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Blaming voters is such a weak stance, its always just comes down to personal grievances. Your vote blaming logic could be applied to anyone.
This is what you voted for, Barack Obama voters! His tepid implementation of DACA left this poor girl with very few legal protections!
This is what you voted for, Joe Biden voters! Biden could have defunded ICE, instead he gave them billions!
This is what you voted for, Chester A Arthur voters! Your implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was inevitably going to lead to this!
I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for.
Yea and I'm informing Chester A Arthur voters about what they voted for lol
The difference is that Arthur voters have more blame on their shoulders, because they actually changed the outcome of an election, unlike "protest non-voters".
I'm certain that I saw an article on here recently saying the exact opposite of this, but I can't find it. I'll look through my comment history maybe to try to find it
Edit: found it
https://newrepublic.com/article/204271/why-democrats-lost-2024-election-trump-way-to-win-report
Oops, looks like you're gonna have to start lying to yourself if you want to continue pretending that you're not partially responsible for what is happening in this country right now
Your TNR article correctly asserts that Dems lost because they failed to motivate their base. It is explaining how the Democratic Party's policies on the economy and immigration had a strong negative effect on voter turnout.
It says nothing about protest voters, and only a passing mention of Gaza. I was under the impression that "protest non voters" referred explicitly to those voters who concerned themselves with the genocide in Palestine.
If you expand the scope of "protest non voters" to include those who didn't vote due to the economy or immigration policy, then I agree with you completely.
Yes, that's the reason people give for why they didn't vote. No shit.
Still their fault.