Decades of ignoring existing anti-trust laws leading to large conglomerates with monopolistic pricing power?
Unfriendly labor rulings like the time you spend in mandatory employer required security screenings doesn't count as paid time?
Do share with the class what you think is special about Trump running consider he's done it for 4 elections [1] and considered it against Obama (you may remember the whole birther movement).
I like the tone of condescension. Makes it easier.
Lets work with what you said, what caused those issues in turn? If we get stuck at congress being deadlocked, or bad democrat leadership - please see "dems are always wrong". Where the converastion comes to whoever we blame (always the Dems), and then we sit on our hands.
You raised the question of trump running 4 times. I found that instructive, since the first time was in 2000, and it went no where. the other 3 times were the current 3 presedential races.
He was not a political force that decimated the anointed ones of the Republican inner circle. Nor was social tolerance for his behavior this high. What changed.
How did someone, an American who instigated an insurrection, A felon, A person who said he will grab women by the pussy - not only unsinkable in politics, but was able to tell everyone what Harris' campaign was?
Trump wanted to build a wall across a border. This wasn't a president in some banana republic.
This was in America. And this was tolerable, if not welcome.
Over an over again, we use normal measures (other candidate should message better), as if Trump is NORMAL.
That if someone else did a better job he would lose.
Its the other way round - America had a problem when he got to the ballot box, and did that twice.
I went over many assumptions after the elections, to understand what I had missed. But things changed when I asked a different question.
Its not a question of how Harris lost. Its a question of how Trump ran in the first place.
With that change, things clicked into place.