they spent the last 13 years making sure nobody else threatened the succession structure of ancient congressional leaders starting with Hillary Clinton and slandered the only grassroots multigenerational enthusiasm as nefarious Bernie Bros - ThreadSky

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social • 6 days ago

they spent the last 13 years making sure nobody else threatened the succession structure of ancient congressional leaders starting with Hillary Clinton and slandered the only grassroots multigenerational enthusiasm as nefarious Bernie Bros

Reposted from steven monacelli

Back in 2012, Democrats seemed to have a solid lead in social media politics. Now they have clearly fallen behind. What went wrong?

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

again, I used the word "slandered" specifically

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

note this is the exact opposite of the problem they had when Obama started winning primaries thanks to his online savvy and Harry Reid had to make a quick decision to back the next generation instead of Its Her Turn Volume 1. they've spent every year since trying to stop it from happening again

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

during that time period you also had people like AOC finally come up, specifically beating a blue dog IDC member, the NY Dem caucus that voted Republican. National leadership has fucked with her ever since. Of course they don't give a shit about robust communication ecosystems

kush-knut.bsky.social•6 days ago

a full ecosystem doesn't funnel tv ad spend money to my buddy's company that i'm also on the board of

usuallyannoyed.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think you’ve correctly identified the problem within the Democratic Party

dochaus.bsky.social•6 days ago

They will NEVER forgive AOC for beating Joe Crowley and demanding Pelosi do things in her first few months, no matter how hard she tries to earn their favor now.

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

you spend a decade telling the next generation of politically engaged citizens that they're not needed and have nothing to contribute except to shut up and vote for whoever's next in line, that's just the cherry on top of 50 years of the right's unobstructed project to roll back the 20th century

holdendisperra.bsky.social•6 days ago

They DESPERATELY tried to make Mayo Pete the anointed young person until his complete lack of juice couldn’t land with anyone under 50

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

it was so funny when he tried doing his obama impression too, you can tell there's no other template for them to even start trying with

aprilsaga.gay•6 days ago

God I wish the Democratic Party would just hurry up and die. I don't know what'll replace them but at least it won't be the Democratic Party.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•6 days ago

🤷‍♂️It's a mystery! It must be Chapo tbqh.

lakewitchhouse.bsky.social•6 days ago

im laughing b/c the only podcasters or w/e i even recognized in the piece were the jon pods, didn't even mention Hasan

dashwallkick.bsky.social•6 days ago

Politico keeps trying to say "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" when they are running PR for the team that asked Hasan to leave the DNC on election night

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