Should be too obvious for words

While I’m at it… Many commentators are calling Trump’s victory a defeat for liberalism or technocracy or other isms or ologies.

It’s simpler. The Dems chose to lose. In 2016 and 2024 they COULD have run a candidate with a PROVEN record of attracting working class voters. Bernie Sanders was MASSIVELY popular. His rallies drew standing-room crowds, while Hillary’s appearances had a hundred paid Dem operatives and no spontaneous audience at all. Bernie spoke directly and honestly to working-class people, and had a real record of supporting laws and regulations to help workers and restrain billionaires. Instead the party CHEATED Bernie out of his victory and ran guaranteed losers acceptable to the billionaires.

Businesses, at least before the modern Share Value era, rarely made such stupid mistakes. Carmakers figured out quickly when a new model wasn’t selling (eg Edsel or ’62 Dodge), and worked hard to develop a quick replacement. Grocery stores apply this principle constantly. If people aren’t buying Bud Light, the store takes Bud off the shelves and stocks more Miller. Offer what the customer wants. So obvious it shouldn’t even need to be stated as a rule.

If you want to call this a defeat for one group, maybe you could treat it as a defeat for the specific billionaires who chose to bet on the D horse, and a victory for the R-betting billionaires. But those aren’t permanent groups, since some previously loyal D bettors (eg Elon) shifted their bet to the R horse this time.