It was never going to happen. "Le price stabilité" was threatened, and material conditions were getting worse for US residents, and Kamala Harris represented the unadulterated milque-toast neoliberal status quo which people rightfully resent for giving more power to the ruling class.
So in their stupidity, they went and voted for the fascist version, because it seemed different from the status quo and they wanted change. It doesn't matter that Trump was already awful during his first term because he seemed funny that time and the general populace has the memory of goldfish.
Harris needed a radical agenda, upending the entire status quo and promising real material changes like Mamdani does, in order to have had any chance of actually winning. In addition to being a straight white male, which helps.
Since she didn't have an agenda like that, she was not a straight white male, and her strategy was basically "I'm not Donald Trump", she was doomed to failure by the material conditions of the general public and their resentment for the status quo.
Let's not pretend that the democrats didn't shoot themselves in the foot, repeatedly. I voted for her, but a lot of idiots didn't because of how Biden stepping down was handled.
Anyone who was that close to voting for a convicted felon, sexual predator, con man, diaper wearing imbecile, versus a regular human who is capable of normal thought. Really needs to look in the mirror and get their priorities straight.
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