For a lot of shit and that is what lost it for us. I am not saying it was justified.

..... will only bring toxic fish to the surface,... but these toxic fish still will not vote blue. So we are wasting our time.

The non-voters are not so deeply implanted or stubborn so they refuse to vote blue.

After Team trDUMP gets done - few people will think the Dems and the ReThugs are exactly the same - little to no difference. Winning over the non-voters should not be like pulling teeth or giving root canals.

We still need candidates with fire in the belly politicians. Milquetoast political candidates got us into this mess. Our approval polling indicates extreme dissatisfaction with the Demo party.

The fish will be jumping into the boat before long.

People who don't like Trump or the GOP don't OWE the Democratic Party anything. There's a difference between being a "big D" Democrat and a "small d" democrat. If the Party wants "small d" votes, it has to earn them. In 2024 it didn't. If you recall, Biden promised a vaguely progressive agenda in 2020 (free community college, minimum wage increase, child tax credit, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Medicare expansion into dental, etc.), only to see such things never so much as introduced because of opposition from "moderate" Democratic Party members in the House. If you recall, Democrats had the majority in both Houses, and the Republicans had no say whatsoever. Come 2024, the Harris Campaign's response was to make only the vaguest promises (support for abortion rights without specifics on how, some sort of credit for first-time home buyers and not much else) while instead courting disaffected Republicans (as exemplified by everyone's favorite neocon and coal mining advocate, Liz Cheney). The voters response was to stay home. That was predictable - or should have been. If you want to attract voters to vote FOR you, you need to tell them precisely how you're going to make things better. The Harris Campaign didn't; they seemed to expect that everyone would vote AGAINST Trump. It didn't work. I seem to remember the 2016 election being much the same with a similar result.

Actions since the election by the Party's establishment politicians from Schumer to Nadler to Cortez Masto to Cuellar have demonstrated to anyone paying attention (which is probably some fraction of that 90 million) that nothing has changed. Moreover, the reaction of the Party establishment to David Hogg's suggestion that dead wood be replaced have been largely hostile, suggesting that the establishment thinks what "we" need is more of the same.

Given where the Party is right now, and I can't see the establishment politicians giving up, I wouldn't expect the number of non-voters to go down anytime soon, nor would I expect much support from the non-voting citizenry, because the Democratic Party is (for the most part) not earning anything. I'd expect the numbers of non-voters to grow.

Feeling powerless? We need a campaign that will create the belief that every persons' participation is crucial and matters.

They don’t understand that every humane program, from cradle to grave — Snap, Head Start, School lunches, Pell grants, Fanny Mae,, Civil and Voting rights, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security —- and lots more, exists because of the hard work of Democrats. It’s an accomplishment we’ve kept these programs alive to now without their help. So sad they couldn’t be bothered.

Trump's popular vote margin was relatively small. 1.4%. David Shor the Democratic polster, who is no slouch with numbers figures if everyone had voted Trump's margin would have been 4.8%.

We did very well in the 2022 mid terms a low turnout election.

Of course I'd not predict anything in 26 or 28. I would think Trump will have pissed off huge numbers of people, and we should do very well in 26, but this electorate remains very hard to predict.