re: Van Jones on Trump win: ‘It turned out we were the idiots’

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with audiences predominantly made up of young men, a voting bloc the GOP candidate aggressively courted.

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Imagine ignoring this group of people or calling them stupid like Kamala did? Never ignore any demographic.

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It turned out we were the idiots,” he continued. “We woke up in a body bag because while we were knocking on doors, they were making these phones into 24-hour-a-day political weapons for themselves.”

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I like how all of the people in the MSM have now quit even pretending that they are "neutral." All Tuesday night on all the channels they were using We/us vs Them when talking about Dems vs Reps.

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“It turned out we were the idiots,” he continued. “We woke up in a body bag because while we were knocking on doors, they were making these phones into 24-hour-a-day political weapons for themselves.” Trump won handily Tuesday, sweeping the seven swing states after weeks of spurning interviews with mainstream media outlets. He opted instead for appearances on popular podcasts and internet programs — including Joe Rogan’s and other shows with audiences predominantly made up of young men, a voting bloc the GOP candidate aggressively courted.

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Notice the sleight of hand here:

The Dems didn't lose by prioritizing door-knocking over alternative media, they lost by prioritizing mainstream media over alternative media.

Of course can't say that b/c he's MSM, but that's what happened. People are sick of the MSM and realize it's just lies.

As far as door to door goes, the Republicans had a better ground game than Dems, if anything. Scott Pressler did work.

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very simple,,,,,the fact that Kamala was very, very stupid did not help

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The main thing she ran on was abortion law changes, and many states screwed her by having abortion propositions on the ballot to vote on. Women could make a stand by voting on the abortion propositions and not have to vote for a moron woman candidate to make their stand..

The podcasts were a big deal also...Trump and JD killed it on those interviews and came off as being really likeable.

If you want to see a much more in depth analysis of this, the newest episode of Pod Saves America actually is pretty honest about the DEM shortcomings in hindsight.

They do get into the new media landscape a bit and say what I said a few days ago, that the DEMs basically have nobody who can go onto a Rogan or Theo Von or Schultz and talk like a normal person for 2-3 hours. They're too polished and political and in this populist shift in American politics, it's not going to work outside of certain small bubbles.

The Democrat candidate does not matter - if their messaging and policies are not what the country wants to hear

Chris Matthews had it right. He asked, "Why did this administration leave the border open? Who wanted that? Who were they playing to when they allowed millions of people to come across the border?"

Democrats lost the election because they were playing defense over their policies on the border, crime, and the economy. Those are the key issues that decide elections, and the Democrats decided to create a new issue: Democracy. They didn't even define it. They just said that Trump was a threat to Democracy. The Democrats probably won on abortion, but not by enough to offset those key issues.

Which should tell him now more than ever that mainstream media is dead. Social media and internet journalism is the new frontier.

i have watched it, and while i think favreau is ok, he's so far up the obama bubble that he can barely see past the cracks in the walls.

i saw them on kimmel as well, they talked about the almighty ground game in nevada which didn't mean much to them for harris, but might have done them favors for rosen.

they agree that the right was much more effective in spreading a message, any message...by podcast and people's most accessible way to digest information...their phones.

I'm afraid I'll wake up a mfin' slave.

Jesus wept.