I don't make a lot of posts here, but I think there's something critical right now to acknowledge...we have to learn to take a loss, and learn from it.
There's this weird tendency to say, "oh, we didn't win the NYC/NJ governor's race because sometimes you have to show them".
What were seeing now is that younger people 18-30 voted disproportionately for Democrats in every single election this cycle. Not just the ones you followed.
The one big common theme was the economy, which we should own but aren't. Hiring is down for people entering the market, and affordability for housing or groceries (outside of eggs) is going the wrong way.
Don't ignore what people are trying to tell you. We have a whole year to change these facts. But please don't just ignore it out of pride.
I agree. Great points on not acknowledging losses and people not feeling heard. I'm seeing that happen about the economy. I try to defend with how the deportations are going but in the end I feel like I'm losing them because the truth is the economy is terrible right now. My wife just today said she feels lied to about the economy and the Epstein files. I couldn't defend against that because both have not come to fruition as promised.