to put this another way: a sistah souljah moment could work for clinton because EVERYONE SAW IT. if kamala harris had set an effigy of kendi on fire, it is an open question whether it would have registered beyond anyone who was already decided on their vote - ThreadSky

jamellebouie.net • 22 days ago

to put this another way: a sistah souljah moment could work for clinton because EVERYONE SAW IT. if kamala harris had set an effigy of kendi on fire, it is an open question whether it would have registered beyond anyone who was already decided on their vote

Reposted from jamelle

part of my frustration is that this proscription doesn’t really take account of our fractured media environment and the inchoate nature of “moderate” as a label.

Comments

paulk1000.bsky.social•22 days ago

If she had rebuked Biden publicly and repeatedly, she could have won. But that’s not a ‘moderate’ V ‘progressive’ argument

gustavo64.bsky.social•22 days ago

People took all the wrong lessons from Clinton's victory. He won a plurality against an incumbent who was unpopular enough to have a primary challenger and an eccentric billionaire in a mild recession, and Democrats have been accepting everything he did as received wisdom ever since.

blakestacey.bsky.social•22 days ago

"Nothing in movement conservatism makes sense, except in the light of creationism." -- @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social

Scientists know that there's only so much you can do when the evolution deniers have their own media channels and use them to lie, day in and day out.

Same principle.

xinrtj.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agree a lot w this, we are vy siloed and don’t see the same media. But Dem goal shd be to peel away small numbers of voters in key districts. We aren’t gonna shift a huge percent. Do what we can to get seen by moveable voters in the right places, somewhat like Rs did w Latino voters.

adambonin.bsky.social•22 days ago

FWIW, Clinton's remarks were at a Rainbow Coalition event, covered by C-SPAN. It was print media, IIRC, which made them "viral" (esp. given Jackson's & Souljah's pushback.) It wasn't part of his Arsenio Hall appearance or something similarly high-profile, and I don't think they cut it into ads.

lulucaliente.bsky.social•22 days ago

This rings true. Also we knew that Bill was doing the kings x when he did it. People of color still love Bill C.

alexsteed.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thank you for speaking to this. This is what I feel is missing in all analysis ever.

presidentgoku.bsky.social•22 days ago

It means finding ways to make the conservative propaganda sphere hoist you up as a traitor to the left. For example, you make a video holding an AR-15 and wearing a 2A Dem shirt. You give the finger to the camera: "Hey David Hogg, you can't protect my family from ICE's masked thugs, but this can."

presidentgoku.bsky.social•22 days ago

Of course it's idiotic and not-actually-moderate, but cons love that shit. That's why they hoist you up, and them doing so identifies you as "a fighter who's not afraid of the limp-wristed democratic status quo." This is how Trump won the 2016 primaries on xenophobia as a peacenik and "moderate"

spiderseverywhere.bsky.social•22 days ago

the big pre-election omen I had was finding out my mother-in-law, who gets all her news from facebook, not only hadn't heard how badly trump had done in the debate but had come into an unshakable belief that trump had won and harris had been unable to string together a coherent sentence

k-daniel.bsky.social•22 days ago

You are whatever Fox News says you are to like 40% of the country. You do not get to decide if you are a moderate so you should just say what you actually believe.

desiderratum.bsky.social•22 days ago

And she did in fact go on Oprah and suggest she'd shoot a home-intruder! It's not like she didn't try to effect that kind of moment

eastbay442.bsky.social•22 days ago

How do we go forward in a country where basic facts and actual history no longer matter to half the electorate?

jarekfa.bsky.social•22 days ago

You need to find the right conflict in order to hack the system and go viral.

