Simply cannot think of a more winning message than “I hate our base.”
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Sahil Kapur
After outperforming Kamala Harris and winning in Michigan, Elissa Slotkin in mid-November called on Democrats to speak like normal people — "not from the faculty lounge, but from the assembly line."
"I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo," she said at the time.
"I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo," she said at the time.
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"haven't we done enough for _you people_?"
step 2) co-opt them to fuel your personal advancement
step 3) hand over power to the right and blame it on “the radicals”
capital has followed this pattern of divorce, co-option and retrenchment since workers first started organizing
Those are not related complaints! I have never met a woman who didn't agree there us sexism or a black person there is racism.
Not academic