Thread by @TheValuesVoter

Dear everybody who is tweeting #ManchinMustGo:

Have you ever been to West Virginia? Ever looked at the election results there? Ever seen the polls? Know anybody who has ever been there? Do you think the people there think about politics just like you do?

Please get a grip.

Let’s play out the scenarios:

Scenario A: Dems launch a holy war on Manchin right now.

1) Manchin then switches parties. Dems need him more than he needs them.

2) Mitch McConnell snatches the gavel from the Democrats.

3) You yell “this isn’t fair!”

Scenario B: Dems primary Manchin, assuming he runs, and miraculously win.

1) The Dem nominee gets crushed in the General Election. Like, crater in the ground crushed. Amy McGrath crushed.

2) The GOP has an even better chance of taking the Senate.

3) You hell “this isn’t fair!”

The Dems who want to angrily retaliate at Manchin need to understand that they’re behaving like Trump in one specific area:

Giving into your anger in ways that HURT YOU as much or more than the person you’re mad at. Otherwise known as stupidity. Not thinking things through.

When Trump is angry (which, in his unique, psychologically damaged case, is every waking second of every day) he work to punish the person. Even when doing so hurts him. He’s just furious and is too emotional to think rationally. Which isn’t his strong suit to begin with.

Trump was mad at South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford, who criticized him and also voted against him at times. Trump went after Sanford and lost the Republican primary. Who lost the general election. To a Democrat who voted to impeach him and who helped make Pelosi speaker.

Trump didn’t like Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake, who criticized him. Effectively ended his career in the Republican Party. Flake was replaced by a very pro-Trump candidate. Who lost. And gave his seat to the Dems. Which, in 2021, with help from that seat, took the gavel.

The point is, Trump doesn’t think. He just reacts. Gives full blast to his fury. And doesn’t think about the consequences until MAYBE later. When he (IF he) realizes that he screwed himself.

The Dems chanting about getting rid of Manchin are acting like Trump in this one regard.

One more reminder: the ideological makeup of West Virginia.
news.gallup.com/poll/247016/co…

45% of voters are conservative
31% of voters are moderate
18% of voters are liberal

All 55 counties voted for Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020. The only other state where the us is true is OK.

Manchin is the only Democrat representing West Virginia in Congress.

The state’s Governor is a former Democrat who switched parties in 2017.

Biden’s net job approval is FORTY POINTS LOWER in WV than in the country at large.
civiqs.com/results/approv…

With all that, Dems who are chanting about replacing Manchin, please re-examine your assumptions that the fury of progressives at Manchin will hurt him more than it hurts you. And, I have to say, get to know more people from different parts of the country.

(Sorry for the couple of typos/grammatical errors).