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Why Did Democrats Lose So Badly?

Why Did Democrats Lose So Badly?

Time for political soul-searching

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Nov 10, 2024
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I’m still processing what happened in the 2024 election. It’s way too easy to attribute Kamala Harris’s loss entirely to racism, sexism, voter stupidity, or to blame “the media.” Such reductive, superficial victimhood simply doesn’t stand up to rigorous analysis.

A former colleague, now retired in Florida, writes that she is doing “polite investigations …

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