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5 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"What constituency is this even supposed to be for?"
Barro is heaving himself into the same moral abyss that contains internment, segregation, Jim Crow, and genocide, and doing it with a knowing smirk.
If you're a member of a sufficiently unpopular minority, these monsters will happily sacrifice you at the altar of political expediency, too.
Like, why not just vote for Trump at this point?

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5 Nov
This is the endgame, right? They're sure racial justice advocates are destroying the Democratic Party, even when the racial justice advocates are nowhere near actual campaigns or power. The only logical next step is to proactively purge them from the party.
It's really simple to see why this idea is so appealing to moderate white male liberals: it drives the people who they feel most threatened by into the wilderness, and makes the Democratic Party into an organization dedicated to their ideals, where they're effectively in charge.
The response to this is always to point to "working class people of color" or Eric Adams, but that misses the point: they still want to create a sieve that filters out anyone whose ideas are too threatening to people like them.
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3 Nov
Seems to me this really the map everyone should think long and hard about if they want to talk about Virginia.
This map blows apart almost all the takes about McAuliffe and Youngkin and CRT and education and suburban parents and school closures and so forth! Because if any of them were true, you could see it on this map. The suburbs would go one way. Other places would be different.
What we see instead is a large, nearly-uniform statewide shift. Big, small, red, blue, city, country, everywhere shifted just about the same.

If you lose ground everywhere, it's not because you lost a battle on an individual issue related to a handful of places or people.
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3 Nov
People are being ultra-credulous about this absurd take. If parents are angry about closures, why is it only manifesting now, AFTER SCHOOLS REOPENED? And why doesn’t it show up in any poll? And does it mean Dems have already solved the issue, since schools have reopened?
The greatest skill of our pundit class is to take whatever thing they’re obsessed with (e.g. defund the police, school closures) and use it to directly explain election results many months later, completely absent any directly observed change or even a plausible causal chain
This is truly absurd, not least because it suggests the main thing Dems need to do for 2022 is eliminate the remaining COVID protections in schools. If you think that’ll reverse a wave, you’re out of your mind.
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2 Nov
So I kind of get the sense that a lot of people have lost track of what’s happening with infrastructure, or checked out. That makes sense because it’s really complicated. But right now BAD THINGS MIGHT BE HAPPENING. Here’s my best attempt to explain how.
So you have the two bills:
1. the bipartisan bill (often referred to as BIF for bipartisan infrastructure framework). It was negotiated by moderates.
2. the reconciliation bill, or Build Back Better, which is the rest of Biden’s agenda and all the stuff most people care about.
Here’s the key facts about the bipartisan bill: it was passed by the Senate in the summer, so if the House passes it, it immediately becomes law. Also it contains a bunch of money for WV, so Manchin really seems to want it. It’s nothing special otherwise, though.
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2 Nov
"We're calling Manchin's bluff by passing the bipartisan bill into law, exactly like he asked!"

THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. STOP PRETENDING THIS MAKES SENSE JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE YOU LIKE ARE REPEATING IT.
Today has been a perfect litmus test to see which of you are capable of thinking for yourselves, and which of you just blindly follow the leader. And I gotta say, it's not looking good for like 90% of you.
Progressives all deciding that voting for BIF is a good idea because other people are saying is literally "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff too?" They're even calling it a "leap of faith" for god's sake.
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1 Nov
wtf, the bill was gutted and manchin and sinema still haven't committed to anything
touchdown dance on the ten yard line in progress
serious question: what has changed on build back better since last week? negotiations are still in progress and the holdouts are still holding out. but there's a really noticeable effort to push it past the house progressives with all this celebratory "mission accomplished!" talk
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