This rant is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a minute lol he spends like five minutes talking about how bona fides as a broke loser living in his mom’s basement.
Full on “my mother was a saint” level meltdown because the intelligence assets on the “dissident right” don’t fuck with him lol
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Irt AOC: from a clinical standpoint, Zohran showed that you can totally avoid spats online by just never mentioning or explaining moderation. When he left his shift on policing unstated, nobody cared, while writers who explicitly said they liked what he was doing got pilloried.
When you just avoid bringing up sore spots with your supporters, it puts the impetus on others to start an outrage cycle, which often is perceived as wrecker behavior and pisses people off. But when you light the spark yourself it gets rid of that barrier entirely.
Ofc not making dumb decisions like funding Israel is the first step here—there’s no way out of criticism if your choices don’t even make sense from an electoral perspective. But in other areas where there are obvious trade offs, the critics can often be very inconsistent.
The actual establishment DMFI guy came in third!!!! What are we doing here?
So unbelievably disingenuous to connect Zohran (who is part of an EXTREMELY well defined movement) to any left-ish candidate who runs on themes they PRESUME he ran on but actually didn't.
I think the thing with Clinton is that a big part of charisma comes as part as a candidate’s ability to position themselves as an individual against a system. That was possible when he was running against a more liberal Dem establishment but is a lot harder today.
Holding all the intangible things that make someone compelling equal, it’s just very difficult to endear yourself to people if you’re only representing institutions. Those institutions will always overshadow you!
It’s because of this that I doubt that a Bill Clinton equivalent who spawned into existence today would be as successful as IRL Clinton in the early 90s. The ideas would be tired and boring, and the people interested in them would gravitate towards experience over upstarts.
Notice how they define “wokeness” or “leftism” along the lines of just banging your head against the wall with unpopular positions. This lets them define any campaign that’s not outright insane as following their “ideas.”
Arguing that leftists can NEVER win and that we need to worship Bill Clinton forever because they’ll all campaign in bell hooks quotes and then saying “wow I was right all along” when they don’t do that and win.
Like what the fuck was the point of those studies you promoted about leftists being too neurotic to function politically if it turns out that you’re also vindicated when they run a masterful campaign. We need some consistency here!
Nobody brings it up because nobody trusts polling anymore but if you look at the national average this election you clearly see Harris shedding two points (i.e., the margin in WI, MI, PA and GA) after early September, which is around when she started the Liz Cheney world tour.
The narrative has been so centered around her uphill battle and the headwinds and whatnot that nobody has ever accused her people of blowing a lead. But if you take the polls literally, they…blew a lead.
Her polling trendline tracks so closely with how her rhetoric changed that it feels fake. Like there’s no way it’s this simple.
These states voting D at the Senate level, plus NC Dems winning half of the state’s statewide contests, means that non-Harris Democrats won in enough states to get over 270 electoral votes. This was an electorate Ds could have won with—they just didn’t want Biden or Harris.
Even in states that didn’t split, downballot Dems outran Kamala across the board. Maryland, where the popular moderate former Governor Larry Hogan ran, was the sole exception.
It’s hard to stress how much of a break this is from everything we saw in past Trump-era elections. Between 2016 and 2020, not a single Dem won a senate race in a Trump state. Incumbents never consistently outran the top of the ticket. Nonincumbents almost never did.