witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

do that for one year and come back to me and see how support compares to the decades that have been spent in pursuit of reagan republicans/security moms/maga moms. support your base, nurture them, and tell me its really inferior to reaching to the mythical middle. i dare you.

i have a modest proposal for the dems: pander to the left for one calendar year. for one year, just court your base. talk about every issue from the pov of the center left to the far left. give no space to the gop. deride their positions as out of touch and extreme. never mention bipartisan.

If me yelling at Republicans worked, everything would have been solved in the 90s.

We're always being told to "work within the system". Well, those voters did, expressing disapproval of Dems rolling over for Israel (NOT for the GOP) by withholding their vote.

A big part of the party's war against progressives is constantly admonishing voters to never ever vote our values in any general election because /insert existential threat here/.

You may be wondering why it's anyone else's problem that these companies gambled themselves into potential bankruptcy. The answer may be stupider than you think

i've been noticing english media refer to Turkey as "Türkiye" more and more recently, when are we going to start calling it "Nippon" instead of Japan

according to reactionary centrists, it is a gross injustice for the left to run third parties or to run in primaries

If buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft

They thought Trump’s election would cow the base of the party into abandoning principles.

The concept of seniority in Democratic politics needs to die

If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...

1 million years ago we seem to understand that it was the literal job of politicians and campaigns to win elections. Now we seem to have pivoted to a view where voters are responsible for any election loss and our job is to just wish they had voted differently.

These people get so pissed off at the idea that Democrats should offer positions and policies that earn votes

for about the last 10 years they used the term "do something" derisively, like it was some extraordinary request of superhuman power

the left never made a peep when dems pushed people like jon tester in montana, but demanding slightly more progressive representation is "destroying the party"

the political job of the democrats is to beat republicans. if george w bush and donald trump both win twice youre not doing your fucking job.

It's funny how many mainstream Dems are eager to defend their leadership & castigate voters. As if the Dem powerful aren't paid huge salaries to strategize & win elections, but it all the fault of people who volunteer to vote for free. It doesn't even seem like the leadership will put in the effort.

i dont think people should have stayed home in 2024. i also dont think dems should have taken that bloc of voters for granted in 2024. since 2024 the dems have rolled over for the gop, doubling down on the do-nothing strategy that got us here. what are those voters supposed to do?

Correct. Why has it always been acceptable to support right leaning Democrats to get a win, but not left leaning Democrats?

I guess you should strategically nominate the most left wing candidate possible and pander to the left to win. Or do you want our vote for nothing?

Do this everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

"It can't win in Red States" Motherfucker YOU aren't winning in Red States, so

"Yes but unlike these radical socialists I am willing to beat Republicans by joining them."

Democrats continually throw members of their coalition under the bus. It's like in the Middle East where Trump tried to get the Kurds to fight for him and they remembered his track record and said hell no. It comes back to haunt you.

I heard from a senior Dem operative with access to the presidential campaign during the 2024 cycle the dismissive “they have nowhere else to go so they have to support us” take on Muslim voters in Michigan. Those voters stayed home and Trump won the state.

My own personal birthright to American citizenship came literally one Supreme Court vote away from being stripped away yesterday. That vote was in place because of Democratic Party weakness vs multiple Republican presidential nominees. “Just trust us” is no longer enough.

maybe im crazy but i dont see any issue with the dem base constantly nominating candidates that push popular positions and also theyre all sexy

This is the constant argument in favor of going with moderate milquetoast. Which doesn’t win.

And if you don’t want to do that because you’re stubborn and don’t want to “lower yourself” to that well then we’re going to keep losing but you get to keep lecturing, I suppose.

You can lecture people until the cows come home that they HAVE TO vote Dem because we have a two party system. People like me clearly agree with you. But most people aren’t like us and all the lecturing will not make them vote as much as pandering and coddling them on the issues they care about.

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

If your party loses *four times* to George W Bush and Donald Trump, all is not well.

Throw the bums out

Some Dems who lose primaries are gonna be mostly fine Dems with decent voting records. Too bad. The party, and most importantly the country, are in crisis. Things must change.

I think the phrase is "throw the bums out"

There is now set to be at least eight democratic socialists in Congress. Melat Kiros – alongside Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Chris Rabb – will join Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

These mothe fuckers have been ruling over us our entire lives If that's democracy what good is it?

Melat Kiros was born in the same year that DeGette first won election to the House. Wild.

This is such horseshit. The Democrats refused to do what was necessary when we handled them a trifecra. You can't blame people for noticing. We begged, we screamed, we voted and the democrats told us to fuck off. Still no one in power is saying they'll do what's needed. Fuck you

On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link) Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.

it feels so good to see someone finally just say this stuff in a mainstream publication. i didn't know how much i needed it

Jefferies and Schumer making it very clear that they are very much not up to the challenge, as they view the birthright citizenship ruling as a big win rather than an ominous warning of the future

Currently going mad viral on TikTok

Is that why your faction lost to Trump twice? Because you lot know how to win elections?

i frequently grind my teeth about what i find to be unproductive complaints about various elected democrats but you can have jared polis, call him whatever you want, he fucking sucks and this is how he deserves to end his political career

The problem is what some people want is wrong and what the left wants is right. There is no coming together with racist madmen.

Ezra Klein says to himself "Look everyone just wants what they think is best for the country" then trys to accept everyone on good faith. Which means he'll listen to monstrous liars who want monstrous things and try to understand how we can come together.