They didn’t offer any meaningful change at a time when voters were upset with the status quo, therefore the voters chose a fascist who was offering something rather than nothing.

Doesn’t make it a smart fucking choice. If anything, context makes it stupider.

At the end of the day, we lost. And we have to talk about why we lost if we want to learn any lessons next time.

And unfortunately, ‘policy wasn’t left enough’ isn’t the answer.

Dem policy should move leftward, mind you. But not because it’ll win us votes. Policy is of marginal importance to everyone save a handful of terminally educated political junkies like us. Dem policy should move leftward because left policy will be better for the country and move the country itself left in the long-term.

Elections, though? We have to win those using different criteria than “What’s good for the country.”

Or at least, we did. God knows if we’ll have meaningful elections again at this point.