Oh it was so much more beyond that. And it's seems like , by looking at the dv ratios, they've forgotten their shame.

If you made any obvious criticisms of the campaign, you were dv'd to oblivion. If you pushed that Biden should be removed as candidate, you were dv'd to oblivion. If you were promoting the idea that the party needed to pivot on Gaza or they'd lose the election, dv'd to oblivion. That Bidens mid summer attempt at the worst border bill we'd ever seen would lose him the election. And on and on and on... I mean they litterally bullied people even mentioning third parties in a way that I think should have gotten them banned permanently from Lemmy. And how many votes did all of the third parties get? not even enough to make a difference to a fart in the wind.

Every single issue that could have turned the tide for the Dems this last election cycle, the same people downvoting in this thread, they downvoted those same things in the run up to the election.

AND THAT is why they are blue MAGA. This is a team sport for them. They can not withstand criticism of what they've come to associate their identity with. It's always that you just need to get in behind the party, no matter how bad the parties ideas are. And the biggest issue these people don't recognize: if you are downvoting in this thread **you are why the Dems lost **

The Dems were running bad candidates and worse strategies. They needed to be corrected. And defending them from that critique, preventing them from hearing it by keeping out of the mainstream for as long as they were able to, that is what lost the election. There was ample time to course correct in Summer of 24. But blue MAGA insisted you have to run the incubamant, in spite of the fact they were polling at some of the lowest levels in history and had been since almost 23.

And we had a repreive from these idiots for about 12 months while they hid from the shame of the damage they did. Now they're back and they seem to think they've got the right of it again.