Archie Macdonald

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@Thehuck_59 @jennyrenb @Peston Not even Harold Wilson was dealt the kind of hand Starmer was given and he blew it.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@Thehuck_59 @jennyrenb @Peston Punishing Abbott and Corbyn and blocking Burnham from running are among the most visible examples of Starmer's truculent, self-defeating leadership. He had 400 seats handed to him but managed to dig his own political grave.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@jennyrenb @Peston So you think Starmer's governance can be characterized as "centre-left"? He's the most right-wing leader the Labour Party has ever had. Mrs. Thatcher would take credit.

He won the leadership by pledging to be the soft-left candidate, with a manifesto to the left of Burnham's.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@JohnRentoul What do you think Professors McKenzie and Butler would say about the Starmer-Burnham drama?

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@WokeMaelle @Daniel24911520 @PatrickSvitek Yes, let's not forget the Dem establishment geniuses who spent funds in the 2016 GOP primaries to undermine Jeb Bush and boost Trump.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@AaronBlake Any PUMA sightings?

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@axios Can you please interview some 2016 superdelegates to tell us why Platner outperforming every single one of his polls is actually a really bad thing?

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@daveweigel Dave, please keep us apprised of any PUMA sightings or anti-majoritarian hot takes from ex-superdelegates.

We depend on you.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@daveweigel There were only one or two polls with Platner polling 70 or above, even after Mills dropped out. Anything north of that seems like post-primary consolidation.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@TheMaineWire The Maine Wire: All The Sentence Fragments Fit to Print

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@umichvoter Gear up for a couple of days of anti-majoritarian hot takes.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@Elex_Michaelson @CNN @SteveHiltonx @XavierBecerra @TomSteyer Elex, can you ask Steyer why he didn't give away all but $300 million of his wealth first, and then run and spend the $200 million? If he'd said, "I agree with Bernie and AOC that billionaires shouldn't exist," he probably would have gotten their endorsements and finished first.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@mkraju Should have given away all but $300 million of it first, then spent the $200 million. He could have been a billionaire who said "I agree with Bernie and AOC, billionaires shouldn't exist" and probably would have finished 1st.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@justicedems @MaiForUs They've called her Do-Nothing Doris for twenty years, but someone finally had the courage to do something and replace her with a more effective representative.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@daveweigel Surely AOC's advisers looking at this year's CA primaries and the 2024 primary have to think a dynamic outsider with high name-id would have a decent chance of humbling a favorite son (or daughter) in 2028.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@daveweigel Agree, but other than Newsom and people named Brown, the party's gubernatorial candidates of the past 60+ years seem sub-par in comparison to other states, or the talent the CA GOP used to produce. I think Harris freezing the field may have played a role here too.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@natashakorecki Most on-message politician in history.

[Archie Macdonald @MiddleClassDem]

@ZhouJaron Grasping this point would require that the aggrieved people crying fraud conduct an immense amount of research about the blue-shift in late mail ballots in CA primaries over the past decade.

Or just ask a chatbot to explain what happened.

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