the trump campaign was literally bought and paid for by the wealthiest people on the planet — openly! — and dim-witted pundits are going on about how voters are tired of "elitist democrats"
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a critical number of non-college educated voters have responded to the precarity of the modern economic order by embracing values of entrepreneurism and individual "hustle" that trump reflects back to them in an outsized, entertaining and ultimately compelling way.
Bible based Christianity and many leftist political ideologies see equality, inclusion and compassion as fundamental human values. Others feel differently. Who decides which “wins”?
US Constitution was supposed to be guiding document but no longer.
You have nailed this. I've raged about Ds failure to retake the word "elites" - but this is really, really insightful.
Somehow, Rs captured "the grind".
Having come from an immigrant Hispanic community, "hustle culture" resonates strongly there... Even before Trump. I thought KH did a good job messaging on an"opportunity economy" that valued entrepreneurship, but it didn't break thought.
I think this may be the best take I've seen. A lot of people work non traditional jobs now, and while Harris tried to speak to this with the $50k tax deduction at the end of the race, it wasn't enough. I thought this is where Andrew Yang shined with his messaging.
because the democratic party is no longer grounded in any particular set of movements or any kind of discrete community, it missed this development and does not have a way to respond to it. there is no democratic story to tell here.
to me this has been the through-line this week. the willingness to drift to around to curry favor not only alienated those they drifted away from at times, but instead of being read as moderate and cooperative seems to instead have been perceived as uncertain in their own policy too
I'll be honest, I think you have people with stories like that with both AOC, and as much as folks seem to kinda not like her for various reasons Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
but this problem is completely distinct from "democrats are elitists." what this problem is that democrats are speaking the language of a politics and political order that no longer exists. most republicans are doing the same, for that matter.
Do you see leftist online revolutionary eschatology and other forms of pseudo political fantasy as a parallel but distinct retreat from politics on the left? Obviously they are different because Walmart arson posters have a pretense to talking about the political but practically they disengage.
Once it became clear nobody cared about the way the Trump campaign slandered an Arlington employee and used footage taken there to rile up public sentiment against the Biden-Harris admin for the Afghanistan withdrawal, this race was always going to be too close for comfort.
trump's unique advantage is that he literally comes out of — and to some extent helped build — the cultural environment that has produced the stories that these voters find compelling.
Except that he doesn't. He's never worked hard at anything and most of his "business" efforts have failed. The only thing he's ever been good at is getting attention, which is sadly the most important currency these days.
But like... most of those "compelling" stories are simply not based in reality. How do you even being to engage with people who are so disconnected from a fact based world?
the stories we tell about our country -- what it is, has been, could be -- have never been *factual.* they're aspirational; they gesture at something beyond truth.
in addition, by virtue of having a kind of blue collar affect himself, trump's very presence enhances the esteem of identities that are associated with hard work and americanism. supporting trump can then become a way to enhance your own sense of status or even to assimilate into the mainstream.
Identifying himself as a “builder” & associaitng himself with the trades adds weight to his phony identity. Even though he ripped off many of his workers/contractors/clients/customers. Which Dems uniformly avoided as a means of attack.
Yeah, I think it's at least partly the case that people (for some reason?) see Trumpism as a "volk" elitism representing values worth emulating while Democratic elitism is framed & derided as Weimar decadence.
And when you think about the fact that this image of Trump is one he's carefully built - as he is exactly NOT that. He is not self-made, he is not hard working. His image is a carefully constructed glamour to hide that he is exactly what those people dislike. He is an elite; generational wealth.
Despite being a scion of a wealthy New York real estate family, he’s the embodiment of the resentment of the (white, wealthy) people who say, “Money can’t buy class.”
I’m going to need “blue collar affect” to be defined for me, because trump’s prissy, pampered whining doesn’t comport with any “blue collar” as I understand the term.
the challenge is building out an alternative cultural story that connects prosperity to solidarity and democracy. that *convinces* people that you can be a success without climbing over others. i don’t know where that will come from! i think it is something that you’ll ultimately have to find.
Nailed it! Trump speaks with a Queen’s accent almost blue collar. People don’t realize he was given 400 million by his dad before 18. He was not a self made man. He was a self made loser bailed out by his dad, Mark Burnett, the government etc.. his connection to Epstein & blackmail was buried!
