@speechboy71 He's a sociopath. The image of him I still can't shake is the thumbs up smiling picture with the baby whose parents had just been murdered in El Paso
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
@ezraklein You had a guy on your podcast who clearly and methodically noted that Jews are not owed that courtesy. You may not agree but you gave voice to such an opinion. I guarantee you someone was persuaded by him. Either be part of the soul or be part of the problem.
@BernieSanders It's time to shuffle off the stage with some of your dignity intact. Aping a bunch of terrorist sympathizers is not going to get you the juice you had back in 2016
@SpencerHakimian This is so incredibly spot on. I would add that Democrats confused the loud voices of their vocal minority for the opinion of the majority of Democrats and thought shifting to those positions was equally viable.
The problem that Republicans face is that because they’ve remade their entire identity around a cult of personality for one of the most disloyal and dishonest humans to have ever existed, they are constantly making a fool of themselves.
Defending DOGE’s failures, defending tariffs, defending government expansion, pretending Epstein List doesn’t matter anymore, ignoring rule of law, etc.
The problem that Democrats face is that because they failed to deliver on the issues they are popular on (guns, abortion, health care, student debt, climate, etc.) they shifted to topics they greatly overestimated their popularity on (trans sports, illegal immigration, DEI, etc).
The problem that regular Americans face is that because we live in a two party system, we constantly get ping ponged back and forth between the 2 incompetent and inept forms of governing.
And no one is happy.
And nothing ever changes.