{"id":29964,"date":"2024-11-09T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=29964"},"modified":"2024-11-09T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T13:56:24","slug":"what-were-the-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=29964","title":{"rendered":"What were the mistakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNancy Pelosi. Source: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n

The punditry, like vultures, are feasting on the battlefield after the election. It’s not about lessons learned. It’s about their pre-existing agendas — inflicting damage on Democrats if they’re right-wingers, pulling the Democratic Party ever more to the right, if they’re centrists. There are even a few on the left who say that a Bernie Sanders platform would have won this election.<\/p>\n

But when Nancy Pelosi speaks, I listen. She has no agenda other than winning. The Guardian has this today: “Nancy Pelosi says Biden\u2019s delay in exiting race blew Democrats\u2019 chances<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Why would Nancy Pelosi zing her own party, in public? I think it’s because she wants to send a clear message to whoever was protecting Biden, with a warning to any future factions within the Democratic Party whose agenda is pushing a particular candidate rather than winning an election.<\/p>\n

This has happened before, in 2016, when a strong faction within the DNC was determined to have Hillary Clinton, no matter what. And now it has happened again, with Biden. Both times, we lost.<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi, please please stay with us through the 2028 election. And if something like this happens again, please tell us way, way before the election, not after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Pelosi. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The punditry, like vultures, are feasting on the battlefield after the election. It’s not about lessons learned. It’s about their pre-existing agendas — inflicting damage on Democrats if they’re right-wingers, pulling the Democratic Party ever more to the right, if they’re centrists. There are even a few on the left … Continue reading “What were the mistakes?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29970,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29964\/revisions\/29970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}