My sense is that this analysis risks lumping all T voters together. That's a mistake. For one thing, it does not account for the many T voters who find him personally offensive.
So I'll ask: What, and which, portion of T voters do you think this analysis applies to?
"Blue collar affect" = high school educated white male. That's all this entire election boils down to, the reestablishment of white male supremacy economically, politically and socially.
I know this is early but we do have SOME evidence of how “Trumpism without Trump” fares, so how do you see that playing out at the top of the ticket in the future? Of course, this assumes a lot out our system and its future condition.
This is Vance’s schtick too: a scrappy poor guy who made it thanks to the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley. Is why Latinos and rancho libertarians like trump
That's the part I'll never get over. He's a loudmouth moron with a golden toilet. His affect should be disqualifying before the other 999 more serious issues.
The Sports Radioification of politics hasn't helped. "Kevin from Secaucus is on the line, what's your take on the debate, Kevin"... And Kevin rolls into his pre-written ramble.
There's the identity aspect—where a strongman bestows upon the insecure man an unearned sense of pride and accomplishment—and then there's the environmental conditions surrounding people's lived experiences. (Hmm where have we see that before?)
Any sort of blue collar affect Trump has is fake as hell. He’s new rich and is pissed that actual rich NYers never accepted him. And he’s never worked hard in his life. He just hates the same people as his voters.
Many swing voters detest the weakness they perceive on the Democratic Part. They want dems when in power to be ruthless like the republicans.
We are still on the trickled down economics, any profit for the businesses, most blue color workers don't see a dime in raises.
How is someone worth hundreds of million dollars considered blue collar? Donna Jr once called his father a blue collar billionaire. That literally does not exist
yes! Trump is a libidinal figure -- he represents a sort of fundamental, assumed *truth* about what success means in America. he's the American Id made flesh. people respond to that, whether consciously or not
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both trump and Rogan emerged from reality television, and in trump’s case despite being a punchline for 30 years before running, people’s awareness of him was something that could just be tweaked rather than something that needed to be cultivated.
I'm interested what you mean here. Like, if the current moment is about the working class, and organized labor has higher approval than any time in my life, why didn't the most pro-labor admin in at least half a century land for people?
Voters minds are controlled by the propaganda coming out of Fox News, and Musk’s Xcretia. If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. When Jurors have been presented with the unfiltered facts in a courtroom, they have made the right decision.
Ok, yeah I've seen that for sure. Yeah I genuinely don't know how to deal with that, cuz absent facts and reality, you really don't have anything, but that void just won a majority so 🤷♂️
I'm such a policy minded guy, I just can't understand going "yeah reality says this but vibes"
Feels like R’s have successfully redefined “elitist.” As more people adopt the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire mindset, “Elite” has gone from meaning “wealthy ruling class” to “working experts with real knowledge of their fields,” which pundits of all stripes are now running with
Idk if embracing YIMBYism ten years ago would have yielded any electoral benefits but it definitely would have generated a deep reservoir of stories the party could tell about communities built, families formed, and dreams realized.
I hadn’t thought about it like this — when I see Trump trading cards and watches and bibles my reaction is “loser shit”…but that’s not a widely (enough) shared opinion!
Think of it as unearned privilege that people don’t want to give up. Despite the unholy screeches of denial whenever white, male, straight, Christian, etc. privilege are brought up, quite a few people know it’s real and don’t want things to be fair and equal. Status quo is fine for them.
Don’t know what narrative will eventually out compete trump but so far we have Obama “Romney is the boss who wants to downsize you“, the Harris/Warren “fairness economy” agenda for middle class costs like housing, AOC’s “dignity of a paycheck”
The 1st step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality & stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools & muzzle the intelligent by emotional excitement on the 1 hand & terrorism on the other BR
As someone who is nominally a small business owner the utter absence of any actual business language in Trump’s businessman schtick is remarkable. He doesn’t even bother to drop in a misused “ROI” or anything. It’s all just capitalism vibes.
And let's not forget the mountain of blatant lies the other side told shamelessly. One side believes in law and reality. The other side will say and do almost anything, no matter how dishonest or who it hurts. Trump is a snake oil salesman. Hard to honestly compete with all of this.
