The assumption that there’s zero possibility left wing voters could be inspired and brought into the tent to be political assets strikes me as an incredible loser’s mentality. Maybe they could help us win?
Also the idea that charisma doesn’t matter is just laughable. Trump didn’t win on issues, he won on being Trump. Obama didn’t win on issues, he won (in a landslide!) on being Obama.
And I worry that a candidate who doesn’t keeps the White House red. A large part of Trump’s support comes from people who know that Business As Usual isn’t working, and Trump offers a change from that. They’re wrong about why it’s not working, of course, but they’re right that it’s not working. Those voters will be attracted by a hard-left candidate or a hard-right one, and will vote against any moderate.
Obama’s biggest fault was that he was too mainstream. He tried to respond to unprecedented Republican moves with the same old tactics.
For starters, we now have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court who believes that democracy doesn’t matter, including two actual rapists.
“The Frog Party should really keep trying to get the Scorpion vote. Forget about what happened in 2016 and 2020 and 2024. It will all work out this time. I should know, I’m a scorpion!”
They voted Dem overwhelmingly in '08, strongly in '12 and '20, and still majority in '16 and '24. And you still see them as the enemy? It’s nuts. A group that’s strongly but not perfectly Democratic, that has been overwhelmingly Democratic at times in the past couple of decades, and could maybe be the difference between winning and losing.
Sounds to me like a big tent Democratic constituency, as long as we don’t deliberately try to oppose them.
One thing to bear in mind though is that progress in some social areas does not necessarily mean a general “leftward” move. You can be pro-LGBT/pro-choice/pro-vax AND pro-gun/anti-immigrant/pro-fossil-fuel. The clever trick on the RW has been to be much more effective convincing people that if they support the latter set of policies, they MUST oppose the former.
If this was true, the Trumpy congressional districts represented by Democrats would have leftist House members. Instread they are represented by moderates and centrists like Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Newsom: Isn’t it great how Trump is starving the people of Cuba and threatening to take over their country?
Not at all what Newsom said. Try a less biased and bogus cite next time.
“You see, when Newsom said he appreciates and admires how Trump has imposed a blockade that has caused Cuba’s power grid to fail and is bringing on a famine because it makes it easier to impose a new government on them, what he REALLY meant was…”
Listen to the recording of what he actually said. “I appreciate in one respect… the situation regarding Venezuela..”
In response to a question about Cuba.
Well, he won the GOP nomination that year, 1992, but he lost that fall.
Here you go. I posted there: Is cursive dying?