Exited my fan brain torture chamber to write (what I hope) was a more objective analysis of the Giannis saga, pending Jaylen trade, and what to expect moving forward.
https://t.co/RJKsYkt3Qa
These guys love acting like hardened realists about Medicare for All but if some senator came out with “we need to ABOLISH single-family zoning,” a far less popular position, they’d nut their khakis right off. They only act this way about M4A—perhaps bitter that people like it?
Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.
Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.
Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?
Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?