Another white gay lawyer. Movies, pasta, sour candy, bar trivia, musical theater, politics, YIMBYism. Minnesota by way of Wisconsin. Can’t grow a beard.
In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD
@sullyhasthots@rp_kearney saw another version of this take that i liked: when people’s wages go up, they think they deserve it, so it doesn’t register as external; when costs of goods go up, it’s inexplicable and impersonal, so it engenders far more frustration