But there's so much info out there that people can generate their own preferred narratives. Even here, smart informed people are convinced she ran a campaign to advance the Liz Cheney agenda.

joelcalahan.com•22 days ago

What they’re longing for is not a moderate, but a world in which being moderate is popular and correct

edsperr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Better yet, Fox News would have presented it as "Making a solemn, holy sacrifice to Kendi because she loves them soooooooo much"

oldretiredlady.bsky.social•22 days ago

“Moderate” is just another word for fence sitter. Hard pass for me.

lazear.bsky.social•22 days ago

I can't even figure out who Kamalas Sistah Souljah would be. It's not like anyone on the left was spouting off politically questionable statements of that level in 2024 where it would be easy for a politician to say "yeah I don't agree with that".

jeevmon.bsky.social•22 days ago

Probably Lia Thomas.

shawnburks.bsky.social•22 days ago

I honestly I think that the problem is that Republicans will put forward some moral panic shit like "immigrant crime" liberals/leftists will try to point out the reality that immigrants commit fewer crimes meanwhile the moderates will start treating immigrant crime like it's a real problem

un5toppabl0.bsky.social•22 days ago

All she had to do was say Joe Biden was wrong on Palestine and she didn't have the balls to do it and it cost her the election she would rather cozy up to Liz Cheney and go right when she should have went left! ✊🏾 🍉

deadcarl.bsky.social•22 days ago

I do think the problem for Kamala was that she was already defined by the primary and then being VP.

jamellebouie.net•22 days ago

the other thing this take ignores is that Trump was uniquely situated to both attack Republicans and retain the support of Republican voters on the basis of his celebrity persona (“he’s not a politician”) and his cult of personality!

dirtddell.bsky.social•22 days ago

What is the limit of the cult of personality today, tho? It’s not just republicans, they just glom as part of their supremacy worldview. Personality projection is the language of media; it’s in the walls. All ego, no brakes. Not a conducive environment for coalition.

thejoechaney.bsky.social•22 days ago

it's also due to the Republicans historical inability/unwillingness to hold their own accountable. if they took down Trump for the "grab them by the tape, they'd open themselves up to decades' worth of backlash over their hypocrisy

alphabetenoire.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yes. Australians have destroyed America. Rupert Murdoch and Mark Burnett.

billygreg.bsky.social•22 days ago

Also, it would imply that Trump is somehow more “moderate” than Harris which is just… not true.

kingblackwhale.bsky.social•22 days ago

The “popularism” takes are so asinine. One of the things that *makes* left-wing positions unpopular is when the center-left attacks it.

I believe the George Floyd protests and “Defund the Police” all polled above water until mainline Dems attacked it, giving the MSM cover to go full negative.

kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•22 days ago

See: Biden all but calling anti-genocide protesters "Terrorist Sympathizers"

Thanks, you old fuck, I hope you die in pain and burn in hell.

kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•16 days ago

Wishes do come true 🤗

odetteroulette.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oh that's not ... I remember distinctly hearing ppl attempting to differentiate between that slogan, which overlooked the better idea, which was to fund police to be trained differently and change the entire job into something different, hiring different people for it.

kaitensatsuma.bsky.social•22 days ago

That happened later after the "moderate left" pushback

odetteroulette.bsky.social•22 days ago

No, it didn't. I remember there be a lot of discussion at the beginning about changing the job. Hiring ppl who would be community officers, and hiring based on better factors, for a job that really was abt protecting and serving, and THEN not long after that, "Defund the police" happened.

odetteroulette.bsky.social•22 days ago

At that pt,a lot of ppl correctly realized that wld be unpopular, even though it was a catchy slogan, plus retraining police or finding ways to connect the community, especially for the day to day, might be expensive.

There was a lot of not listening to each other but a lot of cynical assumptions.

kingblackwhale.bsky.social•22 days ago

The best thing the moderate left can do is say “whatever our differences, the far left and I agree that Trump and the GOP are dangerous and corrupt authoritarians who must be removed from power.”

The more people like the far left the more they’ll like the moderate left, and vice versa.

lizcious.bsky.social•22 days ago

I agree with most of what you say here, but I don't know if that last sentence is true - in my experience the far left hates the moderate left, and the moderate left hates the far left in kind.

odetteroulette.bsky.social•22 days ago

In my experience, the far left absolutely hates Democrats and Democrats wld really just like them to either pitch in to help us get better laws or go away.

