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Aspiring fantasy novelist. Hate Nazis. Liberal democracy is the worst system of government that has ever been tried, except for all the others. Suffering NY Giants fan. Brimstone main but I can't really aim.
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You don't actually know that. It's impossible to say without the counterfactuals
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If the choice is “now” or “never,” probably never is preferable. If the choice is “now” or “after he’s had another year to purge anyone with a conscience from the military, DOJ, and judiciary,” we’re probably better off having it now.
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Not even joking when I say “capable of learning” is the primary dividing line of the seventh party system.
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I mean they are, something like 6% of the country thought Harris/Biden were too conservative
it's not... *nothing*, per se, that's still tens of millions of people
but it is not a winning coalition
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Okay, but that's stupid though.
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Like, without an ability to glimpse into alternate realities, you have no idea the effectiveness of her campaign. Maybe in the reality where she tries to court progressive nonvoters she loses by more! "She didn't want to win" is the most braindead take imaginable.
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Every incumbent party in the developed world lost significant voteshare in 2024. I have no idea why the narrative here is "Harris lost a layup" rather than "Harris' campaign couldn't overcome near-impossible headwinds" in the face of millions who wanted to hit the "make it 2019 again" button
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What is your cutoff for "modern"? Because Vietnam is quite the precedent!