[bigolkevin]

The news articles, the protests and marches, the op eds, the videos, the comments? Yes, there has been lots of outrage across every medium.

And are you really surprised by that shift? Many in this country are suffering, and bought in to Obama's "HOPE" and "CHANGE" and got next to nothing for it. In this election Harris tried to sell herself as simply "Biden but younger" instead of presenting transformative ideas to help people - and in a choice between continued suffering or the promise of something better of course many will choose the potential for something better - even if the person presenting it is a deplorable con man.

And yes, I will absolutely call out the so-called Left in this country for doing too little, for being hypocrites, for fighting for the status quo rather than for their constituents. Sure, Republicans are worse, but Democrats keep handing them free elections by being utterly tepid.

And, for the record, "the people who keep voting for the systems causing common folks to suffer" includes anyone voting for Democrats too.

[krapp]

>The news articles, the protests and marches, the op eds, the videos, the comments? Yes, there has been lots of outrage across every medium.

From the left, yes. Nary a peep from the right. A trickle compared to a torrent. Let's not pretend there was any sort of significant backlash against Trump on that side. If they really wanted Trump gone they could have gotten rid of him.

>and in a choice between continued suffering or the promise of something better of course many will choose the potential for something better - even if the person presenting it is a deplorable con man.

Except the people who voted for the deplorable con man were never going to vote for Harris, or Biden, or any Democrat regardless of what they offered, ever.

I think your criticisms of the Democrats are spot on, but I am curious what you think a Democratic Party platform that Trumpists would have accepted in 2024 would actually look like.

Also you can say "Republicans are worse" but you're in here implying the anger of the right and the choices they've made are perfectly justified as a response to the left, but you aren't willing to extend the same sympathy to the left. You're calling the left racist for taking some schadenfreude (which is weird given that Trump voters are almost exclusively white) when the right has literally run on schadenfreude and racism for a decade.

Trump voters are not automatons. They are (presumably) adults, with agency and free will (whatever that is) and are morally and ethically responsible for the decisions they make and the consequences of their actions. Were they lied to? Yes. Populism is, at its core, a deceitful and manipulative ideology. That doesn't mean they get let off the hook, they can get just as much as they give.