I would add that Tr*mp has never been popular and the GOP has been widely hated for years. The real story of American politics for the last 15-20 years is the refusal or inability of the Democratic Party to deliver the changes demanded by its voters. The country itself is blue.
JADE praises Raye via British GQ:
“Before I met Raye properly, she wrote for Little Mix, and so I already knew of her as an incredible songwriter. I do believe that she is a one-of-a-kind, generational talent. She manages to bridge the gap between the nostalgia and glamour of artists like Diana Ross and Etta James – she has that flair – but with such an innovative writing style, which is so modern and so her.”
@JADEtearoom the way i used to meticulously check jade’s monthly listeners hoping it would jump. it was 1.4m before AOMD blew up, never thought I’d see this. go girl!
One thing Dems should be very wary of is a repeat of the 2000s, where they did extremely well in 2006 and 2008 only to fall flat in crucial 2010, allowing the GOP to redraw state legislatures and congressional seats for the next decade.
Imagine if you died and your political party attempted to turn you into an icon and a martyr on the scale of MLK or RFK and then 18 months later they lost a Senate seat in Mississippi for the first time in 60 years
Despite a continued lack of radio support, JADE’s ‘Angel Of My Dreams’ spends a second consecutive week charting on the Billboard Hot 100 at #95. 🇺🇸
🔗: https://t.co/QvKHj7kD4d
It's much worse than that, actually. The middle class was a 50 year fluke that was dependent BOTH on a fear of communism and a material superabundance from chewing through the natural resources and fossil fuels of an entire planet. Once the resources are gone, it's over.
The neoliberal economic order was built on the premise that life's essentials (housing, food, utilities) may get way more expensive but at least all the fun imported junk that makes that more bearable (consumer electronics, sports gear, etc...) is fairly cheap.
What now?
Yep.
Massive electoral overpeformers like James Talarico ran as far away from Bernie’s message as possible — lambasting a rigged economic system that makes it impossible for working people to get by, calling out the greed of billionaires and advocating raising their taxes, focusing on a top-versus-bottom vs. left-versus-right division, raising the minimum wage, getting big money out of politics…
HEY WAIT A MINUTE
Israeli-born GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson presents former Mossad head David Barnea with an award in New York for his "extraordinary service" to the State of Israel.