I expected this wrote about the end of affluence politics two months ago. The GOP is cruel and corrupt, but they learn. The Democrats and left are a bureaucratic nightmare, and they are getting dumber.
At some point the lines cross.
At some point the lines cross.
The Democratic Party and the progressive/left side of the aisle are highly organized, but the goal is to exclude outsiders and prevent learning and thinking. The ideas aren't always bad, they are just old and not relevant.
It's why every debate had the same 10 questions.
It's why every debate had the same 10 questions.
It's why faced with the greatest potential political pivot point since 2008, the left and the Democrats are completely and comically irrelevant. They don't even know they are irrelevant, they literally do not know what it would mean to wield power.
Right now @marcorubio is structuring how small business will look for a generation. And he's just a Senator with a position everyone thought was an irrelevant backwater just a few months ago, the Chair of the Small Business Committee.
Power isn't about status, it's about will.
Power isn't about status, it's about will.
I know some experienced policy thinkers who are diehard Democrats, and they thought the Democrats could be a vehicle. The 2020 primary was a shock. A lot of them are trying to figure out what to do in a world where the Democratic Party is actively hostile to common sense.
