conversely, I reckon moderate Dems would have a lot more success breaking through the conservative noise machine if they could just advance their own policies rather than constantly starting slap-fights with the left
the problem, I suppose, is that the ruling moderate elite is *theoretically* dedicated to mostly the same outcomes as the left, but insists for various reasons that It Can't Be Done
so they're stuck either plugging Rube Goldberg tax credits that are meager and/or don't work, or bait themselves into trying to slap down the left for advancing straightforward solutions to big problems
Sullivan was the guy that had to get climate policy 101 explained to him by John Podesta back in 2015 theweek.com/articles/65742…
fondly remembering the primary days when Bernie Sanders' focus on welfare and jobs was somehow crypto-racist. hope we enjoy the next 4 years of austerity and imperialism
@AliceFromQueens here he is lying about AOC, accusing her of attacking Iran when she was attacking the Trump admin
@AliceFromQueens here he is being extremely deceptive about journalists' 1st amendment protections followed by a prolonged meltdown when some BLM activists hassled him
site note: let's not give into Chris Cillizza brain and defeatism about this stuff. is Biden likely to do all of this on his own? no! could he be bullied into it with sufficient popular pressure? yes!
Mugabe ended up as a fairly ruthless dictator, but he was also born dirt poor, helped lead a guerilla overthrow of an apartheid regime, and actually served as a moderate Mandela-esque figure before he turned authoritarian
Mugabe is the kind of guy who would have been a good, maybe great prime minister in a functioning democracy. but colonialism left Zimbabwe in a virtually impossible position, with weak institutions