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score one more for “when Gary Peters says or does something shitty it’s actually his genuine belief”
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completely fine to do imo
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this guy wins his district by 20 points and thinks the median voter in it is post-cucking Joe Scarborough, beyond pathetic
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“we didn’t try to make people care, and the fact that people don’t care proves we were right not to bother trying” is circular logic
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maybe “caring about investigating criminals” makes you lose 22 points of support
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like if Jason Crow sincerely believes it’s a distraction from real issues to hammer this shit then just pack the republic up because we don’t have one anymore
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either stop being animated by fear or go find another career that doesn’t demand leadership of you
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it just seems like what he’s expressing now is fear that America just wants to be like this forever now but even more fear to actually check if that’s true or not
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“you have less money now because the admin is stealing from you and we’re going to use the power you give us to hold them accountable for it” should be the easiest message in the world to sell, and if your voters don’t buy it then the country just fundamentally doesn’t want liberalism anymore
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I genuinely believe that “my voters only care about Kitchen Table Issues” is self-fulfilling defeatism and also that you can express genuine alarm with the administration without “moving left” and I don’t think anything is gonna push me off that
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"I would simply do what is already popular" is Matt Yglesias' thimble-deep 'popularism' belief and we know it doesn't work
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this orange line post 2020 is what happens when a political party has a belief system and articulates it rather than sitting around letting the polling tell them how to feel about something
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nah I'm keying off specifically Jason Crow pleading helplessness this morning about the idea of aggressively investigating corruption and criminality by the admin if dems ever take power back because he has pre-conceded that his voters only care about Kitchen Table Issues and don't want distractions
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the public also wasn’t anti-immigration in 2021 and now immigration is 30+ points underwater, “they don’t care about this” is a self-fulfilling prophecy deployed as an excuse not to bother trying
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sorry but prosecuting criminals doesn’t help the kitchen table conversations of family I made up in my head who coincidentally wants all the same things I want
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this is an inaccurate and unfair (in his favor) characterization of him telling a reporter that he doesn’t think “the voters” care about investigating this admin’s corruption and criminality
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yes the press actively telling the public to believe what republicans believe instead is an active hindrance but robotically repeating “Kitchen Table Issues” because you’re afraid to say what donald trump is doing is world-historically corrupt, illegal, and evil is just complete loser shit
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they think that “leadership” is being a carriage driver that lets the horses decide where to go
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"taking their temperature on what they care about" is such spineless horseshit, republicans got net support for immigration to drop 40 points in four years because they went out and articulated their own worldview rather than asked people for permission on which one to have
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don bacon crying to politico before going back to voting like a whipped dog for whatever trump and johnson want him to vote for doesn't really count as a "power struggle" to me
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my criticism of the party re: tariffs is that it's impossible for them to come up with a coherent message because of, for example, Bernie Sanders and every statewide Dem elected in Michigan trying to thread the needle of being "protectionist but not THAT protectionist"
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well for what it's worth the two most prominent tv spots that dem-aligned figures had yesterday were Sanders and Whitmer both essentially saying that trump was using poor tactics to execute a good strategy
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my main point here is the only audience for CSPAN is a captive one and even if people paid attention to it I don't think they (or any journalistic entity) believe that advancing the political goals of the democratic party is in their best interest
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I have a hot take here that we simultaneously have *too much* spirituality but also *not enough*, and the latter manifests itself as our society's toxic gambling addiction because we've subconsciously decided that "luck" is irrational woowoo and you can always win by being your own Analyst
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I reject the framing that "actually being upset with rampant corruption and illegality instead of trying to robotically pivot to Kitchen Table Issues" is a left vs center issue
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they know this which is why they're trying to create reality rather than reflect it
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it can be a party that wants to do that, but that party needs to have zero Jason Crows in it
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incidentally, Bob Woodward also once accused the Obama campaign of making death threats against him because he wrote something incredibly stupid and the campaign said he would regret writing it
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I believe a non-trivial number of people including journalists believe the market hit an all time record high yesterday
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well if they had full control over the choice it wouldn’t be an addiction
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literally a drug addiction