# SenorBeef And The Streisand Effect

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**Created:** [December 19, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senorbeef-and-the-streisand-effect/1011866 "2024-12-19T13:49:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senorbeef-and-the-streisand-effect/1011866/151 "2024-12-30T16:12:37Z")

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Not sure if this fits better over in the [linked thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774) in Politics and Elections, but since it’s a tongue-in-cheek humor column, I guess I’ll put Dave Barry’s take on the election from his most recent year-in-review column here along with a [gift link](https://wapo.st/4gUaMmq). (Note that they make you create a free account to use the link.)

> [@Dave Barry](#):
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> …In a matter of seconds these experts pivot from being spectacularly clueless about what was going to happen in the election to confidently explaining what happened in the election.
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> One theory is that it was not a great idea for Democrats to insist that Biden was fine until it was embarrassingly obvious that he was not, then replace him, via a secret process, with a candidate who was not great at talking and did not run in a single primary and who previously advocated positions that many Americans were not crazy about, which is why they voted, sometimes reluctantly, for Trump.
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> One branch of the Democratic Party accepts this theory and begins the painful but necessary process of self-examination. Another branch prefers to believe that the party is fine and the real problem is that most Americans are sexist, racist, pro-fascist morons, which might not be a winning message for Democrats going forward, but it does enable this branch to feel better about itself.

There’s truth in jest, as my mother-in-law was fond of saying. Maybe I need to re-examine my own conclusion following the election that most Americans are indeed sexist, racist, pro-fascist morons.

P.S. I didn’t actually realize Dave Barry was still writing columns, but he apparently still does these year-in-review ones, at least sometimes.

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