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Venting and preening and self-absorption will transform society.

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@DanaHoule I would do LG. Still planning on signing out here

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@ewarren Elizabeth, Whatever you do, rule out a presidential run again as soon as possible to give us our best chance.

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@JustinWolfers Or both, depending. I think it's the most significant factor out there. Many people are very bad at attribution, and the news environment does not help.

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@magi_jay Well put. This may at least in part a new version of an old phenomenon.

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@shannonrwatts In terms of ignorance, this election is no different than any of the last 50. There are always ignorant people. Find a better ground for thinking about what went wrong and what to fix

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

Three very difficult truths on election post-mortems

1. "Dems could have won if they'd only done X." Everyone has a version of this. But in virtually every case they *did* do X, often to an unprecedented degree. Economic populism, working class wages, abortion. $200m ads on the economy. If you're asking why she didn't message on X, the answer is she did, relentlessly; it just didn't hit your blue bubble twitter feed.

2. It actually did work! In states where both Harris and Trump campaigned heavily, she outperformed national trends by D+3 to D+5. That's huge!

3. But was overwhelmed by an R+6 swing that blew through every state and demo. This is consistent with the anti-incumbent swing hitting every developed democracy on earth. Tactical campaign choices cannot explain a global trend. And it is extremely difficult to imagine a campaign that could've overcome it.

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@kevhof52 @JesseJenkins Yes and shambadoo boo to you too! You make a lot of sense

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

My discussion of the imminent second Trump presidency and its implications for the global climate fight, with references to the Fermi Paradox, Rod Serling, The Planet of the Apes and The Lord of the Rings, via @BulletinAtomic: https://t.co/uoV9Ci25Qt

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@frischa @fawfulfan Caving to anti-Semitism w walz? That's bizarre. That's an analysis by misnformed political nerds

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@Schnorkles If it's sustained, maybe something might happen in time for the next election, which will have a smaller electorate These guys do not believe in backlashes. They did not believe 2018 would happen.

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@chervokas Well we really have been for 10 years now. It has been getting worse and It would help to make corrections to the media ecosystem, if possible. Otherwise it comes down to new strategy and there's always lessons to learn

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@SusanKarpatkin @DanaHoule Brown was always on borrowed time due to demographics. I was hoping for one more term, it was do-able

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@DanaHoule @billypilgr6508 I wasn't watching ads. Was what you saw. Not correlated with what she said on the stump? If not, what were her TV spots like?

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@DanaHoule @billypilgr6508 Maybe 107 days was not enough.

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@SamTRicketts They may figure that out when a recession hits, caused by ridiculous economic policies.

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@JesseJenkins No solution for media other than a benevolent Murdoch. No one stepped up - this is not a new need

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@caseyphillips @QuinHillyer @stuartpstevens @BillKristol @JoeNBC @mattklewis @RobGeorge Enjoy. I'm sure there will never be a backlash and you will never lose an election. I'm sure it's all permanent

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@johnmsides The media ecosystem as currently constructed s an obstacle to anyone other than Republicans.

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@JaneAFlegal It's going to take a serious grasstops campaign, with money and organization

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@Angry_Staffer Everybody needs to tell their state and local officials that they want clean energy transmission. They want that battery plant. They want to be part of the energy economy.