People like Gavin Newsom better take note. He’s fighting tooth and nail to derail the voter-approved one-time 5% billionaire tax referendum from getting on the CA Nov ballot, and strong-armed/bribed Planned Parenthood and Teacher’s Union to come out against it. He and many other Dem politicians haven’t figured out that we can see that they’re just as bought
as Republicans and that the only way to change things is to vote for candidates who won’t be bought.
Phenomenal journalism as always, but respectfully maybe use a different highlight color? that shade of yellow is very visually exhausting/distracting, and your work deseves more attention!
One under-discussed effect of Trump is that his horror-show-with-a-clown-nose-stamped-with-a-tiny-swastika-on-it presidency forced a lot of people to look at politics who normally had more pressing immediate concerns in their lives, and left politics largely to that realm of "I vote for the side I voted for before".
And once they looked, many noticed the rot was not confined to the rotting orange fish-head. The whole thing smells: donors, consultants, institutional cowardice, foreign-policy evasions, affordability theater, corruption dressed as pragmatism, pools that vandals are dumping algae eggs into...
That is perfect weather for actual populism — the thing Trump pantomimed, promised, exploited, and had no capacity or intention to ever deliver on. He rode a massive wave of people who believed, with almost religious certainty, that he would smash the captured system on their behalf.
Instead, he mostly turned the grievance machine into a family business with federal powers. People are HUNGRY for populism and working-class first politics... it's just that the actual people who could implement this are too timid, and the ones voicing it loudly turn out to be Donald Trump, or Fetterman, or Sinema, or Jeffries, ready to jump off his ass to censor the Democrat who dared be untoward against president at a SotU.
The Democratic party is a constant source of promising the positive end-results, while openly refusing to implement the strategies necessary to get them. From Obama's Hope & Change bending to McConnel at every opportunity, to Biden's Build Back Better desperately not wanting to anger MAGA voters with a better country.... to America's greatest failure of them all, Merrick Garland.
It was a good night for the Bernie Democrats.
People like Gavin Newsom better take note. He’s fighting tooth and nail to derail the voter-approved one-time 5% billionaire tax referendum from getting on the CA Nov ballot, and strong-armed/bribed Planned Parenthood and Teacher’s Union to come out against it. He and many other Dem politicians haven’t figured out that we can see that they’re just as bought
as Republicans and that the only way to change things is to vote for candidates who won’t be bought.
Phenomenal journalism as always, but respectfully maybe use a different highlight color? that shade of yellow is very visually exhausting/distracting, and your work deseves more attention!
One under-discussed effect of Trump is that his horror-show-with-a-clown-nose-stamped-with-a-tiny-swastika-on-it presidency forced a lot of people to look at politics who normally had more pressing immediate concerns in their lives, and left politics largely to that realm of "I vote for the side I voted for before".
And once they looked, many noticed the rot was not confined to the rotting orange fish-head. The whole thing smells: donors, consultants, institutional cowardice, foreign-policy evasions, affordability theater, corruption dressed as pragmatism, pools that vandals are dumping algae eggs into...
That is perfect weather for actual populism — the thing Trump pantomimed, promised, exploited, and had no capacity or intention to ever deliver on. He rode a massive wave of people who believed, with almost religious certainty, that he would smash the captured system on their behalf.
Instead, he mostly turned the grievance machine into a family business with federal powers. People are HUNGRY for populism and working-class first politics... it's just that the actual people who could implement this are too timid, and the ones voicing it loudly turn out to be Donald Trump, or Fetterman, or Sinema, or Jeffries, ready to jump off his ass to censor the Democrat who dared be untoward against president at a SotU.
The Democratic party is a constant source of promising the positive end-results, while openly refusing to implement the strategies necessary to get them. From Obama's Hope & Change bending to McConnel at every opportunity, to Biden's Build Back Better desperately not wanting to anger MAGA voters with a better country.... to America's greatest failure of them all, Merrick Garland.
Important to note that over 300,000 doors were canvassed for Claire alone. Human to human conversation is driving these results.