It's been 25 years of far left helping GOP win and never holding them responsible. At some point, you have to wonder what they really want.

lizcious.bsky.social•22 days ago

Well yes I agree, but understand that to the far left saying "pitch in or go away" means "we just want you to help us with our thing and shut up about your thing. We don't care about your concerns and never will, but please still help us! And if you don't, everything is all your fault!"

kingblackwhale.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yeah the same very obviously goes for the far left making bad faith attacks against mainline Dems. Row in the same direction, everyone!

kingblackwhale.bsky.social•22 days ago

Sure, not disputing that. But other people often conflate the two. Trying to “distance” from the other just brings everyone down in standing

lizcious.bsky.social•22 days ago

Agreed in the sense that the broader public don't distinguish between moderate left and far left, and that either group attacking the other only hurts public perception the left in a broad sense.

aliceinkeynes.bsky.social•21 days ago

“Defund the Police”

Ffs, LET IT GO.

philipvernon.bsky.social•22 days ago

Referencing back to the original post, it all seems like an opaque and juvenile way of desperately asking for Clintonian 3rd-wayism (if not for Clinton himself) by those who are afraid to admit that they are actually and in hindsight now Eisenhower republicans.

epvh.bsky.social•22 days ago

Anyone that sees something positive for a candidate has already stated a preference for that candidate. Anything contrary to that is hidden away so as to not disrupt their engagement.

sbpnw.bsky.social•22 days ago

He personifies what emerges in the gaps created when you try to run a modern political state on a 350 year old conceptual foundation.

anonopundit.bsky.social•22 days ago

Jamelle, can you articulate what parts of the Harris platform and campaign were unpopular?

midnightmusings.bsky.social•22 days ago

Also “moderate” in this context is a synonym for anti-Black

nathanielcgreen.bsky.social•22 days ago

Anybody who thinks that "moderate" positions can help a political party regain power when it has lost it, when it has a legitimate point against its opponents, just needs to look up The Hartford Convention

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•22 days ago

True. The secret to winning elections is to gain the votes of people who hate parties, politicians, party politicians -- basically hate politics -- and who nevertheless vote anyways.

Trump -- not a politician, widely despised by people in his own party -- was uniquely situated to win those votes.

travisatkins.bsky.social•21 days ago

lol. 83yo Convicted Pedophile Donald Trump _lost_ by a historic margin (probably never to be duplicated in our lifetimes!) as an incumbent in 2020.

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•21 days ago

Number of US general elections held during an active plague: 1

travisatkins.bsky.social•21 days ago

lol. the Democratic Party won in 2018, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022.

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•22 days ago

People who voted for Trump, and no one else,

lessbadproblems.bsky.social•22 days ago

The oft-posted pic of the woman ecstatically presenting her baby to Trump at a rally occurred in 2015.

He just activates something in certain people's brains.

agwim.bsky.social•22 days ago

He is both an extremely effective cult leader and a genius at media/culture domination. Playing moderate to counter those twin devils won't work. Watch Pope Leo and the Vatican work to extract American Catholics from the MAGA cult. Bet they won't use 'moderation' as a strategy.

annaconda1.bsky.social•22 days ago

Bad Faith Energy

Crooked Communication

Capitalism again and again.

majeff.bsky.social•22 days ago

Russians would alter it to make it look like she was sacrificing a child, and that would spread through the conspiracy world and bubble up into OAN and....

koooooooogs.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'll never understand if your average Democrat is Blue No Matter Who then why not put your goddamn Left foot on the Left pedal and swerve Left as hard as you can. You're not winning moderates anyway, and the Blue No Matter Who's are blue no matter who.

aliceinkeynes.bsky.social•21 days ago

"I'll never understand if your average Democrat is Blue No Matter Who then why not put your goddamn Left foot on the Left pedal and swerve Left as hard as you can."

Quick question, is Bernie winning yet

koooooooogs.bsky.social•21 days ago

who?

aliceinkeynes.bsky.social•21 days ago

C'mon, guy, it's an easy yes or no

koooooooogs.bsky.social•21 days ago

winning what? Why are we talking about Bernie? Corrolery: Is David Hogg winning? Why or why not?

aliceinkeynes.bsky.social•21 days ago

"Why are we talking about Bernie?"

