Tony West costed Kamala Harris the election

If folks can remember, Harris and Walz were talking the soaring prices and how corporate greed was behind that. That is a very popular talking point among voters. But then Tony West, Kamala's brother-in-law and formerly Uber's top lawyer, told the campaign to quiet down on that rhetoric. Squashing talks about the economy. So the campaign and the Dems didn't talk about the economy much leading up to the election. Or said, "The economy is fine. Inflation is down. Look at the numbers." That didn't translate well to the general voters. That didn't match up with their live experiences of higher prices.

People just wanted change for those reasons, according to many podcasts I have listen to. So Tony West telling the campaign to stop talking about the economy might have kill the campaign for Harris. And this has been the standard thing for the Democrats to ignore the hardship that regular working folks goes through. And that might have cost them this election.

Yes Trump will make the economy worse and prices will rise faster under him. But at least Trump talked about the economy and lied about what he will do. So some folks believe him because he was at least talking about the economy. Something the Democrats didn't do. And Democrats often seed the ground to the Thuglicans on this and many issues. And it is so frustrating.

Will the Democrats continue to listen their pundits, insiders, and advisers like Tony West, who obliviously are more looking out for their big corporates friends instead of regular folks? Will finally adopt actually popularly economic policies instead of listening to their donor class? I highly doubt it. So long as folks like Tony West still has power over the Democrats campaigns, I fear they will lose more often than they will win.

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