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'The left' liberals didn't vote for Harris. I mean the left didn't either, but the reason Harris lost was because of standard ol liberals choosing not to vote for brown George w bush.
From what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.
AND many Democrats refused to vote.
When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.
sigh .. yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change..
Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I'd read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.
Welcome to the for-profit-only "reality" we live-in..
( I'm going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.
Without knowing history, it isn't possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!
This ISN'T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )
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Not that it is journalism, but I've noticed comment sections have mostly disappeared, as well. Sure, papers can claim it costs money and they have to moderate, etc....but I found it very interesting, for example, that just before the 2024 election, The Denver Post decided to close its comment section for good.
I've seen it in various smaller papers, too.
Interesting..
I wonder what fraction of the motivation for that disappearing-of-comment-sections was done because of being fed-up with bots,
vs what fraction of it was motivated by wanting no-diversity-of-perspective..?
Thank you for this informing..
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That was a 7 month old comment you bizarre spectacle-wannabe.
Avoided going through my notifications until now..
was fixing things, is all..
sorry for the delay.
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I would imagine it was a bit of both? They went through several systems that managed comments over the years. I think they figured they could bend the knee in advance to donvict's second failed term and save money.
DP kept cutting more and more. I'm sure trying moderate things and not come under scrutiny from the magameatheads who are the world's biggest babies and tattletales was starting to become a line item that was just too much for the corporate bean counters.
I think DP's take was that you could still send in letters, LOL.
These people don't really seem to understand the point of the 'net for most people - and that is that it is not meant to only be a broadcast medium, but also peer to peer.
Sending in letters to be heavily edited and/or rejected outright? Hell, we had that for an extremely long time. I suspect DP's readership took a huge nosedive after they cut comments.