I am worried this is going to become the conventional wisdom over the next four years: If those pesky college students and activists and SJWs hadn't over-reached, Trump II never would have happened.
It is nonsense.
It is nonsense.
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We can preach about "going high" and who are the real perpetrators, but in the end, none of it matters if the goals arent achieved. Patting ourselves on the back while losing
They love the romance of elite self-awareness but cant ever seem to look in a mirror
I remember watching news of the Gaza protests and thinking they were exactly what Trump needed to drive on the fence types to him.
If they just throw us to the wolves, it'll satisfy their bloodlust apparently
We won't let it.
Democrat institutionalism / Clintonism developed specifically as a hardening against activist pressure that had built environmental regulation. Their compromise was that the admin state would persist
WHO says WHAT to WHOM - never the wrong questions to ask, doubly important now.
It's the abuser saying "if only you would stop making me hit you."
They are trying to keep their jobs.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
1. the backlash could be mobilized faster than the inevitable demographic shift.
2. that some folks in the Latino, Black, and Asian communities would vote increasingly conservative in alignment with *perceived* faith and economic interests.
It was not a threat in 2024.
See also: COVID-era school closures and vaccine mandates.
Children who learn to manipulate by lies quickly figure out that equating their lies to lies told by others is a great dodge.
What would be helpful is a long, well written, well sourced blog post or similar piece discussing the facts
Pathetic
She wasn't running on this. Trump incessantly claimed she was running on this.
But we live in the age of the shameless "double down".
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
https://bsky.app/profile/missingjigsaw.bsky.social/post/3lhw4b35xmk26
Will: "Trump is liberal's fault"
YApplebaum: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Brooks: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Bedbug: "Trump is liberal's fault"
It's almost as if a memo went out at Bari's University of Bullshit.
Was it an orchestrated cointelpro-like initiative by online RW operatives disguised as progressives?
It will eventually snap and hit them in the face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Climate change and general entry into anthropocene era means we have to do things differently. Some highly greedy, selfish individuals are trying to hang on to the existing system for their own benefit.
'wokeness' is a propaganda project that's been used over & over again to simply put down and oppress any deviance from a white Christian nationalist (fascist douchebag) point of view. It's just an updated shorthand of referring to SJWs, radical leftists, liberals, progressives, etc etc.
Reactionaries: "THEY WANT TO BAN HORTON HEARS A WHO!!!"
Schools: "We're going to stock kitty litter for emergency latrines in the event of a lockdown."
Reactionaries: "KIDS ARE IDENTIFYING AS CATS!!!"
You are not only FULLY and SOLELY responsible for your own actions/reactions, but those of your abuser as well.
Listen to how aggrieved these men are.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/upshot/voters-trump-bernie-sanders.html
Quintessential examples: a two-second gay kiss in Buzz Lightyear to show that a co-star was a lesbian. By-the-numbers "very special episodes" of kids' TV cartoons >
The astroturfed campaigns against these things were ridiculous to normal people, but radicalized huge numbers of impressionable boys through sheer anger. It's easy for 500 popular YouTubers to paint >
Do I have any great solution? No... but most refused to believe anyone was >
They were afraid we'd go further.
LMAO, even
OK, sure, I'll tell all the Black people in South Carolina that.
Still, I'd have thought that maybe TCW would feel some shame and realize that he's the one perpetuating the moral panic Trump rode to victory.
*imo, ymmv, etc
h/t @mattbors.bsky.social
A rising tide lifts all boats.
*Disclaimer: I am not saying the US had great acceptance prior to 9/11 because I know someone will jump on me for this.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-m-kruse/myth-america/9781541604667/?lens=basic-books
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-resistance-didnt-go-too-far-it-didnt-go-far-enough-opinion-2028158
In effect, the enemy declared war and won because our leaders didn't even show up.
THAT is why we have Trump II.
If you kids hadn't worn rude t-shirts to the Iraq War protest I would have opposed the war, etc, etc, on and on forever amen.
And we already had the votes of people wanting reproductive rights, no need to make it the center of her campaign.
Persuadable centrists were stampeded about gas, groceries and rent.
Imagine making voting your entire personality and then... not fully following through and blaming everyone else
Jesus its no wonder Harris didn't win. I don't understand the purity test BS Dem party does. @kenmartin.bsky.social better fix that
if you want Democrats to (1) win elections and (2) not collaborate with MAGA when they do, the MOST important thing you can do is make current Dems lose primaries
if you start blaming Republicans, how are you going to appeal to the Liz Cheney Republican, a character who definitely exists outside the NYT op-ed page
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4983797-carville-defund-the-police-woke-harris-black-lives-matter/amp/
The point here is that it's actually good to say Defund the Police, but it's bad to say "Democrats need to stop saying Defund the Police" because
So carville helps GOP win.
I got a lot of angry pushback for posts like this one (quoted). So many people straight up attacked me for not voting for Harris (I did) because it was incomprehensible to defend someone who didn’t.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pamela-paul-goodbye-to-the-new-york-times-opinion-columnist.html
I mean I think I understand where you're going here with "overreach" but it does seem like pushback from "wokeness", aka decency, probably did a lot of this. Maybe what I'm trying to say is that this bears examination, though not from the "we need less wokeness" angle
It bears examining, just not from fundamentally dishonest pundits.
Seriously, with "friends" like these....
I don’t think they had THAT much of an outsize impact on the election! We’re viewing everything through an extremely online lens!
yesterday
from someone i respect