This. The intersection of self-branding, girlbossing, hustle culture, crypto scams, and the manosphere is trying to be exceptional enough to thrive in uncertain times. Their fans don’t want to level the playing field; they want to be the ones on top. They want cybertrucks, not guillotines
"They want cybertrucks, not guillotines" is the pithiest way I have seen the @tompepinsky.bsky.social 'everyday authoritarianism is boring and tolerable' ever expressed.
Yes. The cyber truck provides a roll-of-the-dice adventure every day, requiring its driver to be resourceful, McGyver-like. With the guillotine, on the other hand, the same thing happens pretty much every time.
Agree. But I'm not sure they prefer cybertrucks to guillotines. More that they want a self image anchored in power, desirability, and strength. And we have done a poor job of showing how team guillotine is /way/ more powerful than team cybertruck.
Whether it’s redpilling, incels, or wellness scams, the gateway drug is some combination of “exercise self-discipline” and get rich quick schemes. The economy is smoke and mirrors, and you too can be rich with this one weird trick that wall st/big pharma/the woke mob doesn’t want you to know
I have been advocating for the change of the motto on our currency from Our n God We Trust to Screw Your Neighbor. Isn’t that the one weird trick you mean.
so, the magas think trump is elite. an elite that 'gets them', and will make them rich or otherwise service their christo-fascist vision for America. just sayin'
Yeah, when the richest man in the world buys one of the most important social media platforms for global exchange of ideas and weaponizes it into a propaganda faucet/Nazi free for all… I’m not really interested in the hot take on what Cardi B should have said.
Maybe the reason is there is no reason. We exist in different realities and cannot find their reason in our reality. Unfortunately they’re voting in our reality
Pundits actively trying to blame it on minorities as we speak! Meanwhile Trump won with less votes than he got last time. This countries political media is broken.
It's like they don't even remember that this is the first time since 2004 the Republican candidate won the popular vote... And the people who voted for Biden didn't vote for Trump, they just didn't vote apparently 😡
Nixon is the last one who didn't, and his driving motivation was the same burning resentment at not being socially accepted into the upper class was the same as Trump's.
Yeah, it's going off how they turned him into some sort of plucky populist. I just don't understand why they'd eviscerate other politicians for doing that when it was clearly false, and they give this guy a free pass. And they have a track record this time around too.
It’s not elitist democrats, it’s mind-bogglingly tone deaf and out of touch democrats. Basically, old dumbasses that can’t see how the world has changed.
This comment goes hand-in-hand with a TikTok I just saw! Kinda wish I could be one of those people that has no morals and just claimed this idea as my own, but oh well here ya go!
Who raised $1.0 billion for Harris in a short period? Don’t try to tell us it was $10 at a time. Who spent campaign funds on rock stars? Who with the most money went broke and who offered to help out the broke party?
This framing is not acidental. It aims to ensure that the people who will be blamed for the Trump administration are exactly those who fought/voted against it, but were not sucessful. Never those who voted for it or actually implemented the agenda. It is profoundly evil and deliberate, imho.
To an extent republicans have done that for decades. They scream about problems while never attempting to offer solutions, blame democrats and get re-elected.
That’s why part of me thinks them having a trifecta will at least remove Dems as the scapegoat bc they have no policy to actually help the people who just elected them.
They always need an enemy, no matter how little sense it actually makes. Cause if they don't have a target to focus on? Their whole ruse is blown wide open.
That's the point; it's a vicious, self-serving cycle. They don't want solutions because they never actually wanted to fix anything. They just keep saying "govmt is broken, I will fix it", get elected, do nothing & break stuff, and campaign on the first point all over again 🙄
but like, did the DNC actually "fight" against Trump when they refused to adopt a platform that voters actually want? if the Democrats don't address people's real needs then voters will go to the party that lies about addressing their real needs.
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Most pundits underestimate (again) how stupid and/or unethical most people can be as well. As scammers, MAGA are just leveraging this with age-old tools to dupe people into voting against their own interest. Social Media has additional responsibility in promoting and amplifying the scam.
He's not wrong.
They lie all day long, and people are eating it up. The people who watch aren't interested in hearing anything else because they think anything else is all lies.
Reagan did a lot of shitty things, but abolishing the fairness doctrine may have been the most destructive of all.
Had someone tell me that “trump and elon are gonna drain the swamp”, and I just sat there dumbfounded like… you realize how many gov contracts elon has, my guy?
