Mitch

Yes but we need to flood the information space because the democrats’ national brand is determined by republicans right now, we need a clear unified message that can pierce this adverse environment

This is a good start, but people should also be free to drive on whatever side of the highway feels appropriate to them.

The national Democratic Party vs “people i got mad at online”, the worlds oldest battle

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

Facts. 💯👊🏻

I mean the podcast on affinity voting was informative and having worked as a staffer on democratic campaigns at the municipal level it’s true. Working class voters view us as snooty elites, not as their champions. Vibes unfortunately matter

Yes this is true, but the party has become one that is seen as hostile to working class voters. We aren’t seen as lefties, we’re seen as snooty elites that look down on those that have not learned the latest lingo

Your views about the world are a reflection of your social environment. In modern times, your social environment is in large part a PARAsocial environment experienced through media. There has been a fundamental shift in the nature of media that has changed almost everyone's parasocial environment.

Look I love having more and better students in law schools but "more JDs, less PhDs" seems like a bad sign for a flourishing society.

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

Really in the "purely because I can" era of political corruption

This is truly a River City moment. For decades, McCoys Creek was buried in a hidden way, quietly flowing beneath our city. This project marks the next chapter of ongoing work to bring it back to the light where it belongs.

I see this take all the time and it drives me insane. Not only has American hours worked stayed relatively stable while reading has continue along its decline starting with the radio, I find it very silly to think that less work hours wouldn’t be plowed into more phone time.

They’ve successfully purged themselves of moderates, and now we’re stuck with just liberals and progressives and somehow still people within the party are trying to shrink the tent

Then how do we win, given that voters and politicians like Manchin and Harry Reid have been responsible for many of our victories over the last two decades? How do we compete in red states and actually take the senate?

That is true, but we need to lose the perception that most moderates have of us. Klein has the only appreciable strategy apart from just holding course. But we also need to at least pushback, we have to still live together in a nation.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.

Re this absurdity on the HUD homepage right now, a federal employee told me:

"I'm fucking pissed that I still have to take annual ethics training and Hatch Act training."

And are we doing that? It seems like the right has way better outreach lol

Much better to allow Joe Manchin to be our candidate in WV and win a senate seat that got KBJ on the Supreme Court. We have to either widen the tent or get way better at persuasion since we are losing

It’s a bad example but the overall argument is correct. We need to adjust course. Our current method of strict party orthodoxy reduces our ability to make alliances like Obama did with moderates to get the ACA, and LBJ to get the Great Society.

No he’s more saying “the corruption of the Grant Administration” (such as making his brother inlaw in charge of New Orleans Customs, where he was infamously crooked)it’s general incompetence on economic policy is tanking the grander project, we need to adjust course before it all goes down in flames

Trump won his district in 2024.

Having gotten my car broken into and my wife's as well, this is a problem in US cities, and it isn't devastating, but it's annoying and puts you on edge. Crime rose after falling, and combined with increased homelessness, cities felt more unsafe

Yes because it was visible and an issue, especially in cities where it spiked, where people have to make sure not to leave valuables in their locked cars, where you have to worry about security and have to deal with all the friction that comes with increased crime.

They saw a rise for the first time in decades and stores losing their shit. Again, while most people in blue cities have not been robbed, they have had to wait for a Walgreens worker to get their deodorant and shampoo. That increases your annoyance at crime.

Yes, it is petty crime that people see that actually matters, but people feel silly saying that stores' responses to increases in shoplifting and carjacking is what really is bothering them.

counciloncj.org/crime-trends....

Here we see a rebound in the early 2020s and spikes in several major cities. still lower than a decade ago but people noticed it and how businesses dealt with it.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res....

No because most people don’t live near murders and violence. They do however see everything locked up when they go into an urban pharmacy or grocery store. They see the homeless people and the crappy infrastructure that’s never maintained properly