@WhickTv Additionally the standards you apply to the left apply to him too. The onus is on him to market himself to a broad electorate, including the left flank.
@WhickTv Looking through his wikipedia it looks impressive. However, local and federal politics are two different arenas, as is the electorate. As a state official his foreign policy opinions don't matter but as a national politician it would matter a lot and his positions are not liked.
@hutchinson @408romanski When they say she was too liberal do you think they mean her economic policy is too left or do you think they mean she's too woke? Something tells me it's the latter and not the former
@hutchinson The median voter interprets "liberal" and "moderate" based on social issues not economics. Centre-left to left social democratic policies are overwhelmingly popular and more importantly are quite a fair bit to the left of the Democratic party.
@hutchinson@Warwatcher123 You could not amplify this in an attempt to be smug. The "I'm blue no matter who" but also "oof damn look at all his baggage it's gonna tank him" sounds like a setup to blame the populist left if he does lose.
@hutchinson So now the nuance comes out when previously you took voter responses at face value?
The only takeaway here is that median voters have incoherent politics and it's on politicians to push/shape a vision and narrative.
@hutchinson He does though to an extent. He supports Jon Ossoff who isn't exactly a left wing warrior and Van Hollen (who to be fair has been more progressive the past year) The line he draws in the sand is Israel but he would probably back anti Israel moderates if there were more of them.
@TheOmniLiberal Then make a reasonable criticism. Obsessing over Hasan, calling him every insult under the sun, and spamming the same 30 second clips is not exactly an effective way of getting people who are not obsessed with Hasan to properly engage with the criticism.
@TrendPolCa@PierrePoilievre This isn't necessarily him being nice. The optics of going on Joe Rogan's podcast in the US (same guy who endorsed Trump) to attack Carney is horrible and it would be free attack ad content for the Liberals
@hutchinson@KyleKulinski If him saying "I endorse" matters so much to you while his broader coverage matters so little to you, would you prefer Kyle relentlessly bashing democrats leading up to the election and then on the eve of the election simply saying the words "I endorse Harris"?
@hutchinson@KyleKulinski You're unironically acting like one of those gaza people who screams at bernie sanders because he didn't call it a genocide despite his relentless advocacy for an arms embargo.
@hutchinson No you are just wrong on this. If you really think his lack of an "official" endorsement trump's his overall rhetoric and coverage, you would then have to agree you prefer a Kyle that nonstop attacks the Dems and on November 2 says "I endorse" before continuing the attacks
@hutchinson Keeping the filibuster lets republicans continue their larp of wanting to gut the government and welfare. Removing it forces poor republicans to suffer under their policies. Unfortunately that's probably the only way to deconvert them from the cult
@hutchinson rural hicks get bailed out way too often by the system so they think they can continue voting for hitlerites with no consequence to themselves. republicans passing their bills with 51 votes is another means of making them suffer and realze their mistakes
@hutchinson It's a good argument and I agree. Also if republicans ever do win control with the filibuster gone, extent rural voters need to feel the pain of republican policies for them to wake up. they've grown too complacent voting on the culture war with zero regard for economic policy.