Patrick Ruffini

Jasmine Crockett FIGHTS

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It might not be aesthetically pretty but a new city like this in West Texas would simultaneously solve America’s housing shortage while giving people the kind of housing they want.

Democrats can't solve their problems with economic populism if it isn't also accompanied by cultural moderation.

Pairing economic populism with cultural leftism does a net of 49 points worse overall, 27 points worse among persuadables.

Time for Dems who FIGHT.

Platner
El Sayed
Crockett

The real fight in Democratic primaries isn’t exactly left vs. center. It’s Bro Socialist (Platner, Mamdani) vs. Wine Mom Resistance (Crockett, Mills).

Bernie Sanders was right when he agreed with President Trump that if you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.

Democrats should moderate just like Trump moderated the GOP by adopting positions taken by the old industrial unions.

Don’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

“You can just do things”

FDR 1933 🤝 Donald Trump 2025

Happy No Kings Day!

No difference if Perot hadn’t run

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.

In a world of Jimmy Kimmels, be a Jimmy Fallon, a reliable stalwart of apolitical mainstream acceptability

The concerns you have for the death of democracy are invalid

Believing 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.

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%

The Intersection’s way-too-early 2028 Democratic primary model Yes, it's next to impossible to predict. So what?

I put together a 2028 Democratic primary model I'm excited to release today! www.patrickruffini.com/p/the-inters...

To win, Democrats need to simply move to the center.

‪Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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.

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.

People 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