i take him at his word that he wants to win, the interesting thing to me is when his strategy fails — and it has failed, multiple times — he just pretends it was never tried
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This is literally how Trump won both times
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Insanity- doing the same things and expecting something different….
It’s also because very expensive “Dem” political consultants who advise candidates have loyalties to capital rather than any voter constituency.
Gavin Newsom comes to mind.
twist in the wind of public opinion polls.
Hey, a year ago, I was on the "we have to appeal to the center" train. BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK. Why should I be opposed to something different now?
They tend to be conducted by people with a preconceived agenda and attract 2 types of participants: people drawn by the promise of a free lunch and gasbags.
Good designers (effective designers) whose workproduct resonates, either do research or they have great instincts. They don't live in a bubble.
If Dems want to know what voters will respond to, they need to get out of their offices & canvass or go to places where people go & ask questions &
Town halls are great, but are similar to focus groups in that attendees are more highly engaged than the average person, so, pols will not necessarily gain insight into what lands w/ regular or tuned out ppl.
(marketing guy just really loved it, that’s why)
People are looking for leaders, which means (at least a sense of) conviction. I think this is what people like about Trump.
MAYBE BRING THAT IDEA BACK
maga will never convert into lib. They are authoritarian by nature. Their conversion is to the Berniecrat-Communism continuum or nothing at all.
particularly in the face of the research I just saw about how the more dems moderate the more they lose.
The repubs have set the agenda so far to the right that this strategy makes dems the center right party.
Inevitably the country finds itself pulled to the right. It has to stop.
* it was suddenly Harris, nobody's 1st choice, no primary or debate
If Biden announced retirement after '22 midterms, Ds win presidency in '24.
No other zeitgeisty reason exists, IMO
& ESPECIALLY doesn't matter as Harris did not disavow the endorsement, but rather campaigned with his daughter.
Her positions may not have been very close to his - but she implied they WERE.
ANY is alignment.
https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lkdf2d3cdc2i
I tend to think of both of them as running liberal campaigns. I think Biden’s campaign was more moderate than his administration.
I get how people can disagree about this.
Maybe a more ideologically focused campaign would add clarity, maybe not.
Poor Americans looking abused and tired. Terrified of what is happening to them. Desperate to use their voices. Devout in their belief of freedom.
Working class and poor people shouldn’t take political advice from rich people
Thats the problem. Its not a big tent if progressive stances are mapped to extremism by pundit cartographers like him, nor recruited cause matt sees himself as the norm
Just actually be the left wing party and learn how to message.
People largely agree with left wing policies when they are lensed correctly.
WASN'T ME...I DON'T KNOW FROM NOTTIN
VOTE NO ON DESTRUCTIVE BUDGET BILL.
Stop this moderate compromise bullshit
This is time for Democrats to stand up. Chuck Schumer weakness has just given republicans another 10 year tax cut.
I really wish he would stop talking.
But in one direction.
Want to put the tent pole in the middle? Fine.
But expand it on both sides. Not one direction.
Never one direction.
Perhaps Vance will stand, in exchange for Vance pardoning Trump, and anyone who stands against Vance will face the corrupted DOJ.
Ground game and local organizing is 75% of winning elections.
I do think there are issues where what the Dem base or activist groups demand - and what Dem politicians adopt as positions - is way out of step with the public.
The most salient of these is immigration.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-public-health-new-york-health-4ef0c6c5263815a26f8aa17f6ea490ae
You can argue that it was the right thing to do. But that doesn't mean it wasn't politically toxic.
Biden specifically continued this policy bc of people screaming about high border crossings; how did that work out for him politically
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mayorkas-dhs-title-42-immigration-095900696.html
Maybe "unmoored" is unfair. They're unmoored to foundational principles, but they are moored to the ever-shifting Overton window.
And when he opines about this, remember which party had Joe Manchin in office and which party drove Liz Cheney out of office.
& we let them.
Why are Democrats only held to the “be moderate and big tent” rules? Should we recruit abortion banners and DEI hysterics while we’re at it?
I see a tiny flaw here.
The thinking that replacing the Dems would be more useful than just voting out Republicans is what has maintained the status quo for decades.
We need to primary the centrists out of party leadership
That Democrats lost only proves that “adopt moderate, popular, big tent ideas” wasn’t implemented with enough fidelity. The party platform wasn’t quite moderate enough; the tent not quite big enough.
He is NOT Presidential caliber.
We bully Yglasias enough that he becomes a republican and starts giving *them* this garbage advice.
Since the Liz Cheney bloc of voters includes approx. 1 person, that is actually a smaller tent.
True centrist punditryism has never been tried!
There is no moderate position on consent of the governed- the government either bends to the rule or law and the people, or it doesn't.
We don’t want the party/leadership to sit on its hands for four years and say “Don’t worry we’ll beat them at the ballot box.”
2. Note the essentially opposite point he made here:
https://bsky.app/profile/mattyglesias.bsky.social/post/3lk74gxtfyk2l
Tariffs are to extort and break alliances.
Burn the book.
MattY is such an abomination. Such a pathetic person who is lucky to be born on 3rd base because he seemingly is incapable of any function in society except comforting the already comfortable.
A view like that leads you to bad conclusions.
Let me guess: be more racist & sexist, embrace every phobia possible, fuck the poor & burn the planet, right?
Hard pass.