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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 106 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (28 children)

Are you fucking kidding? Because Biden 2020 was a progressive platform and Harris 2024 was a centrist one. They weren't even remotely similar. Biden may be a centrist, but he's very pro-labor, and he could see how important the progressive base was that election, so he literally sat down with Sanders and hammered out a platform that they could get behind. And while I've got a lot of problems with Joe Biden, he actually was very committed to that platform. He really wanted BBB to get through and he kept trying to find ways to abolish student debt.

Harris, on the other hand, had a handful of disparate, vaguely left policy positions, like the first-time homebuyer's credit and legalizing pot, but her campaign was mainly centered on economic opportunity for the middle class. She also committed wholeheartedly to the most right-wing polices of the Biden administration, like arming Israel and cracking down on the border. But worst of all, she made bipartisanship and Republican consensus a huge part of her campaign, promising to add Republicans to her cabinet , campaigning with Liz Cheney, and even praising Dick Fucking Cheney.

TL;DR, Biden campaigned like Obama in 2008, Harris Campaigned like Hillary in 2016. And the results were the same.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I bet a lot of people saw this as Hillary all over again

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I sure did. I was genuinely hopeful when Biden stepped down, and when they announced Walz, I actually got excited. Then they started to try and reach moderate Republicans more and more, and I slowly realized they were doing it again. I felt like I was going insane watching them repeat the strategy that caused them to lose to the same guy in 2016.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Harris hired a lot of Clinton’s advisors.

We really need to purge the democratic advisors of their jobs if the dems ever wanna win again. They suck.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Silver lining, Trump may actually lock them up.

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