Dems crushed it on the cultural issues in 2020 with BLM and trans rights and these guys said "no no no stop that" and then in 2024 Dems were crushing it with "these guys are weird" and these same guys said "no no no stop that" because they're weird about the same issues.
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Ask about generalities and you invoke emotional reactions. Ask about specific people or circumstances and most people agree with the promotion of equity and opportunity and dignity for all people.
Democracy is popular on the margins of society among those who need democracy to survive.
The electorate is trying to tell us something. 2/
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If that's fact, we wouldn't be in this mess.
I think the plan right now is just to randomly pull wires out of the Federal government until you pull the wire that's stopping you from getting laid.
Unrelated, isn't this a fun gif?
It's class warfare, not cultural warfare.
As a people, we keep buying it for some stupid reason, and the folks in charge *who should know better* simply will not push back - and worse, they denigrate those who do.
The shock. /faints
manufacturing consent, "oh they say it is an election loser"
He's wrong. All the time! But he speaks to all the dusty crags in (mostly white male) establishment Democrats' biases and soothes them.
Walz was an excellent anti-Matt, but being on a (narrowly) losing ticket
40 f****g years that tactic has failed us. At least!
Also Voters: "Damn, X sucks so badly, why would I vote for the party that doesn't *really* want to oppose it?"
or w/e i can't see the pic and skeet
What a pompous little shit
dammit typo
If Dems held their ground, they could definitely garner sympathy for the cause. God knows there's plenty to go around.
Even most Republicans report that they think there is too much anti-trans discrimination and that trans people shouldn’t face discrimination.
These guys just suck at messaging and are afraid of empowering progressives if they take moral stances.
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Yglesias: "no, not like that"
Downside is it requires you to believe in something.
This would explain why he's consistently gotten worse and worse ever since he went independent and had to court "popularity" and a subscriber base.
David Plouffe
Quentin Fulks
Stephanie Cutter
Jen OMalley Dillon
Civility doesn't win rights.
MLK Jr (who they love to trot out) warned about the white liberal "who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"
In your guts, you know MattY's nuts
Punditry as a profession must be destroyed.
L for all of human history.
It then let Ron Johnson be the only statewide elected Rep official in Wisconsin in 22, preventing Dems from being able to lose both Manchin and Sinema.
https://tenor.com/view/stupid-boy-kelly-shoes-liamkylesullivan-gif-7726055
'Human rights for everyone and billionaires will be held equal under the law and taxed their fair share'
or
'If you allow just anyone to go into women's restrooms of course I'll be in them.'
No one.
Not trans people.
Not black people.
Not gay people.
Not women.
Not children.
You don't defeat a monster by feeding it.
You defeat it by cutting off its ravenous head with the sword of truth and hanging its corpse in the town square.
Fuck him.
Dude, they lost.
Your spouse. Your mother. Your child.
Let’s get the politicians out of this and hear from the experts.
Pundits like this are wearing blinders and you have to wonder why.
What a vile human being.
Republicans: we should kill undocumented aliens and trans people
Democrats: that's kind of fucked up
Yglesias: why are Dems campaigning on identity politics
Individual liberty isn't really a "cultural issue."
It's a constitutional right that deserves defending.
(1) Run a star that can say they’re an outsider ready to fix the system. (Reagan, Clinton, Obama, Trump)
There is no step two.