Why do people pretend there’s any meaningful difference between the two dots on the left?

It’s girlbosses vs. beta male in Texas

Jasmine Crockett: the electable candidate who mobilizes core Democratic constituencies and not crazy white liberals.

Despite the tough loss in NJ-11 last night, normie resistance libs can come back, we believe in you

Will 2026 swing seat Democrats have the courage to say they’ll abolish ICE? Bluesky demands answers.

Jasmine Crockett FIGHTS

It might not be aesthetically pretty but a new city like this in West Texas would simultaneously solve America’s housing shortage while giving people the kind of housing they want.

Democrats can't solve their problems with economic populism if it isn't also accompanied by cultural moderation. Pairing economic populism with cultural leftism does a net of 49 points worse overall, 27 points worse among persuadables.

Time for Dems who FIGHT. Platner El Sayed Crockett

The real fight in Democratic primaries isn’t exactly left vs. center. It’s Bro Socialist (Platner, Mamdani) vs. Wine Mom Resistance (Crockett, Mills).

Bernie Sanders was right when he agreed with President Trump that if you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.

Democrats should moderate just like Trump moderated the GOP by adopting positions taken by the old industrial unions.

Don’t listen to Jennifer Welch on what the Democrats should do. Listen to me.

It’s true, I’ve endorsed Deciding to Win. Either I’m sincere but I know that by going public Dems will do the opposite, or I’m being disingenuous and I actually think you should move left. Either way, Republicans win.

Democrats should talk about kitchen table issues and not democracy or institutions

“You can just do things” FDR 1933 🤝 Donald Trump 2025

Happy No Kings Day!

The debate about the future of the Democratic Party begins and ends with this photo. All they’ve gotta do is turn the clock back 30 years and do exactly what he did.

In a world of Jimmy Kimmels, be a Jimmy Fallon, a reliable stalwart of apolitical mainstream acceptability

The concerns you have for the death of democracy are invalid

Believing that 40% of your fellow countrymen are fascists, racists, bigots instead of something closer to 5% isn’t just misguided. It is hate.

Silence isn’t violence. Free speech isn’t violence. Disagreement isn’t violence. Only violence is violence.

Say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father.

I put together a 2028 Democratic primary model I'm excited to release today! www.patrickruffini.com/p/the-inters...

To win, Democrats need to simply move to the center.

‪Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Unhappiness is a feature of being on the left these days. A greater belief in societal ills is internalized, reinforced by being online 24/7. They talk often about right-wingers or Trump policies literally killing people. It’s no surprise we see the mental health gaps we do.

Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.

People don’t realize how big a national story Mamdani will be if he wins. Overnight, he’ll be turned into the leader of the Democratic Party. Progressives have no idea how bad he’s going to make them look.

Anyone who ranks Mamdani is complicit in antisemitism

There is nothing wrong with a traditional approach to schoolwork that emphasizes homework and where you can’t retake tests. It never needed to change.

This sane approach to identity politics got just 2 votes at the DNC.

Instead of renaming everything after the Current Thing, Dems should simply use language that everyone understands and which has broad public support to protect programs they want to keep.

If you can't see why Faiz is right on this, you are part of the problem. We need to stop being so obsessed with identity politics. It’s divisive, unpopular, & out-of-touch.

$17.8 million for “distributional and procedural equity” of the electric grid 🤡🤡🤡

A big part of the backlash to woke is that the story we used to tell about civil rights was a positive one about correcting past injustice but now it’s told in a negative and scolding tone even as more progress has been made.

“Equity” office in the Fairfax County, VA schools employs 52 and costs $6.4 million, enough to hire 125 new teachers. The head of it makes more than the Vice President and a U.S. Senator. www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/pri...

The next target after DEI should be the DSM-5. It should be a policy goal to end all the fake autism/ADHD diagnoses that are infantalizing our kids.

A Clintonesque plan for a Dem comeback: We agree with the cultural shift, especially on gender and DEI. We support closing the border. We're not going to litigate things that happened during Trump 1.0. Then go all in on attacking on populist economic issues like prescription drugs.

I wonder how @smotus.bsky.social accounts for the record number of Black men who left the party in 2024? Are we going to get articles soon about “racially resentful” Blacks just like this one about “white supremacist Latinos?” open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

The truth liberals need to hear: Biden was negligent on the border, especially early in his term

A good rule of thumb is if you don’t live in one of the blue counties, you live in a bubble.

In and of themselves, the reaction to the events of June 2015 were fine, but they really misled lots of people into thinking that the country was at heart culturally progressive.

Trump has a mandate to do whatever he wants on the border

🚩🚩🚩🚩 people who end their posts with “Do Better”

America now has more Republicans than Democrats: The end of an almost-century long era. (@patrickruffini.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241231