The defeat of Kamala Harris in the presidential election had a dual effect on her supporters, including those in DC tied to the issue-based groups that support the party.
On one hand, it effected a kind of malaise across a city now resigned to the return of Donald Trump and the likely erasure of many Democratic policy gains — meager as they were — made under four years of Biden’s presidency. Feelings of anger and despair are palpable as various factions of the party issue their respective postmortems, coming up with differing reasons for the party’s losses.
