Joe Biden is a competent public servant and a decent man, but he’s not the guy who’s really going to use bold strokes to change the status quo. He’s not going to advocate ending the filibuster or packing the Supreme Court.
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AXIOS: An angry mob of Democrats has taken to the streets, furious that Biden is moving too quickly to address the pandemic & undo the damage wrought by the worst President in history
D: That sounds extremely counterintuitive
AXIOS: “It’s too much”, they cry. “Please, do less.”
AXIOS: Let’s speak with this angry mob of Democrats right now
LARRY SUMMERS: Hello
AXIOS: What is bothering you right now?
LS: We, the Democrats, are deeply concerned about future elections if Joe Biden tries to do too much
If your perspective is “The democratic vote doesn’t count unless we win”, then that equates to “I oppose democracy.”
This is where the Overton Window is heading for the Republican Party.
Remember the Chauvin verdict? Trump supporters insist that Chauvin was only convicted because the jury was terrified of “rioters & looters” destroying their city.
This is their same explanation for why more than 60 courts refused to consider Trump’s arguments for election fraud.
Conservative media painted an entirely false narrative of the BLM protests last year, as if it were a nonstop nightmare of rioting & looting. This is now conservatives’ default premise for how our laws are applied, particularly when the results do not go their way.
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The problem with these social media clickbait polls is that “Everyone has an opinion” does not always translate to “Other people care about your opinion”.
Also, “tryna” is cringeworthy exactly 100% of the time.
Once a talking point takes hold, no explanation is sufficient to un-clench it from the lexicon of Things the GOP Will Always Believe.
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing”, paved the way for a Party whose entire notion of virtue could be broken down into “winning” vs. “losing”.
The takeaway is that there is no real downside to the GOP strategy of ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK, because neither they nor their base are constrained by honesty or critical thinking.
Trump is gone (for) now, but there is no effort whatsoever from his Party to evolve beyond him.
Yes, we all remember President Obama with his incendiary and notoriously divisive rhetoric, particularly when it came to race rawstory.com/barack-obama-j…
For the record, I’m giving you all credit for recognizing the intrinsic absurdity of my premise without having to explain my sarcasm
Because if there’s one thing that never happens on Twitter, it’s deliberately absurd statements being taken 100% at face value