@patrickruffini.bsky.social
Here for the conversation about the Future of the Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders was right when he agreed with President Trump that if you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.
30.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Democrats should moderate just like Trump moderated the GOP by adopting positions taken by the old industrial unions.
30.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t listen to Jennifer Welch on what the Democrats should do.
Listen to me.
It’s true, I’ve endorsed Deciding to Win.
Either I’m sincere but I know that by going public Dems will do the opposite, or I’m being disingenuous and I actually think you should move left.
Either way, Republicans win.
Democrats should talk about kitchen table issues and not democracy or institutions
25.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You can just do things”
FDR 1933 🤝 Donald Trump 2025
Happy No Kings Day!
18.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No difference if Perot hadn’t run
04.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The debate about the future of the Democratic Party begins and ends with this photo. All they’ve gotta do is turn the clock back 30 years and do exactly what he did.
04.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
In a world of Jimmy Kimmels, be a Jimmy Fallon, a reliable stalwart of apolitical mainstream acceptability
24.09.2025 00:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The concerns you have for the death of democracy are invalid
14.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Believing that 40% of your fellow countrymen are fascists, racists, bigots instead of something closer to 5% isn’t just misguided.
It is hate.
Silence isn’t violence.
Free speech isn’t violence.
Disagreement isn’t violence.
Only violence is violence.
Say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father.
10.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 542 🔁 75 💬 269 📌 13
Initial probabilities in a 7-way field:
Newsom 29.7%
AOC 19.5%
Buttigieg 13.4%
Shapiro 12.2%
Whitmer 11.3%
Booker 9.0%
Beshear 5.1%
I put together a 2028 Democratic primary model I'm excited to release today! www.patrickruffini.com/p/the-inters...
09.09.2025 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0To win, Democrats need to simply move to the center.
26.08.2025 23:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
25.06.2025 02:42 — 👍 831 🔁 127 💬 775 📌 87
Unhappiness is a feature of being on the left these days. A greater belief in societal ills is internalized, reinforced by being online 24/7. They talk often about right-wingers or Trump policies literally killing people. It’s no surprise we see the mental health gaps we do.
19.06.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.
18.06.2025 20:49 — 👍 2916 🔁 443 💬 7978 📌 896People don’t realize how big a national story Mamdani will be if he wins.
Overnight, he’ll be turned into the leader of the Democratic Party.
Progressives have no idea how bad he’s going to make them look.
Anyone who ranks Mamdani is complicit in antisemitism
07.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is nothing wrong with a traditional approach to schoolwork that emphasizes homework and where you can’t retake tests.
It never needed to change.
This sane approach to identity politics got just 2 votes at the DNC.
02.02.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
01.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Instead of renaming everything after the Current Thing, Dems should simply use language that everyone understands and which has broad public support to protect programs they want to keep.
01.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
If you can't see why Faiz is right on this, you are part of the problem.
We need to stop being so obsessed with identity politics.
It’s divisive, unpopular, & out-of-touch.
$17.8 million for “distributional and procedural equity” of the electric grid 🤡🤡🤡
29.01.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
