Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist.
John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist.
Obama won in 2008 posturing as a progressive. (But then lost both houses of Congress after being exposed as a centrist)
Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist.
The Dems need to begin abandoning centrism.
Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200k/year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
This is the main problem with the post-truth online information ecosystem in a nutshell.
A MAGA user claimed last night that Democratic politicians "Blinken, Rice Nuland and Vindman" had a conference call with Zelensky on his flight to Washington and advised him to "stand strong" and be "tough" against Trump, which directly led to the argument with Trump and Vance in the Oval Office.
She cites no source or evidence for her claim and goes on to admit she was merely "speculating".
Three hours later, another MAGA users rehashes that claim, saying "rumour has it" that those four Democrats did this and therefore violated the Logan Act.
Again, no evidence is provided for this claim at all, but the tweet goes viral.
This morning, major MAGA user amuse with 560,000 followers tweets the same claim as a news story, this time saying Obama was also directly involved and Zelensky was told to reject the minerals deal.
Once again, zero source or evidence is provided by amuse, but the tweet racks up 1.7 million views.
Finally this morning, Trump's envoy Richard Grenell shares the same claim, saying it's "very serious", meaning this claim has now reached the president's senior aides.
At no point throughout this entire cycle has any of these users bothered to simply ask: "Is there any source or evidence for this?"
And now, millions of people likely believe this is true. That Zelensky, on the advice of senior Democrats, scuppered the minerals deal and got into an argument with Trumo and Vance.
There's still no source or avidence that this actually happened. But evidence no longer seems to matter in the post-truth online information ecosystem.
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings.
We outnumber the oligarchs.
And they can be overwhelmed.
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