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Democrats talk a lot about electability when it comes times to fight the left. But when their chosen candidates lose badly to disastrous consequences? They talk about what those candidates "deserve."

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elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son”

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Expanding on this - lakshyas sphere believes three unverifiable things: 1 - voters are reliable reporters of their own ideology 2 - voter ideology can be mapped predictably to specific policies 3 - political parties cannot/ do not change minds, especially by arguing.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

*generation that elected Reagan and Bush twice* we were smarter than you because we couldn't google

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submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Murder goes up? Proof we need more cops. Murder goes down? Proof cops work, so we should hire more.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Surely deporting the innocent family of the boulder attacker will prove that America is on the right side & will de escalate the cycle of violence.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It really is as simple as being willing to tell people we can use government to help each other instead of hurt each other

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The leaders matt yglesias has spent his entire career supporting are the ones making the choices he now pretends to be baffled by.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I know one of my core competencies is blaming everything on Dems but there would have been a counter narrative if Dems didn’t cowardly pivot right. it lent legitimacy to these lies and made it seem like there was a consensus.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

If the free market didn't choose segregation, the civil rights act would have been entirely pointless. The supreme court had to invent an entire doctrine of interstate commerce specifically to enforce the CRA provision making it illegal for a hotel to refuse black customers.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The Supreme Court striking down segregation was a regulation of the free market. Homeowners spending money and time lobbying for new racist regulations is the free market.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments