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Three very difficult truths on election post-mortems 1. "Dems could have won if they'd only done X." Everyone has a version of this. But in virtually every case they *did* do X, often to an unprecedented degree. Economic populism, working class wages, abortion. $200m ads on the economy. If you're asking why she didn't message on X, the answer is she did, relentlessly; it just didn't hit your blue bubble twitter feed. 2. It actually did work! In states where both Harris and Trump campaigned heavily, she outperformed national trends by D+3 to D+5. That's huge! 3. But was overwhelmed by an R+6 swing that blew through every state and demo. This is consistent with the anti-incumbent swing hitting every developed democracy on earth. Tactical campaign choices cannot explain a global trend. And it is extremely difficult to imagine a campaign that could've overcome it.