Julia is 100% right. But it's even more than that. Cable channels are trumpeting the Democratic "nightmare", a "reckoning", I believe Peter Baker said that Biden returned home to a "different country." It was a rough night. But Republicans picked up a governorship ...
2/ and had a strong night in New Jersey, in part because of poor turnout on the part of Democrats. But Dems will hold the governorship. As I wrote last night, none of this is a mystery. The President's underwater. But let's also be real. This is a fairly typical pattern ...
3/ for off year elections for the incumbent party. As Julia notes, to see Republicans act you'd think the Democratic party basically didn't exist anymore. A CNN chyron says Democrats "face a reckoning after misjudging the nation's mood." That's not true. But this isn't just ...
4/ how the press treats Democrats. To a great extent they are mirroring the emotional tenor of Democrats themselves: the doom and gloom, the drama, the final step on the road to oblivion. It was a rough night. And far more importantly it is a warning sign for ...
5/ next years midterms in which Democrats face all sorts of structural challenges regardless of how well their doing politically. But the midterms didn't happen yet. The way national press treats Democrats is to a great degree a mirror of how Democrats treat themselves & the ...
6/ glass half-empty mindset that is ingrained in the political coalition. Republicans win and they bully and gloat. When they lose they claimed they've been cheated and double down on how much more they'll bully and taunt when they win next time. The national ...
7/ political press remains wired for the GOP. But what Democrats do have control over is their own emotional equilibrium. And that could use some work.
8/ If it weren't a party rightly sensitive to the marginalization embedded in gendered language I would say, Democrats, don't be pussies. Because if you act like pussies people will treat you that way. Just look at the headlines.

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