Republicans are consistent and upfront about *why* they want total, unified government control: Democrats are radical socialists who will destroy the country if given power.
I sounded this alarm in 2020 and I will sound it again for 2022. If Democrats are asking voting for total government control, they need to make the affirmative case that Republicans should never govern.
Instead, there are Democratic partisans still complaining that young people/the left didn’t turn out in 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016
If your argument is that it’s CATASTROPHIC when Republicans win elections, that Republicans are so awful, that protest votes are equivalent to leaving vulnerable people at the mercy of fascists, then you need to make that affirmative case *at the time* not always in hindsight
Every Never Trumper that some Democrats retweet would have nominated Kavanaugh, Gorsuch ,and Barrett. The GOP is awful. Admit it.
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In 1996, if you’d said that in 20 years, HRC would be the Democratic presidential nominee, you could also have likely predicted that working class whites (both men and women) would bail on the Democratic party. That doesn’t mean HRC was so fatally flawed candidate.
Bill Clinton was a great politician, sure, but it’s not like HRC was drastically more to the left than he was. Arguably, the ways that she was more to the left involved her centering of racial justice and feminism.
But the Carvilles, et al, are wrong when they imply that HRC ignoring racial justice/feminist issues (abortion rights) would’ve ensured she performed like Bill Clinton in 1996.
Kennedy was a Democrat in 2004 who supported John Kerry. HRC receives a lot of criticism bc she lost in 2016 but even while Obama won twice, there was a steady defection to the GOP from white Dems like Kennedy over the past 20 yrs
I sold programs/souvenirs at Grease for a while. Now, every other theatre let you lock up your station during the show so you could leave if you wanted. (You technically worked a half hour before the show, during intermission, and right after the show).
The theatre for Grease didn’t let you lock the stands. You had to stay and watch the whole show. I did that 8 times a week.