The country will be in a much better place once the pmc and the revolutionary guard of woke wine moms are in full control of the Democratic Party and the federal government, and are permitted to govern in some of the very ways conservatives fear monger about.

If the Team Fight lib-left coalition wants to be in control of the party and the federal government come January 2029, it’s not enough to create a power vacuum— they have to actively work to seize control once it opens.

For people that whined endlessly about “political correctness” and MeToo, conservative and reactionary centrist media heads are the biggest snowflakes imaginable. Just a bunch of morally bankrupt nepo-babies who can’t stand it when unions get benefits or trans people have healthcare.

The funny thing is while I did not care for TLJ originally, I did not hate it either, and have since become negatively polarized into appreciating the good parts about it because the Trumpers/Gamergaters hated it so much. Perfectly fine being honest about hack partisanship.

this is... actually completely accurate, Pritzker absolutely knows ball basically the only thing you can quibble with is whether you want to swap RotS/TFA or Solo and Phantom, but I think I agree on both placements no wonder the man had custom jedi robes made

"there's no point comparing two possible realities when they're both worse than my imaginary daydream" is the left-wing implementation of Everyone Is Twelve Theory

This is the funniest fucking thing Ive seen today

The fact that they decided to bully Star on Trans Day of Remembrance has me thinking the dogpiling was intentional, but the perpetrators are also morons who likely wouldn’t know what that is if asked on a different day of the year. The shameless pursuit of clout truly spans the political spectrum.

This is the right take. As much as I like AOC, she needs to run for Senate. Any half-decent aggressive liberal can win the presidency. Prez is one office. A very powerful one, but a big part of 2029 needs to involve reasserting power in the legislature, so the Senate needs more fighters.

The Senate is an antidemocratic dinosaur of an institution and should be abolished in favor of a greatly expanded House (1000+ members) with multimember districts.

Removing the filibuster is the moderate position.

The behavior of legacy media editorial boards is going to drive your median No Kings attendee to say and feel things that would make Jay Jones’ bad office joke look like child’s play.

Welcome, Woke II. www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

It’s why they are crashing out over Tuesday, because it proved their perceived rivals correct that Trump is an unpopular, racist, dementia-riddled moron puppeted by fascist groypers, that GOP policies suck ass, and they don’t want to admit they were stupid enough to support it all.

The elites who pushed this permanent realignment narrative mainly did so because the idea of a Republican majority gives them permission to be condescending assholes to their Woke children, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews who had the gall to tell them they were wrong during Trump I/Biden.

Still kinda crashing out in a good way over NJ running only like a point and a half behind VA. I figured VA would be to the left of NJ but the gap would be larger, like 4-6 pts. Both states just went full lib and every county swung left. Absolutely incredible.

Virginia 2008: Look, guys, how bout we give the Democrats a chance? Virginia 2025: The stain of secession shall be washed with the tears of the orange fascist, by hand of the wine mom and her gender non-conforming child.

I don’t know what is more pleasantly shocking to me—Sherrill outperforming polls by anywhere from 5-10 pts, outrun Andy Kim, and be a point or two from both Spanberger and Murphy’s 2017 win, Or that Jay Jones is going to outrun Kamala Harris.

Media elites cannot fathom the Democratic Party’s future as a diverse coalition because elites’ lack of civic virtue prevents them from understanding an institution where people with divergent backgrounds still have responsibilities to one another.

I think the reason why pundits are trying to find a magic formula for winning is because they are jealous that the median voter is the deciding factor in elections and they aren’t. They think if you can control the median voter, you can control the election, but they can’t be controlled.

I think it’s too early to declare who you think is going to be the nominee in 2028, even if you have 1-2 candidates you might prefer right now. But I think it’s also important to consider that Governors and Congresspeople have different powers and responsibilities, and thus are tested differently.

“Everyone is 12” theory vindicated again. This is downstream of Trump winning 2x but also him being the dominant force in American politics for 10 years: he is absolutely shameless and gets rewarded for it, so naturally, others across the political spectrum want that reward for themselves.

