a Harris win...

That's great, so let's do with Biden what we always do with Trump - post mean things about him on the internet while he does whatever he wants anyway and gets rewarded politically for it

We can cry about what "ought to happen", but Biden's son walks free, as he should

Exactly! We're not great at guessing who will resonate with the electorate, so let's just ask them lol

Yep, all these postmortems are useless. The only thing the DNC needs to do is stay out of the way in 2028. Run an open and fair primary, and the right candidate will emerge. It might be that simple

This is so pathetic and weak

I agree. In a way this whole post mortem is a useless exercise. We have idea what will be politically salient in 2028. All we need to do is open the primaries to as wide a range of candidates as possible, and see who resonates with the public. It just might be that simple

Is this a reference to that Cheers scene? lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vulW...

And when it does happen, the "savvy" journalists will do what they always do - focus their ire on the excesses of the Left, while ignoring the crime against humanity that's taking place by the Right.