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24 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The centrist approach to policy making remains aloof from Dems’ political interests — and unaffected by the lessons of the last Dem trifecta.

By deferring policies that solve problems for *4 election cycles*, Dems forgo most of the benefit of whatever political risks they took.
Like … aside from a sprightlier CBO score, there is *no upside * to deferring benefits to a huge voting bloc for *7 years*.

A policy delayed for that long before implementation may as well not exist — in political terms _and_ because a future Congress can bloodlessly undo it.
All I want for Christmas is a Democratic Party purged of all reticence about embracing the possibilities of policy feedback.
Don’t take this from me; take it from an old friend who’s actually done the work to win and hold office:

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Greg Greene Profile picture
24 Sep
This is just about the most ghoulish piece of political journalism I’ve ever forced myself to read. politi.co/2ZtoL02
“Thousands have died, but DeSantis’ prospects in 2024 — which have ebbed and flowed with the pandemic — have resurged as the refrigerated trailers parked at Florida hospitals begin to fill more slowly.”

– this Politico article, essentially
Just a repellent, thoroughly macabre piece of work.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
23 Sep
Beyond the racism, the deaths tied to such rhetoric (e.g., Christchurch, El Paso), and the Radio Milles Collines-level incitement, the brazen lying jumps out.

The DHS just sicced horse-riding agents on Haitians who got lashed before being deported—but Fox talks of “replacement”?
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but our politics and discourse are in a f––ing wretched place right now.
When Biden entered the race, he cited Charlottesville and called the moment “a battle for the soul of America.”

I trust that his feelings were sincere. I just wish I had a better sense, tonight, of what the battle plan is.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
11 Sep
Pat Moynihan, when talking of low-income communities of color, called what Tapper did here ‘defining deviancy down’—reacting to social breakdown by shifting standards “so as to … raise the ‘normal’ level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard.”
To Tapper’s argument: sure, some vaccine refusers have steeped themselves in misinformation. But misinformation isn’t a new condition in American society. Mass rejection of vaccines, by contrast—viewed against the backdrop of our responses to the 1918 flu and polio—absolutely is.
Rather than acknowledge the past standard, Tapper excuses the vaccine refusers of the present — treating their deviance as beyond what society, or at least its journalists, can afford to recognize, while scolding Biden as déclassé for naming it. jstor.org/stable/4121206…
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Greg Greene Profile picture
10 Sep
We don’t, though.
Multiparty competition? Yes.

A robust opposition? Yes.

A strong iteration of the Republican Party, in particular, as one of major U.S. parties? Heck no.
To say we “need a strong Republican Party” implies an unwarranted comfort with the GOP as it is. In a democratic system, people who reject the legitimacy of political participation by others — who reject the right of election victors to govern — cannot be trusted with power.
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Greg Greene Profile picture
10 Sep
With a pause to think about this situation, it doesn’t seem so ironic: many of us in states with higher vaccination rates have kids who can’t be vaccinated yet, and would like their schools to stay open. That leads to fewer outings to the movies, fewer trips out of town, etc.
Certainly that doesn’t explain all of it, but it explains some. Another way to phrase “reining in their activity,” in this case, is “social solidarity” — practiced by families working en masse to maintain our reclaimed stability.
To cut to the quick: none of us wants to be *sshole who forces other families’ kids to quarantine, or shuts down a classroom. I know that first-hand, having watched as scorn was heaped on the parents of a child at my kids’ preschool last fall over exactly that.
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10 Sep
In news from my parents’ neighborhood, a person two doors down from them lost their life to COVID today. The residents of the house, husband and wife, were in their 70s; neither was vaxxed.
These aren’t neighbors I’ve ever met, so this isn’t something to say “sorry for your loss” to me about. But it’s tragic; my mother was telling me about how they once saw the couple on walks all the time, before the woman of the house had a stroke.
Her husband had taken to helping her stay mobile and regain a steady gait in recent months — but when they caught COVID, both ended up in the ICU. The husband died.
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