Why is the answer never “Biden has to do something bold and public to earn the votes of the unexcited, rather than leaning on I’m-not-Trump?”
The student loan thing night have worked if the courts didn’t shoot it full of holes. Why is he not promising to pack the courts to force it through? Stonewall any legislation that limps through the knife-edge House until they codify Roe? Go for the fucking jugular on something!
Showing some real backbone to Bibi might help, but we can’t possibly have that.
I keep expecting they’ll reschedule marijuana for the desperate hail mary. You’d think it was perfect for him because in many ways it wouldn’t really change the status quo of state-level legalization, but shows he’s at least read a dorm room poster at some point in his life.
Because when Obama did it in 08, all those bitter moderates voted Republican.
And they’re still shitty that it didn’t stop Obama for daring to run against Hillary when it was her turn.
So for 16 years they’ve been repeating to themselves that a progressive candidate can’t win because moderates will vote Republican. Even though the only time in modern history it happened, the progressive still flipped a bunch of red states in a huge win.
The people running the DNC are fucking terrible at getting Democrats elected, because they don’t have the same idea of what a democratic candidate should be as what party voters think a candidate should be.
It’s worse than that, they don’t care if a dem is elected or not, they raise more money being the opposition party when a hated opponent is in office anyway. Not like he is going to do anything that hurts them or their pocket books directly anyway
Nibbling at the corners night be effective, but it’s not the sort of sound bite that makes a great campaign.
Democracy runs on vibes, and it’s sad to say, but he might need style more than substance here. Do something that can’t be filtered thriugh 92 layers of Congress and the Courts neutering it- something unforgettable. Play a keytar in a neon leotard on Colbert. Promise the return of the 99-cent Taco Supreme. Announce that he could drop Rishi Sunak in a bare-knuckle fight. Go full Dark Brandon.
Why is the answer never “Biden has to do something bold and public to earn the votes of the unexcited, rather than leaning on I’m-not-Trump?”
The student loan thing night have worked if the courts didn’t shoot it full of holes. Why is he not promising to pack the courts to force it through? Stonewall any legislation that limps through the knife-edge House until they codify Roe? Go for the fucking jugular on something!
Showing some real backbone to Bibi might help, but we can’t possibly have that.
I keep expecting they’ll reschedule marijuana for the desperate hail mary. You’d think it was perfect for him because in many ways it wouldn’t really change the status quo of state-level legalization, but shows he’s at least read a dorm room poster at some point in his life.
Because when Obama did it in 08, all those bitter moderates voted Republican.
And they’re still shitty that it didn’t stop Obama for daring to run against Hillary when it was her turn.
So for 16 years they’ve been repeating to themselves that a progressive candidate can’t win because moderates will vote Republican. Even though the only time in modern history it happened, the progressive still flipped a bunch of red states in a huge win.
The people running the DNC are fucking terrible at getting Democrats elected, because they don’t have the same idea of what a democratic candidate should be as what party voters think a candidate should be.
It’s worse than that, they don’t care if a dem is elected or not, they raise more money being the opposition party when a hated opponent is in office anyway. Not like he is going to do anything that hurts them or their pocket books directly anyway
If our presidency had gone Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton it wouldn’t have been a good look
The student loan thing where he’s gotten more than 100 billion forgiven? That thing?
The thing where he lost control of the narrative?
Nibbling at the corners night be effective, but it’s not the sort of sound bite that makes a great campaign.
Democracy runs on vibes, and it’s sad to say, but he might need style more than substance here. Do something that can’t be filtered thriugh 92 layers of Congress and the Courts neutering it- something unforgettable. Play a keytar in a neon leotard on Colbert. Promise the return of the 99-cent Taco Supreme. Announce that he could drop Rishi Sunak in a bare-knuckle fight. Go full Dark Brandon.