Why'd Harris Lose?

I don't know.

Up until now, I've been doing what everybody else seems to be doing: pick the thing you dislike most about the Dems and attribute the loss to that.

So my explanation has been: their Orwellian totalitarianism / political correctness / Woketarianism.

As is known, after a presidential election the winning party is smug and the losing party is insane. So we can't really look to the Dems for help. They're probably the group least likely to come up with a true hypothesis right now.

   Losers' favorite explanation, regardless of the party: "we didn't get our message out."

   I don't distinctly remember seeing that this time...but, then...they didn't really have a message... Unless you count. "Brat."

Or was it "Joy"?

Hm.

Oh, there was The Republicans are weird...which...true though it is...well...glass houses and all... Everybody everywhere knew that was just an effort to defuse the insult so it was less effective against the ostentatiously weird Harris and Walz (& co.).

Was I am a, how you say, cen-ter-ist ever an official slogan/shtick?

There was I'm really fucking running out of patience with you men...

...black guys, too [glare]

No, wait--it was: Donald Trump is a Nazifascist Hitler...

So, y'know, I guess it may actually have been the "messaging" this time.

"Brat" and "Joy" were the two stupidest and cringiest political slogans of my lifetime. Both of them absolutely off the scale. I can barely stand to type them. She deserved to lose for those slogans alone. I'm not kidding.

The other ones probably reminded people too much of who the Democrats actually are now.

Which is the weirdos.

To put it mildly.

But anyhoo, we don't know whether there's any single most salient cause for the defeat.

Or I don't anyway.

Eventually the academic / Democrat / media complex will cough up some conjecture. It'll aim largely at denigrating the Pubs and helping out one or more favored Dem factions.

Absolutely, positively, astonishingly terrible candidate(s) will have to figure into most explanations, I'd think.

But anyway: though I've been saying that it was their Woketarianism that did it...and though that has to have played some role...all I really know is that Woketarianism is insane, and they are its champions, and people are finally realizing that and saying it out loud. And they lost. But obviously the causal hypothesis goes beyond those facts.