Why We (The Democrats) Got It So Wrong

november 15, 2024

Let me ask you a few questions:

If the Democrats nominated a woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among female voters than the guy who ran in her place four years before?

If the Democrats nominated a Black woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among Black voters than the white candidate who ran in her place four years before?

If the Republicans nominated a guy who ran on mass deportation and consistently said horrible things about Latino immigrants, would you expect him to do worse among Latino voters over time?

If the Democrats nominated a vibrant Black woman who was the subject of a million brat memes, would you expect her to do better among young voters than the old white guy who ran before her?

If you said yes to any of these questions, as I would have a month ago, you have some major rethinking to do, because all of these expectations were wrong.

David Brooks New York Times 14 November 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opinion/identity-groups-politics.html

British lawyer and writer David Allen Green concludes:

“There is no point, in and of itself, showing a candidate to be a liar, fraudster, insurrectionist and/or [arguably] a fascist if people do not actually care if that candidate is a liar, fraudster, insurrectionist and/or a fascist.”

Simon Kuper Financial Times14 November 2024

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/11/we-liberals-believed-in-parliamentary.html

USA:s invånare blir allt fattigare

Amerikanska löner har, sedan 1970-talet, fallit, enligt siffror från den regionala amerikanska centralbanken i St. Louis.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881900Q

Sedan millennieskiftet har de faktiskt bara ökat med 8 procent, att jämföra med över 50 procent i Sverige.

Johan Carlström SvD 15 november 2024

https://www.svd.se/a/1MrpoB/forskare-usa-s-invanare-blir-allt-fattigare-och-kortare

RE: 50 procent låter mycket

Här siffror från Ekonomifakta

Real löneutveckling i Sverige

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