I am on the Autism Spectrum. In my life, white college educated liberals have assiduously avoided looking in my direction. People in MAGA hats and Trump t-shirts will start conversations with me. So I understand the being tired of "elitist democrats."
Republicans: *a parade of nepotistic millionaire and billionaires passing policy to create an aristocratic class to control every aspect of private life *
I 100% get that the money is mostly on the other side. However, I could really stand to see fewer middle-class democrats on social platforms saying the working class deserves to suffer for voting Trump when the lowest income brackets have been *less* likely to vote for him than the middle class.
Trump insults the working class in private. White middle-class college educated Democrats insult the working class in public. The working class may not have the academic credentials, but they are smart enough to know when they are being insulted. It is the middle class that votes for fascism.
Democrats are just constantly amazed that people like you vote AGAINST your own economic interests, your own self-interests, the future of your children, unions, and so much more -- and FOR those who want to take away your rights.
Democrats are not going to out villain Republicans on cultural issues because progressive vilification on "cultural issues" (democracy, "garbage," even abortion) clearly doesn't resonate broadly enough. Visceral anger against the powerful is necessary.
Only wish they were truly "elitist". Giving how well all that wealth behind Trump turned out an activism ground game that put him back into office. Dems wanted volunteers without any compensation. Trump hired those interested/recruited with all that money and put them to work for him.
I remember @dandrezner.bsky.social had something about that - elitism just means a different thing to each. For people on the left it's plutocrats, for those on the right it's technocrats.
Well, it just goes to show how easily stupid people can be convinced that the very people they have been conned into believing will be their salvation will actually become their slave masters....alas they will learn their mistakes too late...too late for them and too late for us.
Yeah, fuck that narrative. And fuck greedy billionaires. Fuck the talking heads. More power to serious, bold as brass journalists - now their time to shine! I’m waiting!
Of course that is the narrative that many in the media like to encourage. The reality is that ELITES like those that use SNAP programs, support union membership, investing in childcare programs, cancelling student debt, rely on social security, & medicare are who the Democratic Party supports.
Dim-witted elitest pundits. Let's be clear. Tapper, Bash, and others wanted this to happen because they knew it would mean big ratings for them. They can now sob crocodile tears for 4 years while not being affected.
Its why you should block CNN, Bash, and Tapper, to start, right now.
I place a significant portion of the blame on the abysmal failure of the MSM nationwide. Had these entities done the bare minimum, this nation (and our allies) wouldn't be staring into the abyss. What made them think their own heads weren't also going to land on the block?
This absolutely needs to be investigated. A shady South African Billionaire, Ex KGB/Dictator/Russian President, and a swindler/former President are a dangerous combo.
It all makes perfect sense once you realize white supremacy & patriarchy are the things that they believe unites them as a "class." There are millions of average white guys making under $35,000 a year who are convinced they have more in common with Musk & Trump than they do anyone else.
And it it wasn't for some amorphous "problem" of women & minorities going to college & having jobs & getting promotions and such... then they too would probably already be a m/billionaire as is their destiny as white guys.
The pundits define “elite” to include a blue-haired barista with a used Prius and $30k in student debt, but exclude the literal richest man on the planet.
You have a different understanding of elitism from them.
To you it means the group with the political and financial capital, who live and work in exclusive spaces with no concerns about costs or consequences.
To them it means the snooty people who make me feel poor, stupid, and tell me I'm racist.
Yes. The late night talk show hosts have normalized the behavior of kicking down at the lower social classes and the middle class has followed their example of kicking down.
Of course, Trump & his billionaires are the elite in a financial sense but the "elite" people are supposedly fed up with are the educated & intellectual (and metropolitan) who are perceived to talk down to them. Trump is seen as one of their own because he's despised & rejected by the same "elite"
Yep. And educated doesn’t mean college or university. It’s willing to learn. My uncle is a conservative and he proudly voted Harris in AZ. No college education, blue collar working class retiree. He had neighbors telling him he was an elitist.
When people read "the wealthiest of ppl" they may think "tech billionaires". But don't forget the legacy billionaires from Fossil Fuel. The Trump Administration may bring a DISASTROUS economic boom to the US based on fossil fuel https://photos.app.goo.gl/KFYCu2dUZ3BcTA8Q9
Looking at the responses to this made me look up the most followed accounts and given Twitter being dominated by weird nazis, pretty dope that some of our foremost accounts are XKCD and Jamelle Bouie. And dril (also Neil Gaiman but just forget about that for a moment). Also Lula (lol)
The problem is perception. Those rich people have done a very good job of painting the Republicans as a working man's party and the Dems as people who only care about college-educated elitists who keep "normal" people in their place.
