The entire Dem leadership cadre needs to start stepping aside. They have failed to recognize how things have changed, and are well prepared to fight the GOP of the 1990s. Shit has changed, idiots, and you need to hand the reins over to folks like AOC and Hogg. Stop sidelining them, start paying attention to the canary in your goddamned coalmine.
Your reply is a non sequitur.
Not to praise MAGA or anything, but this is part of why the GOP wins more than it should: their voters swallow their misgivings and turn out for them. Dem voters will jettison all support on the merest wafting zephyr of news they don’t entirely like.
You don’t want sheep, but you want voters who can get on the bus when the election comes around. You want to fight to upgrade the party between cycles, but once primary season is over, get on the bus and vote.
They thrive on our hate.
Trump never ever has the least idea of what he’s talking about.
Nothing says “small dick” like Trump calling for the government to bully someone who hurt his feels.
The US has a lot of citizens in Israel, and a lot of Israeli citizens with families in the US, so it’s hard to turn from the historic unconditional support to conditional support or even lack of support. No matter who is in office, the reality of this is strong.
Just the same as the NATO countries are finding it complicated decoupling from the MAGA US. It’s not so simple to unwind national relationships. It would be nice if it was easy, but it just isn’t, especially in a democracy where there’s a significant fraction of voters who are unmoved by the Gaza disaster. It’s sad but true.
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
The oath of office has one stipulation. Just one.
He’s taken it twice. He’s such an evil man.
…they said, hopefully.
There is absolutely nothing I said that says I’m a centrist. You’re an example of the problem.
This guy gets it.
I have noticed this trend. On the one hand, “Truth has a liberal bias” has always been true. If a community is geared towards truth and evidence, like as not it will lean left. There is copious evidence for this, for any random topic.
On the other hand, it has resulted in a lot of “I downvote complexity” behavior, which is, in my view, problematic. It is very easy to take stances of ideological purity online, and behave as if any recognition of greater complexity is EVIL!!1! I see this again and again. This is a way to make your ideological movement irrelevant and unworkable.
As much as folks decry the rigor of the MAGA right, where fealty to Trump is the only virtue, the Progressive left exhibits the exact same rigor, the exact same intolerance for deviation from its allies. Both Progressives and MAGAts see this as a virtue, but it very much is not: it locks you into a worldview that eliminates important complexity and any ability to see things from alternate perspectives. If you have a belief that your perspective is the only correct one, then the vast majority of the time, you’re wrong.
128 Democrats join House Republicans to defend fascist dictator