This is purely an emotional self-observation, and has zero bearing on my prof’l take on the election narratives.
But over the past 24 hours I’ve moved from kinda liking Mayor Pete to pretty much despising him. It’s really weird how the Iowa optics have impacted my emotions!
But over the past 24 hours I’ve moved from kinda liking Mayor Pete to pretty much despising him. It’s really weird how the Iowa optics have impacted my emotions!
There’s something so utterly constructed and artificial in this Iowa experience that I see Pete in a totally different light. Everything about him, from his vocal tone to the raw text of his words, strikes me in a *completely* different way today. It’s really weird!!
There’s a slow roll aspect to the Mayor Pete “story” that I’m starting to feel (and find utterly infuriating).
It’s David Axelrod singing his praises on CNN just now ... it’s the spiking of the DMR poll ...
Hang on. I’ve got it!
It’s David Axelrod singing his praises on CNN just now ... it’s the spiking of the DMR poll ...
Hang on. I’ve got it!
Mayor Pete is the fighting young priest who can talk to the young!
THAT’S how I think about him after the Iowa experience!
THAT’S how I think about him after the Iowa experience!
I recognize that this reference is lost on anyone born after 1970.
