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Yes, I agree.
It sounds like you missed the point of my message. Biden was awful on Israel. My point was that because Israel could become a liability for him, it got blown up on social media in a way where the legitimate and impassioned protest movement became a huge electoral issue for him. And, in the corners of social media where you hang out, it's all over social media, always in the face of everyone whose vote it might impact, and front of mind for you, every day, in a way that I'm guessing Occupy Wall Street or the protests against the Uyghur genocide were not. And then, when it was Kamala Harris, everything he'd done translated seamlessly over to her, with almost no loss of impact.
There's a whole other population of people for which inflation is that issue. They see it constantly on social media, it's always linked to ~~Biden~~ Kamala, and Trump is so much better. Trump will fix it. That one has a lot less validity than the Gaza criticism, but it has a lot broader appeal. And so, with that in their ear every day, it's not surprising that a lot of them didn't show up for Kamal Harris, or got suckered into voting for Trump thinking somehow that he'll fix it.
Left-wing social media could have blown up Biden's absolutely historic actions on climate change into the same magnitude of issue as Gaza was, and blown it up in everyone's ear all day every day, and heard about what a catastrophe Trump will be, but they didn't. Why is that? Because no one's paying for that message to get out there.
I'm not saying the Gaza protestors, or their cause, are fake. I'm saying that the way things got covered and represented on social media was artificially generated to hurt ~~Biden~~ Kamala, and it worked.