They are learning this lesson right now.That's not the lesson they will learn from this, for a number of reasons.
1) The Israel Palestine situation is not listed by most voters as the main reason for their vote.
2) If you lose to a team that is explicitly saying the problem is that you were too weak on your support of Israel, then the lesson learned is that "Be more supportive of Israel".
3) The next election will not be about what was going on in 2024, but what is going on in 2026. What the public thinks about the Israel Palestine issue then will be more influential than what the voters opaquely signalled in 2024.
Will some people draw the lesson "We should have been tougher on Israel"?
Sure.
But the idea that this is the obvious conclusion is ludicrous, because "what were the voters actually saying" is rarely clear.
Think about how many people still disagree about what drove voting shifts in 2016 and 2020? (And what lessons the GOP debated learning from losing in 2012 as well?)
Democrats 'freaking out' over Joe Biden's chances in 2024 election
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