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Democrats reeling from their narrow electoral loss in 2024 have turned to many explanations, and also point to some worrying trends. The rising Latino share of the nation's voting population has long been a beacon of hope for the future of the party, offering a future where a
Perhaps against better judgement, particularly given the poor performance of incumbents worldwide of late, many liberals went into the 2024 election cautiously optimistic, hoping that a mentally declining Trump and his fanbase of increasingly open racists would finally turn off the American population once and for all. The next day
It's unclear precisely why the Post and Times have taken this direction ...But their decisions feel like ‘neutrality’ not in the sense of reasoned independence but rather a cowardly refusal to make a stand.
More Progressive - but not more liberal - than expected President Joseph Biden entered the 2020 presidential field and was immediately, for better and worse, identified as the ‘establishment’, ‘centrist’ candidate of the major candidates with a real chance at winning. There description was not inaccurate, especially compared to the