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  • Liz Cheney is a metaphor for their continued attempts of trying to convince Republicans to switch instead of getting the traditional base out. No Republicans switched to Democrats because they never do, and a whole bunch of traditional constituencies sat out the election because it looked like whether you voted for Democrats or Republicans, you ended up with Republican policies either way.

    It’s always been the case that the Democratic voters need to be excited, while Republicans basically just go to every election and vote the same way (Trump being an exception who managed to get some traditional non-voters to go to the polls in addition to that). If the leadership of the Democratic party chose to keep doubling down on the strategy of going after the mythical antifascist Republican voters for multiple elections, failing every time, that’s not due to the voters, or the ‘left’, that’s entirely the fault of leadership.







  • Yeah, their whole strategy depends on high information voters knowing exactly what their representative voted for, it’s ridiculous because:

    • almost all of Trump’s voters are ‘low information’ (with the exception of billionaires that know exactly what’s going on, but they’re negligible as an actual demographic).
    • there’s a whole information ecosystem of Fox, boomer Facebook, super PACs funded ads, etc that will lie or just omit inconvenient information

    So the Democrats’ strategy is to get Republicans to vote for unpopular stuff that Republican voters will never hear about. Republicans have been passing super unpopular stuff for half a century now, their voters don’t care.