Democrats need to address the "Working Class" problem and get over the "Isms"

[karynnj]

199. You obviously saw a different election than I did

Harris and other leading Democrats DID address economic issues. Harris proposed innovated ways to help people afford houses. Unions and minimum wage were supported, as was help on child care and other needs.

It was the Republicans who ran on xenophobic nativism and transphobia. Their ads likely gave enough people permission to follow their own fears of the others. On the economy, Trump was patently dishonest speaking of all the good things he could give people all paid by tariffs paid by China. The same people who believed the wall would be paid for by Mexicans believed him.

People far smarter than me will be looking at the results. I suspect all of their postmortems will differ. Is it that we did have an effective enough media to reach enough people? Is it just that too many people were better off economically in 2019 if not 2020? If so, could we have explained how part of the blame goes to the policies Trump had? A difficult part of that is that if they were not affected by the SALT change, they saw a small but real gain from the tax cuts. What they likely didn't notice was that the tax cuts increased income inequality and led to greater deficits ... Something known to cause inflation.

I suspect part of the reason the Harris economic ideas did not work was because people agreed with Trump when he argued that Biden/Harris could already have done all those things if they really had wanted to. Obviously ignoring that the first steps were getting the economy out of ditch which they did successfully.