Well...here we are. I know people are going to blame the DNC or whatever but it's a lot more simple than that- a lot of white people, men and and women were not going to vote for not just a woman but a brown woman. A lot of Latinos also don't think a woman can be a leader and let's face it, they don't care at all about people like us and they wanted to be like their white friends so they also voted for Trump.
Then you had this year's version of Bernie Bros: Arab Americans who pouted and stayed home because of the Gaza/Israel war and they wanted to "own the libs" by getting Trump in and take away the only restraint Israel had. Add the whole "your kids are going to be trans" and "your kids are going to get drafted to fight in Ukraine" fears and it was over before it began.
I really don't know what the DNC can do in the future. Maybe not pander to a tiny minority of supporters when the vast majority hate that group? But then we're one of those tiny groups.
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Late 40's Dreamer (Holy Fucking shit I'm almost 50 and still dealing with this), aged out of original DACA and didn't have a chance to apply for extended DACA after Republicans killed it on the vine.