Because it directly answers your goofy question about why we don't just jerk the wheel to the left and gun it

Again: Is Bernie winning yet

bamamontana.bsky.social•22 days ago

Without moderates can you win the whole thing while the electoral college is a factor? I’m willing to try because we have lost with moderates so many times now, but the projections depend on a belief that many people who do not vote don’t vote because they are too leftist for mainstream politics

koooooooogs.bsky.social•22 days ago

that is a stupendously small demographic though.

avedonsays.bsky.social•22 days ago

Well, "moderates" are about 3.8% of the electorate, so I don't see pandering to them as a winning strategy, either.

bamamontana.bsky.social•22 days ago

Where’s that stat from?

avedonsays.bsky.social•22 days ago

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/02/beware-moderate-democrat

newsdeaddrop.bsky.social•22 days ago

Elections in the US are now routinely decided by less than .5%of voters. Exactly how small do you think the incomprehensible moderate squishy voter demographic is? Because it's way larger than .5% of voters. And frustratingly they happen to live in the places where they decide presidential elections

koooooooogs.bsky.social•21 days ago

those people are republicans.

bamamontana.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sometimes they are black church people or old school union northerners but usually yes they are republicans, which is why I’m wondering what a new coalition (suffering for donor money but firmly intent on improving the lives of working class Americans) could look like - unless…

josephusbrown.bsky.social•22 days ago

I would also argue that everybody keeps putting too much emphasis on the stuff Clinton did in the 92 campaign because Perot got *19 percent* of the total vote

Take him out and odds are good Clinton loses in a landslide and the dems blame triangulation for it instead

danelectro.bsky.social•22 days ago

I can't stop thinking about this

bacullenyyc.bsky.social•22 days ago

Tell Pierre Poilievre that there’s no by-election until Danielle Smith has one to allow Nenshi to run. No more kid gloves for these right wing loons

podmanietzsche.bsky.social•21 days ago

Fox is rarely included as a mega political influencer in analyses of WTF is going on.

coreyatad.com•22 days ago

and all the media guys who despise Kendi for very pure reasons i'm sure would still find a way to say it wasn't good enough

swflman.bsky.social•22 days ago

you just need to watch fox at any time day or night for 30 mins or so. and imagine half the electorate is getting their political information there. that explains everything.

jroberts548.bsky.social•22 days ago

Between Gaza, cheney, the border security bill, building the wall, funding the police, “the most lethal military in the world,”
etc. she had an abundance of sistah souljah moments. None registered to the intended audience, but it might have pushed a couple sistah souljahs out of the tent.

jroberts548.bsky.social•22 days ago

Except for 2017-2019, when she was in the senate and running in the primaries, her whole career is exactly what these so-called moderates say they want. We’re expected to believe a few opinions she had in 2019 when she dropped out of the primaries matter more than her entire career and 2020-24.

burnstony.bsky.social•22 days ago

You also can’t compare the two campaigns. Turnout was 56% v 66% with a huge third party vote.

jetteski.bsky.social•22 days ago

Nobody hates/fears the far left more than democrats—meanwhile the GOP gave their far right attention and an outlet (CPAC), and now runs on far right energy. Instead of us pulling the country backnto the center we let ourselves get dragged further to the right.

chiefskitty.bsky.social•22 days ago

robpollard45.bsky.social•22 days ago

One small, but meaningful example of this is Dems announced they would do "shadow" hearings to highlight issues (w witnesses) that most voters care about.
People on here said, "Yes, now they're DOING something!"

They just did a nice hearing on small biz. 3.5k views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUGde5q-vk

tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social•22 days ago

Jamelle, it will never be about anything, but let's see how much we can get away with before they stop us, then let's attack those who stopped us. Until the end is met, their end is 2025 rolled out, our end must be to prevent it.

clhoffman.bsky.social•22 days ago

As a close follower of politics I have never known exactly what the sister Souljah moments was . I watched the debates with Ross Perot and his little charts. I saw him play the saxophone on Arsenio Hall. Never heard anyone talk about it irl at the time or since except media on twitter

rvaux16.bsky.social•22 days ago

🎯 Donald Trump feigned blowing a microphone the Friday before he was elected.

"The Black woman needed to do more" just doesn't hold water in the face of that.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-mimes-blow-job-165258135.html

ryampolsky.bsky.social•22 days ago

"The black woman needed to do more" is not the argument. The fact that you think it is is the argument. Kamala failed to ignite because she didn't try to do more than not get called out on her contradictions.

travisatkins.bsky.social•21 days ago

lol “failed to ignite”. she got more votes in the swing states then Big Joey did when he was running against an incumbent and won! She ran a perfect campaign, you guys are just gonna have to come to grips with just how many virulently racist PedoCon’s (your friends&neighbors) actually voted in 2024.

ryampolsky.bsky.social•21 days ago

In her defense, she had some nasty headwinds. Gaza, Afghanistan, inflation, immigration - all were working against her. She fell back too much on the abortion issue that worked in her favor - but in a repetitive way that didn't sustain the attention. And some states had already solved it locally.

travisatkins.bsky.social•21 days ago

How was her being VP when Big Joey ended America’s two longest running wars (one of which being Afghanistan), a headwind for her?

