Tony Towner
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There's a general air of superiority on here and in the left leaning world in general in these kind of situations. I'm guilty of it myself, sharing clips of idiots being dumb, but if you don't find a way to connect with them you'll continue to get results like this. The likes of Trump and Farage do, they understand them and how to manipulate them (there's me being superior again). You have to take people being poorer over the last 4 years head on, because ultimately that seems to be the number one driver, despite inflation being worldwide during that period. People don't care about wider economic indicators.People are also allowed to have different opinions and priorities...that's democracy
There's some interesting analysis around about Biden having a blue collar background that enough people could identify with in a way that they couldn't with Clinton or Harris, his gender is also an element of that as 'wrong' as that may be. Obviously there are alternative reasons as to why he couldn't run again, but as I saw someone say (Dominic the Wolves supporting historian whose surname is alluding me) a mixed race, Californian woman isn't going to cut it.
There's lessons to be learned there even if they aren't particularly pleasant ones as there are with 'wokeness'. The number of ads I saw saying the Dems are going to take your money and give it to immigrants and people for sex changes was quite illuminating compared to how British media works. It's overt and ignoring it isn't a strategy, it'll only result in continued defeats.