AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

This but unironically? I seriously wish more Democrats were like Bernie Sanders or AOC – willing to hammer the same points over and over and over again in a way that's clear and accessible to the broader public while still having some nuanced conversations for the people paying attention. I don't quite know how to describe it – populism but sincere? Bernie's rhetoric captured me – someone who felt they were paying attention but was leaning socially right-wing under the guise of "egalitarianism" – back in 2016.

New York Mayor Ed Koch said "If you agree with me 51% of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me 100% of the time, see a psychiatrist."

The issue isn’t messaging, the issue is policies. Democrats don’t have policy prescriptions that do anything for the majority of people. If Harris and every democrat running for congress had unified around universal healthcare, she would be president and we’d have a democratic majority in the house and senate. Instead we got milquetoast bullshit along with “orange man bad” and then screaming at anyone who dared to criticize the candidates.

I feel like the Harris campaign started strong (i mean...you know...for what it was) with trying to put donnie's stupidity on display but then there was no substance behind it. It's easy to get the lifelong dems and never trumpers and there's no way to get the maggites, but there are a shitload of people in the middle who were left like 🤷. Obviously, voting against evil Orange Jesus should have been their reaction, but we totally failed.

I think it's because a core feature of Democratic politicians is a tacit agreement that debate is good and necessary.

republiQans not only don't think that, they actively despise that.