There’s a crisis in America where no one takes responsibility for their own actions. It’s why the political/religious right is so poisoned but it’s also behind all the worst parts of the center and left. People talk about bringing back shame, and yes that’d help, but we also need to reject DARVO.

This is the reason why the whole dem consultant autopsy reports are basically useless because voters are chaotic neutral and often pick based on vibes and politically incoherent reasons.

Campaigning is more akin to cooking than baking. It’s an art, not a science. What constitutes a “popular” or “moderate” position is not static. You can’t side with what the public thinks they want at one moment and expect to win. Swing voter rationale is often incoherent vibes, not ideology.

Last time this happened was probably 1929, and then people had to live through 3 years of the depression before Hoover got wiped in 1932 and FDR set off the fifth party system.

Funnily enough, I had been posing a version of “everyone is 12” to my friend group for months, though it was clumsily worded as “the defining split of the Trump era is between people who are willing to act like adults and accept responsibility within society and those who aren’t.”

Someone else said it first, but the simplest explanation is a divide between people who can admit they were wrong and people who can’t. Everyone is 12.

I am a single issue voter and that issue is I want the Republican Party in federal prison.

The most charitable explanation is that a guy with very poor judgment talked to his way into the progressive lane of a competitive primary. The least charitable is that he actually is a right winger trying to infiltrate the Dems to cause psychological harm to our coalition.

Yeah he’s on track to hit Biden levels unpopularity.

new gallup data comes out showing democrats taking a lead on trust to handle the economy, just as they emerge with an edge in national party ID www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-n...

I think Maine Dems watched Sara Gideon, the former speaker of the State House get pasted when they thought Collins would go down with Trump in 2020, and it had a chilling effect.

I suppose my stance is that there’s no way we get out of this intact if we do not take necessary risks or take unnecessary risks. The Nazi skull tattoo is an unnecessary risk.

Critical support to comrade Janet Mills (D-ME)

Maine statewide races currently in a state of having the elderly grandma, snippy concerned aunt, and “edgy” problematic cousin locked in the car with the keys while everyone else normal is afraid to get in and stop them from taking off.

the whole bench is in the gubernatorial race because everyone is afraid of collins and mills froze the senate primary. there are 5 extremely prominent dems in it

how do you not have a single person on your bench under 60 in a swing state with an aging GOP incumbent. how have you let the party apparatus languish like that

I think the problem here is that the list of proven Democrats in Maine is pretty short, Mills would be an impressive candidate in every way but one, and Collins has proved incredibly difficult to beat. But that one thing has been a pretty big sticking point for Dems lately

“Use competitive primaries to improve Team Fight margins in our Senate ranks” challenge. Primary voters need to vote the way their No Kings marches would indicate.

Why is getting a not-problematic and also not-ancient-and-pro-filibuster candidate to run in Maine so goddamn hard? Think maybe the House Speaker (Fecteau) might be the best option here. Everyone else is either too obscure or a scam PAC carpetbagger.

Whats happening in Broadview IL is less about “whether the Governor can tell ISP to leave and/or oppose ICE” and more a symptom that there is a deep, deep rot at the center of Civ-Mil relations regarding police oversight.

“They don’t want power. They want to endlessly critique power.”

I think this is also true. A key component in RW thought leaders investing heavily in podcasts and youth media was not just to undermine the libs’ advantage with young voters, it was to cut off the trend of younger *Republicans* becoming more socially liberal than their parents in the Obama years.

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

The one caveat I would add to this is that it is not a viable strategy *on its own*. Winning as many elections as possible *should* be part of a wider strategy that includes organizing as well as enforcement/creation of laws that shore up weaknesses and overhaul what isn’t working.

In other words, “the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.” “When truth leaves us… when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

“We live in a society” and “Everyone is 12” are complimentary halves of the best (imo) working theory of Trump-era politics.