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WaPo / EJ Dionne: Opinion - Did you miss the Trump surge? So did I. What can we learn?
WaPo / EJ Dionne - (archived: https://archive.ph/REQYB ) Opinion - Did you miss the Trump surge? So did I. What can we learn?
The reasons Vice President Kamala Harris lost were all in plain sight.
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
November 7, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. EST
There’s a style of political autopsy designed mostly to demonstrate the genius of the pathologist: Dear candidate, if you had followed my advice, you would have won in a landslide.
There can be insight even in such self-involved efforts, but the shock of former president Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and the excruciating costs it might impose on our republic have inspired me to ask a different question: Why did I get it so wrong?
I genuinely believed Harris would win and that she had ignited a movement among women around not only reproductive rights but also to oppose the open misogyny of the Trump-Vance ticket. I also thought voters would appreciate the contrast between Harris’s unifying outreach as she closed her campaign and Trump’s angry endgame couched in violent language against his political opponents.
Yes, you could say I misjudged the national mood. I try to comfort myself by ascribing this to faith in my fellow citizens, whom I never expected to entrust the White House to someone with so little respect for our liberties and basic decency.
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The reasons Vice President Kamala Harris lost were all in plain sight.
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
November 7, 2024 at 5:17 p.m. EST
There’s a style of political autopsy designed mostly to demonstrate the genius of the pathologist: Dear candidate, if you had followed my advice, you would have won in a landslide.
There can be insight even in such self-involved efforts, but the shock of former president Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and the excruciating costs it might impose on our republic have inspired me to ask a different question: Why did I get it so wrong?
I genuinely believed Harris would win and that she had ignited a movement among women around not only reproductive rights but also to oppose the open misogyny of the Trump-Vance ticket. I also thought voters would appreciate the contrast between Harris’s unifying outreach as she closed her campaign and Trump’s angry endgame couched in violent language against his political opponents.
Yes, you could say I misjudged the national mood. I try to comfort myself by ascribing this to faith in my fellow citizens, whom I never expected to entrust the White House to someone with so little respect for our liberties and basic decency.
/snip
Laurence Tribe ⚖️
“I genuinely believed Harris would win and that she had ignited a movement among women to oppose not only the rollback of reproductive rights but also the misogyny of the Trump-Vance ticket.” I was wrong. But the work must go on. Giving up isn’t an option
8:23 AM · Nov 8, 2024
“I genuinely believed Harris would win and that she had ignited a movement among women to oppose not only the rollback of reproductive rights but also the misogyny of the Trump-Vance ticket.” I was wrong. But the work must go on. Giving up isn’t an option
8:23 AM · Nov 8, 2024
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