Vincent Oriedo, a biotechnology scientist, had just such a question. What lessons have been learned, he asked, from Harris’s defeat in this vital swing county in a crucial battleground state that voted for Joe Biden four years ago, and how are the Democrats applying them?
“They did not answer the question,” he said.
“It tells me that they haven’t learned the lessons and they have their inner state of denial. I’ve been paying careful attention to the influencers within the Democratic party. Their discussions have centred around, ‘If only we messaged better, if only we had a better candidate, if only we did all these superficial things.’ There is really a lack of understanding that they are losing their base, losing constituencies they are taking for granted.”
“We have set ourselves up for generational loss because we keep promoting from within leaders that that do not criticise the moneyed interests. They refuse to take a hard look at what Americans actually believe and meet those needs.”
Fetterman kissed the ring on tv because of the demographics of his district made it more profitable to do it in public. The rest of the centrist dems will do it in private. There will always be symbolic pushback on things, but when dem votes are needed by corporate or aipac they will magically materialize as if out of thin air. They always do.
When the repubs do their promised constitutional changes, watch, the dems will get in line behind them, bellyaching the whole time about how outraged they are. There will be symbolic responsible senator, to blame the entire dem “collapse” on. Probably Fetterman.