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Matt Stoller
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No, Republicans don't fool themselves the same way. They want to wield power, and they believe in aristocracy, so it's both less and more honest. More honest in that it's just about greed, less honest in that truth is just not important. It's all a game.
Democratic insiders actually think they are trying to do good for the world. Republicans insiders don't really believe doing good for the world is a thing. They admire well-done lies and theft. For them it's a form of art. Republicans are mean white sorority girls.
I don't spend much time criticizing the GOP because Republican insiders are fundamentally nihilists. Their philosophy truly is impervious to criticism because they just don't believe in enlightenment principles. They are open-minded and curious, but from a nihilistic posture.
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Matt Stoller
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Rather than pretending Beto/Kamala/Booker/etc have an ideologically consistent track record that isn't there, why not just say 'yeah my views changed because the world changed'? It's not hard, it's honest, and it's where most people are.
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Sort of. A lot of Ds are intellectually lazy and do not understand #PAYGO and do not want to. They are mad anyone would dare distrust the fancy folk to whom have outsourced their brain. The danger of @AOC isn't the theatricality, it's that she can think.
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The Democratic Party insider culture is weird, creepy, and super out of touch. It's basically the annoying people in College Democrats from the 1980s and 1990s who look down on others for not obsessing over Roberts Rules of Order. politico.com/story/2019/01/…
Unless you've worked on the Hill, it's hard to convey just how weird these people are. It's not that they are vanilla and lie to the grassroots, it's that they are incredibly proud of doing so and just loathe and distrust anyone who doesn't.
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