Don’t You Dare Blame Harris’s Loss on the Left

Don't You Dare Blame Kamala Harris’s loss on the excesses of the Left , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Many of the warnings that we made in the months leading up to the election turned out to be prescient.

He says the real story is not some unassailable wave of conservative enthusiasm, but the total cratering of Democratic support from Joe Biden's 2020 presidential ticket to Kamala 's over the last four years .

The Democrats lost in the Senate , but four Democrats actually won in swing states that Harris lost.

Frida Ghitis : Kamala Harris didn't run on “gender fluidity” or defunding the police, she says.

She says she barely discussed transgender people at all in the Democratic platform.

Ghitis says she's wrong about the electoral effects of anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Julian Zelizer : Hillary Clinton ran hard to the right on immigration, echoing Trump ’s border policy from four years ago .

He says she didn’t “kowtow” to the left as Reines suggested, and it did her no favors.

Zelizer says voters clearly care if the president delivered them benefits after the election.