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Sorry, then. I see the "not entitled" phrasing all the time in the context of justifying not voting for the Dems.
I disagree. People can be, and often are, both victims and perpetrators of that same crime.
I mean, the sitting president was a Dem, so they were the party in the power.
The Dems lost for a number of reasons, but the biggest, I would say, are:
Biden choosing to run, and then dropping out. Dropping out was the best decision once it was clear that he was going to lose (something which his campaign, apparently, knew quite early on by internal polling but refused to acknowledge), but choosing the failing run, after implying he would be a one-term president, and then shunting it all to his VP at the last second was fucking ruinous. The resulting campaign was a mess, and there was a significant contingent of low-info voters who were, on election day, confused that Joe Biden wasn't running.
Harris being an empty suit without any ideals or charisma.
The Harris campaign being run by utter lunatics and incompetents.
This is untrue. Some high-ranking Dems have failed to rally around Mamdani like they should, and that is legitimately unacceptable - but the idea that Dems are fighting Mamdani more than they fought Trump is just not in-line with reality. Nor, for that matter, is it the majority of Dems.
Oh, don't worry. I have plenty of contempt to go around. Most of my contempt is towards the most active perpetrators of this fascist insanity, but as you yourself note here, failing to hold perpetrators in contempt reinforces bad behavior - and celebration of sabotage of anti-fascist coalitions is absolutely bad behavior.