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Ok...
Weird this hasn't come up before for you.
But different people have different standards.
For Republican voters, it's usually just the letter by someone's name.
Dem voters have always had higher standards than Republican voters.
Because the entire point of a candidates campaign is to get votes. And Kamala and her campaign couldn't even beat fucking trump.
For all those reasons you just listed he's terrible, Kamala still couldn't beat him.
What metric do you think a candidate and their campaign should be judged by except number of votes?
Bonus points:
Why don't you think a shit tier opponent wouldnt make it easier? And how can a candidate who can't beat trump not be considered "garbage"?
People insisting "no, Kamala Harris was the better candidate!" Are exactly the people this meme are calling out.
Clearly she wasn't. That doesn't mean she was a worse human being than Trump. That's a hard standard to beat. But she was a worse candidate because she lost the election to him, which is the one thing you need to do in order to be the better candidate.
If I had a 95 meter head start on Usain bolt in the 100m, I could probably beat him. That doesn't make me a better runner.
Do you think Trump was unbeatable?
Nah, but he had some serious advantages. Dems would do better to talk about why voters gave him preference on things like the economy. And of course, voters would do better to vote their self-interest
Dems should do better to talk about why they didn't focus on the economy, when that's what the electorate wanted them to focus on. It's not their job to tell the electorate what's more important to them.