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Here. Right here is when it all went wrong.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113

I'll admit I did not know that the effect on Black turnout would be this bad. I knew it was bad, but I significantly underestimated how bad. I didn't pay attention to it. I didn't know that the backslide in support continued.

Another miscalculation I made: I was pretty sure that the majority of white women would vote for Trump, and that white women's turnout would be high, but I did not anticipate how high. They showed up.

@mekkaokereke I remember when you posted the original toot and being very confused. "Don't we want a functioning two party system? Why would trying to establish a healthy bipartisan system suppress voter turnout?"

It wasn't until i read the replies and your follow up comments in this thread that i "got it". There's nothing healthy about bipartisanship in America right now. So thanks for that.

mekka okereke :verified:

@drmorr

Yep.

And the same folks who acknowledge that Dems have a "big tent" with a lot of opposing viewpoints and different priorities, sometimes say that we need a strong GOP, to provide opposing viewpoints and different priorities? 🙂🙃

No. We don't.

The Dems are in absolutely no danger of speaking with one one voice, or becoming a monolith. And there are parties to the left of the Democrats.

The GOP needs a reset to finally rid itself of the racism and transphobia.

@mekkaokereke

> The GOP needs a reset to finally rid itself of the racism and transphobia.

Dems too, if we're being honest. I am always shocked at the number of times someone in my (white, wealthy) neighborhood professes support for progressives and then in the same breath make the most callously racist remarks about the Black/homeless/incarcerated people in our own communities. Like, can you not even hear yourselves right now???

@mekkaokereke I probably shouldn't be shocked about this, but, well, here we are.