It had enough of an influence that many Democrats tried desperately to distance themselves from any semblance of whatever “woke” is, which is a criticism they can’t escape because it means whatever their critics, and even many of their ostensible advocates, want it to mean. And every fucking pundit who was telling us how certain Harris was to trounce Trump are now ‘Monday morning quarterbacking’ the mistakes that Harris and other Democrats made in not distancing themselves from ‘the woke’.
Meanwhile, Trump had no plan, no real campaign unless you consider standing on stage and ranting incoherently for hours, or sometimes just swaying to ‘Ave Maria’ for forty of the most awkward minutes in political history. And he won handily anyway, despite being objectively not only the most unqualified person to ever run for president (and I’m including Joe Exotic in comparison), a convicted felon, an acknowledged (if not convicted) rapist, and the man who incited an insurrection last time he was legally required to relinquish power. Despite that Harris got near record numbers in the popular vote for a Democratic candidate, beating what both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump pulled in in 2016 (even adjusted for population growth), 75 million voters saw all of Trump’s character in plain view and decided to vote for him anyway, because in my opinion the American public has been primed for fascism and Donald Trump is their ideal, clownish leader who will drag them down the well-tread path of fascism while most of them (at least, the ones strenuously objecting to not liking Trump but voting for him anyway because he is somehow in their view ‘the least of all evils’). And you know why? Because none of these fucktards knew enough about history—not even history still in living memory—to recognize fascism or understand its ultimate consequences even when it is right in front of them in waving red flags and collective hatred against a defenseless ‘other’ outgroup.
So, fuck no, Democrats and anyone else who actually cares about justices and liberty and equality and all that ‘shit’ should not forget about the past in order to ‘win elections’, and they certainly shouldn’t bow before the stock strawman arguments of the o.p. because would be a meaningless and hollow victory if it doesn’t actually stand for their ostensible values, even the ones they often seek to distance themselves from in the name of political expediency.
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