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They did try to win. They just didn't try to win the way YOU wanted them to. Strategically speaking, going for centrists was the right move, even if you were a progressive candidate. They assumed that they already had the left in the bag, and we're trying to target independent and centrist votes. Nobody would have thought that the left would just....let Trump win because of some bullshit purity politics. But hey, now that the left has let a fascist into power, we won't have to worry about voting anymore. Super smart power move progressives. A+. You played yourselves.
"our strategy was correct, it's reality that was wrong."
27% of the US voting base is Democrat. 43% is centrist.
Do you lean hard to progressive politics and abandon independents or do you try and capture centrists and hope that your voting base understands that the opponent is a literal fascist?
You. Lost.
Your strategy objectively was wrong.
Didn't really answer the question....but okay.
Hindsight is 20/20.
If we run a full progressive candidate we will also for sure lose. But at least we'll all feel warm and fuzzy inside that we picked a wonderful candidate. It's a knife edge, if we want to only pander to our base, we will for sure lose support of many centrists.
You were told this before the election, repeatedly. You can invoke hindsight
The last time the Democrats tried, they won a super majority