r/TrueReddit • u/Maxwellsdemon17 • 12d ago

Politics Political Investments. > Thomas Ferguson in conversation with Tim Barker and Andrew Yamakawa Elrod

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/thomas-ferguson/
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u/Maxwellsdemon17 12d ago

"I do think there were ways the Democrats could have won the election. Their situation was rather like Truman’s in 1948, when he had presided over high inflation and was down in the polls. He solved that problem with an assist from a major oil company that came up with money for the famous “whistle stop” train campaign that took him around the country to meet with Americans. Now, he didn’t repudiate himself—he ran against the “do nothing” Republicans in Congress and narrowly won. Biden’s Hindenburg strategy, of course, made that kind of strategy difficult, since it was premised on pulling in as much of big business as possible against Trump and attracting as many big donors as possible—including Republicans. Harris and Walz persisted in that path, and even more aggressively courted elusive moderate Republicans, but they could have drawn much clearer lines on Social Security, which they barely mentioned, medical care and public health, or even—imagine this—strongly defended Lina Khan and her impact on Americans instead of parading around with her critics. The campaign could have simply said it would fix the problems already identified in Congressional hearings with health care companies denying medical coverage to policyholders. People are desperate and very angry, as the murder case in Manhattan illustrates, but healthcare all but vanished from the front-page political agenda since the epoch-defining pandemic."