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I don't think anyone in the political space failed to recognize it as an existential threat; its that Harris didn't campaign as if it was an existential threat.
If it was such an existential threat, why would you actively disenfranchise your base?
If it was such an existential threat, why would you say things like "I would do nothing fundamentally different than the current administration", when the administration was DEEPLY unpopular?
If it was such an existential threat, why did you spend 1.5 billion dollars trying to court voters which you have never been able to get, specifically by elevating some of the least popular voices within their own party (eg, Liz Cheney and Republican voters)?
Nothing about how the Harris campaign operated beyond selecting Walz as VP demonstrated that they recognized Trump as an existential threat to Democracy. Voices were, in the course of the campaign, CLAMORING, for them to do better. They didn't listen and they chose the approaches they did.
Because they didn't realize how many idiotic left leaning Americans there are.
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They knew that their base wouldn’t turn out for a candidate who supported a genocide. They decided to run one anyways. They thought making sure Israel could continue its genocide was more important than winning against Trump. But yeah sure blame the people who aren’t sociopaths.
Bro, we are not their base.
What's the number of voters who would have voted for Kamala if she had opposed the genocide but didn't?
I can’t give you a specific estimate but the DNC tried to burry a report that showed Kamala’s support for Israel cost her key votes. That should tell you what you need to know.
That said you can also just look at the vote differences between 2020 and 2024. Kamala lost more votes than Trump gained relative to the 2020 vote counts. It’s clear from those results that democratic turnout was depressed in 2024 when the admin’s policy towards Gaza was one of the most obvious divides between democratic leadership and democratic voters.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
None of them recognize that opposition to Israel has only recently become a slightly mainstream position. She would have lost far more voters than she would have gained had she strongly supported Palestine. These people are fucking idiots.
They tried to appeal to moderates instead, and it failed. There was no position on the genocide that would have helped Democrats in 2024.