Yes it is @nytimes
So is hiring double the campaign lawyers as we had in 2020
So is a national ground game with tens of thousands of volunteers
So is building 3M housing units
So is cutting taxes for the middle class
So is a national ban on price gouging
So is restoring Roe if we flip the House
So is increasing the number of drugs eligible for price negotiations
So is removing tax benefits for corporate landlords who buy single family housing in bulk
So is a tax credit for builders who sell to first time home buyers
Expanding the earned income tax credit
Capping insulin at $35 for everyone
Banning corporate landlords from using price fixing tools
Increasing the child tax credit
Extending ACA subsidies
Anyone who has anything other than kind words for Gus Walz will prove the point that they’re the bad guys. Because if you see that love, and your reaction is hate, you’re a small person with an evil heart. #TeamGus
WOW—I need all the children to be okay. The poor children of inner city Atlanta, the poor children of Appalachia, the children of Israel, the children of Gaza, children of Congo, children of Haiti, the children of Ukraine, we need all children to be okay…
For years and years I’ve been preaching that sitting around talking about how we’re going to lose is a good way to indeed lose, because it lulls folks on our side into not bothering to put in the work required to win, and signals to fence sitters that they might as well just get on board with inevitable Republican rule.
When you’re dealing with a competitive race, the way you win is to talk about how you’re going to WIN. It motivates everyone on our side to go out and put in the kind of work required to win. And it signals to fence sitters that they should get on board with our winning movement, because the other side is a bunch of losers.
For the most part the Democratic Party understands this concept and tries to employ it. But the majority of the enthusiasts and activists on our side (in other words the kind of people who are reading this right now) do NOT get it. I’ve spent years trying to drill the point home, but to my eternal frustration, I’ve only ever been able to get through to a fraction of the people on our side who need to hear it. The majority of people on our side want to stare at their screens in fear, talk about how we’re doomed, and pretend that such behavior is “vigilance.”
And then suddenly Kamala Harris steps into the race and in three weeks she’s managed to convince just about EVERYONE on our side that we should be talking about how we’re going to win, that we should feel joyful about it, that we should use it to motivate ourselves and others to make the kind of effort required to win.
Kamala Harris has accomplished in three weeks what I’ve been trying to preach for nine years. And I couldn’t be more excited. It is so thrilling to look through my timeline and see nothing but people who are talking about winning and are looking to put in the effort required to win.
No one is looking to stare at their screen all day in panicked fear, so the media is having to move on from those tactics. No one is buying the notion that talking about how we’re doomed makes us vigilant, and so the pundits who sell that schlock are having to find a different approach.
Talking about how we’re going to win is what creates the momentum that allows us to win. Imagine that. This is a sea change, and I’ve been waiting for it for a long, long time. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Now let’s go win this.