To me it brakes down to people prefer to be dump and stupid. They want to be ignorant and have someone else tell them what to do. Thinking is too hard. Hopefully after a while this wears thin.
Culturally Dems are more aligned with the elite. The right used to have Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston and Reagan! a bunch of right wing movie projects in the 80s spoke to them. Now they have Ted Nugent and the pillow dude and have been mocked mercilessly for that
Yes but have you considered that Obama wore a tan suit and ordered Dijon mustard one time? Surely he is more of an elitist than the richest man on the planet!
Most Americans seem blind to the caste system that we reside in. What really gets me is how manipulative and cold-blooded the whole thing is. Playing on people’s fears, while offering no solutions other than a return to the fears of an earlier time.
I'm tired of dimwitted pundits and am going to let their ratings go to ground as they try to frame themselves as "heroic" for "reporting" the chaos that they caused.
People seem to make these billionaireas half-gods. Maybe because they are struggling so much.
Democrats were saying,'we are like you'.
But many voters prefer to believe in an impossible dream. Maybe.
Lack of critical thinking and a lack of sense of reality are some of the problems, in my opinion.
Our society has always pushed our smart hard-working people to lead us into a better material and moral future. People who haven't done the work think their ignorant views are equivalent to the people who did the work? What kind of future can they create?
This is so dead on correct it makes my head hurt. Was thinking today about jobs/companies/careers and there are lots of folks who just…don’t want to do that path
To not elevate hate & willful ignorance & vulgarity is to be an elitist I guess. Count me in. And Black women were (once again) probably the most reliable group in Harris' camp, percentage wise. They're the elite? + Biden's policies were not elitist. Pls push back on this harmful soundbite. TY!
Campaign finance reform should be a top policy priority moving forward. It's worse now than it was when we last addressed the issue in the late 90s. Both sides hate all the corporate money, so it should be an easy policy position to sell and directly addresses part of the current problem.
listening to your episode with adam conover now and it is good -- it outlines the big issues but is totally accessible to anyone who wants to know what's going on
"a harder and an uglier world" is a good phrase, and it needs to be said more -- people are really drawing all kinds of fantasies about Trump's rule. just completely brainwashed by an american exceptionalism via reality tv
What do you foresee happening in America, during the next four years? Realistically I mean. I’ve read loads of different predictions but they all seem centered on the economy rather than the human story. What will happen if everything goes south & the economy tanks? Will his followers revolt?
my own thought is that there are lots who want to do better for each other and offer real support. i want to see how we build each other in these times. trump is a cult
In my experience, to most Trump supporters, elite = educated.
They sneer at people who read books, who go to the theatre, who support the arts, who care about the environment. I don’t know how you overcome that mindset.
you overcome that mindset by addressing their material conditions. the reason they find educated people worthy of contempt is because they don't think educated people have ever done anything good for them personally. give people food, shelter, and community and that perception will change.
But many Trump voters aren’t struggling. They have good jobs, nice homes, new cars. I have nothing but compassion for people who aren’t doing well rn. I think the Harris campaign didn’t do enough to engage with them & find out what they want & need from their government. But the others…are just 😞
I don’t think that’s the issue so much as that Trump has successfully told the working class that college educated ppl, liberal women, and LGBTQ community is why they are struggling to afford a house and pay bills. Democrats didn’t offer up an alternative villain- corporations and the rich.
Doesn’t help that the big blue states haven’t fixed the housing cost issues but have protected women/LGBTQ. Harris didn’t run on identity politics, which was smart, but she also didn’t make clear that GOP policy is responsible for corps and billionaires gutting the working and middle class.
Fair points, and I may be getting a skewer narrative here in the UK but I was under the impression she'd been quite shy about communicating through outlets that might appeal to red, working class voters.
She did go on right wing media, though. She had an interview on Fox, which is unabashedly partisan.
The problem is more the lack of time she had and it being infeasible for her to have interviews with Kirk or Shapiro. Dems are lacking new media infrastructure to counter the phalanx of RW sources.