Also, how exactly was “immigration” to America, working against her?

ryampolsky.bsky.social•21 days ago

Well, I wish I were in your bubble, but both were used effectively against her - mainly because she didn't have any ready answers to the questions raised about them. And her "I'll get to the border eventually" comment as VP didn't help.

ryampolsky.bsky.social•21 days ago

Nobody runs a perfect campaign. And "I can't think of anything I'd change" is perhaps the most boneheaded interview answer ever. She got a lot of votes, because Trump is *that* bad. But not enough votes to win. How is that perfect?

travisatkins.bsky.social•21 days ago

sorry I know it’s hard for you guys, but you’re gonna have to come to grips with *just* how many of your lily white friends & neighbors are actually virulently racist PedoConservatives and voted in 2024.

rvaux16.bsky.social•22 days ago

Okay, so... Kamala needed to do more? Than the 34-count felon adjucated rapist who tried to overthrow the government and kept state secrets in his bathroom? Whose campaign was a disaster from beginning to end? The white man wouldn't change, so the Black woman needed to step up?

ryampolsky.bsky.social•22 days ago

I don't mean *any* of that. What I mean was that her being a black woman was maybe one factor among many. And pretending it was the main factor ignores the rest. Including the fact that Democratic turnout was down. And that she did worse among Black men than Biden or Clinton.

avedonsays.bsky.social•22 days ago

How about, "The black woman needed to campaign with Democrats, to Democrats, and for Democrats, instead of to Republicans, with Republicans, and for billionaires and crypto bros"? I mean, God alive, she couldn't even defend Lina Khan.

rvaux16.bsky.social•22 days ago

Did she stand in a corner and sway for 30 minutes straight during a campaign event?

The white man wouldn't change, so the Black woman needed to be perfect?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IkNvUaCwIU

avedonsays.bsky.social•21 days ago

The black woman needed to do in October what she'd been doing before that had her winning. She was WINNING! Until she suddenly started campaigning to the right and started losing.
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Pres/Maps/Sep12.html

asherelbein.bsky.social•22 days ago

And could very easily have specifically acted to *depress* those voters, not activate them, at that!

asherelbein.bsky.social•22 days ago

Seems like an attempt to signal moderation that only your partisans see probably does more harm than good

rdthorsett.bsky.social•22 days ago

This 👆

oneoneder.bsky.social•22 days ago

The only thing that matters is getting your propaganda in front of voters, and that means pandering to people who control media outlets and social media attention

Thus, the pandering to NYT editor centrists and crypto thieves

tridang.bsky.social•21 days ago

I jokingly told a friend that the most effective Sistah Souljah move for the next Dem nominee would be a promise to pardon Luigi.

I said it as a joke, but I’m a pessimist and it may well be the ONLY move that has crossover appeal and that EVERYONE would notice.

spherical-cow.bsky.social•22 days ago

That's not a reason not to try. Just saying loudly that Kendi and DiAngelo were not particularly bright grifters, something that, to her credit, I'm sure Kamala knows, would have been a good start.

jamellebouie.net•22 days ago

yeah, this seems like you aren’t grappling with what i said and are just mindlessly repeating what you think must work

spherical-cow.bsky.social•22 days ago

It might or might not work, but the cost seems to be zero.

thepines.bsky.social•22 days ago

Same with Tester in Montana. GOP voters in red states are too far gone now and it's really not the Dems fault. Also, the Dems are not nearly as toxic and the Republicans even in Montana! Tester was a great candidate!! The voters are just fucking lost.

jeffreyd.bsky.social•22 days ago

I also have never been clear on the research saying any of this shit works ... did people really vote for Trump because of the they/them ad? Or because they thought he funny rich TV man make America good time fun party money again?

kentallardjr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Also, let's not forget what the Sistah Souljah moment was about: A rapper at an NAACP event talked about killing white people after police shootings. Clinton denounced her.
It's not as if he was making some radical policy shift, there was no Kill Whitey federal program he was endangering.

