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Some takeaways: The two biggest issues, across the board, were inflation and the border crisis.
Dems should have done better on both fronts.
Yes, some inflation was inevitable post COVID, but Biden administration kept the burner high with more spending. And even after all that spending, he wanted to spend $3.5T more on things like child tax credits and tax cuts for blue state rich.
And Dems support things like sanctuary cities and very generous interpretation of asylum. During the Summer 2019 primary debates, the candidates were competing who would be more open to mass migration through the southern border.
Most Democrats promise to decriminalize border crossings during 2020 debate
The third was the cultural issues. "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you". Admittedly, a pithy slogan.
The "free sex changes for inmates" is part of her 2019 campaign, a disastrous campaign that she was unable to live down.
Also notable that Gaza was a low-priority issue across the board.
So the biggest issue for the swing voters that went for Trump was "Kamala Harris was more focused on cultural issues like transgender issues more than helping the middle class." Those anti trans commercials the Trump campaign put out worked.
I have said that before. Gay rights started enjoying majority support when people realized that gays were peolpe like you and I (and not just guys in assless chaps on Folsom Street), and that say Pete Buttigieg marrying Chasten neither breaks their arm nor picks their pocket.
I think trans people need something like that. More moderation.
Instead trans activists want to cancel everybody who does not embrace their agenda 100%. Everybody should have to declare their pronouns. Ask people their preferred pronouns daily (since, like clothes, they can change them based on mood). People should be able to claim to be non-binary or trans and demand preferred pronoun use even if they are biological gender presenting (i.e. just them saying so is enough). Deadnaming is an unpardonable sin. Transitioning biological males should compete in women's sports where they dominate as hard as Kramer was dominating his dojo. Most people rightly balk at that. I am generally supportive of trans people, but I think these activists push it too far.
Another thing about trans activists I have noticed is that they are very active in far-left activism. Take the anti-Cop City movement in Atlanta. Very many self-declared trans and non-binaries among them. I wonder what came first - did they gravitate toward far left politics because they were trans or did they decide on their trans or non-binary identity because it is
au courant in leftist circles that they move in?
