@beetlemoses Well, well, well, if it isn’t Mr. Blue Flavor himself. To take an innocent life and then see if he could kick it with the boys without skipping a beat… Makes me sick 😭
Plenty of R infighting this week, but not sure I’ve ever seen a Republican here ask “Hey can we learn anything from the New England Republican governors”
@tracewoodgrains Why haven’t we had a debate on this topic? I mean a high-profile, televised one with the sharpest minds on both sides of this argument going head-to-head to settle this topic once and for all? Certainly, there must be enough data over the past few elections to know who is right?
I really hope someone does challenge Schumer — the party deserves to hear, in some detail, from someone in the “Fight Club” wing what their plan is to maximize the number of wins on this 2028 senate map and drive a stake through the heart of MAGA.
I think the inability of leftists to acknowledge the plain truths about the role of ideology in determining election outcomes is part of the badness of leftwing politics because a lot of what's bad about the left is downstream of poor epistemic practices.
To be sincere for a moment.
To everyone who volunteered, who donated, who knocked on doors, who talked to friends or family members, who protested and who voted. Thank you for participating in democracy. Thank you for being part of the great tradition of liberalism.
We have a republic, if we can keep it. I think it's worth fighting for and I'm glad so many people out there think the same way
I think political debates about electability would be clearer if people would just admit that they are willing to bear some losses or slimmer margins in pursuit of their policy goals. That's totally reasonable! I am too!
Then we can have a debate about whether those losses are worth it.
For instance -- Dems passed the Civil Rights Act and lost the South. FDR won Assad-level margins in part by eschewing racial liberalism (see: anti-lynching bills). Republicans spent 50 years trying to overturn Roe and paid for it at the ballot box.
The relevant questions are: a) Is what you're losing votes for worth it b) do you lose *so* many votes that you can't even enact policy c) are you spurring a backlash that wipes out gains that you made?
he gets a lot of shit on here but credit where credit is due: @mattyglesias has been hammering the need for social moderation over and over and basically every successful Senate candidate listened to him