Thinking about what’s behind the Democratic Party’s toilet-tier approval rating in the context of my own political evolution, the biggest driver IMV has been the catastrophic failure of the project of Systems Change (tm) coupled with a corresponding unwillingness to abandon it 🧵 The whole story in ~2010 on the left was the Piketty era acceleration of wealth polarization, which strongly encouraged a ‘worm at the core’ issue requiring fundamental directional change. 2003 Iraq and 2008 Crash Vibes massively encouraged this on a narrative level.