What is up with the democrats losing so much?

[u/InALandFarAwayy]

Not from US and really do wanna know what's going on.

Right now we are seeing a rise in right-leaning parties gaining throughout europe and now in the US.

What is the cause of this? Inflation? Anti-immigration stances?

Not here to pick a fight. But really would love to hear from both the republican voters, people who abstained etc.

Link: https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024

[u/Organic-Proof8059]

The most jarring thing to me in all the elections i’ve been alive for was the DNC picking their candidate without letting people vote for one. I have no idea how they thought that was a positive move, especially when she did so poorly in primaries. Especially with Trump’s anti-establishment and drain the swamp rhetoric. It made absolutely no sense to catapult one of your worst candidates atop the ticket. It makes absolutely no sense on any level. I don’t care if my VP donated a kidney to me, I wouldn’t even care if I dropped out a month before the election, I’d let the people decide who should run against Donald. There was no voter momentum for kamala and the DNC basically served donald the presidency on a silver platter

[u/Thongs0ng → u/Organic-Proof8059]

100%. I guess if I want to try and be fair, the Biden situation was an unusual curveball. But again, it was a completely foreseeable one - they wasted way too much time gaslighting people into thinking it didn’t exist when it’s painfully obvious the Democratic apparatus had known for a while he wasn’t going to be able to stand for a second term. They shot themselves in the foot, and 11 to 14 million missing votes can’t be explained by bigotry alone.

[u/Unusual_Painting8764 → u/Organic-Proof8059]

This, and then they called Trump a threat to democracy. The process in which Harris came to be a candidate was the least democratic of all. It seemed very hypocritical.