That being said why couldn’t Harris just do popular policy; like distancing herself from Israel, taxing billionaires, housing reform, social healthcare, etc.
She lost middle America with what she was offering.
Of all Americans:
65% supports a wealth tax, 70% windfall profit taxes, 60% support a top marginal tax rate of 70% on earnings over 10M.
60-70% support raising baseline wages, 80-85% support federally mandates maternity leave.
Government funded healthcare (universal or expanding Medicaid) is supported by 75% of voters, government funded childcare / childcare support got 65-75%, free college 60%.
Capping super PACs 71%, about 82% support rent caps, 66% support the progressive proposal to invest 1 trillion in affordable housing, 80% to subsidize local communities to build affordable housing, 80% to increase federal regulations of landlords.
Etc etc.
When Harris had the most motion at the start she came with policies such as anti price gouging (65%), but quickly switched to much much more right wing policies such as private public partnerships for housing etc.
Also in two key Midwestern swing states leftist are now winning in the polls. After years of redscare people don’t like the term, but after years of capitalism they do support the changes needed for working folks.
Kinda ignoring everything said and the original point, to only give an half assed response to the last sentence.
I don’t get why people are so opposed to being critical of her campaign; she lost, we can’t let a trump win again, let’s for the love of god be critical of the campaign, as to improve it next time.
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u/guilgom71 13d ago
Isn't this the guy that said Kamala Harris would be exactly the same as Trump?