I don’t think she had to go on right wing media, I just think she needed to give the wc voters someone to blame for their struggles to counter Trump’s narrative. And billionaires/corporations are right there, plus all the GOP policy that enables them at the expense of working class and poor ppl
Corruption to which the Party of Clinton responded by trying to get into the action.
Harris ended her campaign running as an alt-Republican and here we are — without an opposition of any use.
It's been aimed at universities for ages, so it always has been. I would assume it all goes back to antisemitism (the real kind, not the kind you get called for criticizing Bibi).
THose Elitest ask you to protect women and stop the dangers to Democracy. However normal ignorant Americans only cares about themselves and their pocketbooks. A little less than half choose RIGHT wing lies and disinformation.
Looks to me more like capital behaved effectively to squash the most left wing economic program since the ‘60s. Trump, the great hero of the working class (according to Bernie, it seems) wants a 100% tariff.
Suddenly I remembered when James Hetfield moved to CO because of those elitist liberals looking askance at him for hunting. And immediately reddit got busy explaining how salt-of-the-earth one of the world’s richest musicians is compared to randos in the Bay Area.
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Bible based Christianity and many leftist political ideologies see equality, inclusion and compassion as fundamental human values. Others feel differently. Who decides which “wins”?
US Constitution was supposed to be guiding document but no longer.
Somehow, Rs captured "the grind".
Only "elites" use big words, or math.
So I'll ask: What, and which, portion of T voters do you think this analysis applies to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone?wprov=sfti1#
We are still on the trickled down economics, any profit for the businesses, most blue color workers don't see a dime in raises.
I'm such a policy minded guy, I just can't understand going "yeah reality says this but vibes"
Takes overlooking a lot of criminality, theft, needless cruelty and lying to make the whole package OK and to vote for it, though.
Deprive them of ratings and you take away their money
Starve them
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFKYN6Hr/
—Isaac Asimov
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/what-do-we-do-now-the-coffee-klatch?r=52qrn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox
They lie all day long, and people are eating it up. The people who watch aren't interested in hearing anything else because they think anything else is all lies.
Reagan did a lot of shitty things, but abolishing the fairness doctrine may have been the most destructive of all.
And I was like "that guy is a billionaire and the 16th richest man on earth."
Crickets in response.
Just the dumbest fucking people.
And what happens after?
Oh Joy!
Media: A true populist movement
1) How do you know how I voted?
2) How do you know that I am not a registered Democrat?
3) How do you what issues that I am motivated by?
4) That this is considered an effective outreach to swing voters?
5) What kind of person am I?
6) Do you consider me an extremist?
Reality means Dems must be purer than GOP.
and show example of aluminum or food prices
no really
war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
same as it ever was
I sometimes read things where I have to stop and work out exactly where what I'm reading are coming from.
Its why you should block CNN, Bash, and Tapper, to start, right now.
What are tariffs? 🙄
To you it means the group with the political and financial capital, who live and work in exclusive spaces with no concerns about costs or consequences.
To them it means the snooty people who make me feel poor, stupid, and tell me I'm racist.
Its like there’s kryptonite dust in the air that progressive journalists are breathing in
Their inferiority complex is killing the planet
Resentful of their own perceived inadequacies
Democrats were saying,'we are like you'.
But many voters prefer to believe in an impossible dream. Maybe.
Lack of critical thinking and a lack of sense of reality are some of the problems, in my opinion.
Not buying what they are selling.
Screw that elitism talk.
my own thought is that there are lots who want to do better for each other and offer real support. i want to see how we build each other in these times. trump is a cult
They sneer at people who read books, who go to the theatre, who support the arts, who care about the environment. I don’t know how you overcome that mindset.
The problem is more the lack of time she had and it being infeasible for her to have interviews with Kirk or Shapiro. Dems are lacking new media infrastructure to counter the phalanx of RW sources.
Harris ended her campaign running as an alt-Republican and here we are — without an opposition of any use.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/donald-trump-cabinet-richest-in-us-history-historians-say/
I'm just disappointed how successful this ham-handed influence op has turned out to be.
“Democrats abandoned the working class”.
Looks to me more like capital behaved effectively to squash the most left wing economic program since the ‘60s. Trump, the great hero of the working class (according to Bernie, it seems) wants a 100% tariff.