This is a headgum podcast.

So the Democratic Party has spent the past couple months arguing about why and how they lost

this election.

Even though they raised and spent more money than any candidate ever, even though they had

the largest army of volunteers ever assembled knocking doors and getting out the vote,

and even though they sent

all of us endless emails and texts, begging us to donate now or they're going to make AOC

walk the plank, they got smoked. According to the strategists and consultants that ran

Kamala's campaign, they did everything they possibly could do to win. So how on earth did they lose?

Well, you know, could be the fact that they never took a stance

on Israel's mass killing of the civilian population in Gaza.

It could be the party's refusal to acknowledge

how working-class Americans are being preyed upon by the wealthy,

and it could be that Kamala spent the entire campaign

parading around a

chainie baby who nobody likes. But, you know, there's also a deeper, hidden reason that Democrats

keep losing that almost no one is talking about. The truth is that spending all that money on ads,

armies of door knockers, and spamming people's phones doesn't actually win

elections.

What does win is real political engagement, and that is something that the Democratic Party

has abandoned.

In fact, so has almost every other liberal group in America.

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