Saved by Sirnesto
Switching Candidates Was the Right Call. Will Dems Learn the Lesson?
“But Democrats need to admit that they are at the end of their own cycle of politics. The Obama coalition is over. It is defeated and exhausted. What comes next needs to be new. That means going to new places and being open to new voices. A politics right for the next era will not be a politics designed to win the last election. It’s not going to b
... See moreHillary Clinton, as I have said, was the candidate of the technocracy. She ran for office based on her credentials and vociferously spoke for the oppressed. She won the popular vote but lost the election because that vote was heavily concentrated in the Northeast and on the West Coast. In other words, she won the heartland of the technocracy and lo
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Do They Have Your Attention Now?
thebulwark.com
The narrative: America is too racist and sexist to elect a black woman.
The reality: many women felt their intelligence insulted by the party that forced two terrible ones on us in 2016 and 2024. Men are allowed to vote how they like; it need not be driven by sexism. They don’t owe women anything, and especially not a woman who ignored them her enti
... See moreNow that the Democrats are strong, they are acting like rightists. And now that the Republicans are weak, you see them acting like leftists: criticizing America’s imperial influence in the world opposing war and military aid not trusting the FBI or the police expressing qualified sympathy for America’s current rivals talking positively about unions
... See more