21kelly.bsky.social•22 days ago

Folks, it's democracy or autocracy at this point. The time to have these discussions has passed, for now.

petedavidsonny.bsky.social•22 days ago

So true. The silos are a problem when it comes to getting the word out.

mikedeey.bsky.social•22 days ago

Perhaps Trump won because just enough “swing” voters believed his cockamamie nonsense about how he would lower prices, make IVF free and who knows what else. The simplest explanation is often the correct explanation.

ryampolsky.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'm not sure *anyone* believed Trump's nonsense about how he would lower prices, etc. But they did believe his lies about the country being in the worst shape ever. Voter after voter has said they didn't like Trump, but they were more afraid of Kamala. That's the message that flew.

mikedeey.bsky.social•22 days ago

Plenty believed he was a real life tooth fairy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/fired-federal-worker-trump-voter/

ryampolsky.bsky.social•22 days ago

Plenty. But not enough to have won it. We need to remember that the Trump true believers are still a crazy minority.

mikedeey.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s not the true believers that pushed home over the top. It’s people like the Michigan woman in the story.

ryampolsky.bsky.social•22 days ago

True. But people like this woman should've been reachable - even though the true believers are not. Not that I know what could've been done to reach her - given the media environment.

ryanwithcupcake.bsky.social•22 days ago

Another problem is that trying to replicate a famous event just looks inauthentic. Democrats have punched everyone on the left twice, so it feels routine.

jonpennington.bsky.social•22 days ago

I was around then & another important point is that Clinton got a lot of support from elder Black people who were disapproving of that newfangled rap de rap music. So Clinton wasn’t necessarily alienating a core constituency of his party when he did that.

jmcunning.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yes. The longing for "moderation" presumes a media environment in which a politician's moderating turn is neutrally presented to the entire electorate, who are then able to judge it on its own terms.

jmcunning.bsky.social•22 days ago

(It also presumes that voters value "moderation" as an abstract concept and will reward politicians who shift positions for the sake of appealing to the median voter.)

oneoneder.bsky.social•22 days ago

Right, you need to pander to NYT journalists and make them think you're cool

Obama was great at this, Biden and Harris were terrible. I sympathize because I basically want to gut those people with a rusty spoon.

iowalibdem.bsky.social•22 days ago

Which, to put another way: a personal ability to capture and hold attention is now even more important. Harris did her best and said all the right things, but she was dealt a lousy hand and lacked the natural talent to reverse her luck. People like Clinton and Obama are rare.

tachyontransmitter.bsky.social•22 days ago

If there’s anything 2024 should have taught the Dems, it’s that deliverism and trying to calibrate the exact correct policies to win the extremely low-info, often deeply confused “swing voter” is a fool’s errand. Politics on a state and national level now is like 80% vibes.

markr51.bsky.social•22 days ago

Reading this thread is confirmation that ideological terminology in USian discourse is completely incoherent.

aploverplods.bsky.social•22 days ago

I feel like the political memory of this stuff is way overdetermined. We remember that the sistah souljah moment as having worked because Clinton won. The consensus seems to be that Clinton winning had more to do with Ross Perot taking more votes from Bush.

avedonsays.bsky.social•22 days ago

Except that an awful lot of Democrats voted for Perot, so I don't think that's true.

markr51.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s not. Perot drew votes more or less equally from both sides.

aploverplods.bsky.social•22 days ago

I always thought this, but just looked up academic studies on the question and concede that I was wrong. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2991792

aploverplods.bsky.social•22 days ago

That said, the "economy" seems to have been the determining issue... not sister souljah.

lotusrice.bsky.social•22 days ago

There’s analysis of the mañanero, a press briefing, every weekday morning, by AMLO and now Claudia Sheinbaum as a way to overcome the fractured media environment. It’s a model for overcoming the fractures.

yosemitettam.bsky.social•22 days ago

That would require recruiting and elevating politicians based on charisma and general public speaking ability rather than time served as staffers or in think tanks. Some parts of the party are allergic to that idea, sometimes for different reasons.

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