cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33812617

The Democratic Party’s image has eroded to its lowest point in more than three decades, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, with voters seeing Republicans as better at handling most issues that decide elections.

The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party—the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    Hard for them to capitalize on something like everyone being pissed about ICE, when the Dems are releasing literal thank you letters to ICE for their work.

    If they wanted to beat Trump, they’d have to not support his policies. And that’s ultimately where Harris failed. It was just the same policies filtered through a PR agency.

    • Chulk@lemmy.ml
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      when the Dems are releasing literal thank you letters to ICE for their work.

      This, for me, was the moment when I went from “man, these people really suck as an opposition party” to “They’re either incredibly incompetent or they’re just straight-up controlled opposition.”

      You can’t oppose Trump while thanking his Gestapo for their service. Fuck that.

      It was just the same policies filtered through a PR agency.

      This is how I’ve felt and haven’t been able to put it into words. Harris could have curb stomped Trump if she had effectively distanced herself from rightwing policy. Her stance on immigration was unforgivable and served to normalize what Trump would eventually do.

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        She was a DA for several different jurisdictions in California for a BIG part of her career before she got onto Biden’s ticket. Her stance on ICE and hardline immigration policy was unsurprising, and the fact that she leaned into consultants urging her to emphasize that is similarly unsurprising. In that regard, she was straight up the wrong candidate.

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          Oh yeah, it was definitely was unsurprising given her record. But it was still unforgiveable.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      They even tried to implement a terrible gop bill while they were in power, and only didn’t do it because gop thought it would be a win for dems if anything passed.

      They’re even blaming minorities for their loses after doing that

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      Same policies? You’re fucking high and stupid. A fucking idiot that takes in the “ThEy’RE All ThE SamE!” bullshit, and repeats it like a moronic parrot.

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    Hmm! As a Democrat Strategist I think it’s because we DONT take ENOUGH money from Billionaires while HELPING Trump enact his Agenda! If we want to Get people BACK to Our Side we need MORE Billionaires and to Help even MORE of Trump’s Agenda through!

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    Damn, you know what they should do to combat this? Keep trying to be centrist and ignore their actual base while trying to get more republicans to vote for them.

    For real though, there’s more than a 4th of the population that doesn’t vote that’d be easier to convince to vote for them than republicans.

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    Yeah well, they’ve proven themselves so incompetent they’re complicit in the fascist police state that the US has finally brought out into the open

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      It’s like watching a very elaborate game of good cop, bad cop.

      But, they will be elected again, soon, to be the good cop that rescues Americans. And will do enough good to setup the working class for more loss during the next bad cop cycle.

      Their superpower is to allow centralists to sleep well half the nights during a decade.

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    This is clearly fake news, actual numbers lower. Didn’t read the article and whatever is cited isn’t low enough