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This is how mumdani won trump voters and young white men despite being a strong advocate for trans rights. He promised real material economic change. When you do that, their will always be everyday people who will over look your "radical" identity politics.

Talarico is saying no, we are all struggling because of the greed of the billionaires. It is a message that short circuits gop messaging. It thus allows him to advocate for trans people without feeling like identity politics because addressing economic inequality will help all not just identities.

White folks anything.

It's an easy remedy. The majority of white folks are working class. If the Dems started actually doing Bernie type shit, they'll feel like some of their needs are being met. But by staying corporate, the Dems let gop tell white working class your oppressed cause your white.

Characterize them as not "caring about you but they/them."

Its like how the Dems will wear kente cloth but not do anything to improve material conditions of black people. Now, even though that is symbolic, to the average white person, it looks like something because the Dems are not offering

Race or gender identity but what good is it if the job pays $8 in this economy.

So, all folks see are democrats "helping" xyz "special" group while they suffer financially. And since the Dems have no big anti-billionaire message coming from the top of the party, it has been easy for the right to

It is because he ties it to class and material conditions.

It is easy to paint the typical Dem as an identity politics radical because they'll pass civil rights laws but not medicare for all or raising the minimum wage, and yet that civil rights law ban hiring discrimination on the basis of

They got you fighting a culture war so that you don't start a class war.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social I’m really hoping that Telarico succeeds and teaches Dems their problem is they don’t have enough sincere and principled electeds.

You can’t fake sincerity, and if Dems find candidates that actually give a shit, we can turn the tide

This means that they tend to go for more familiar, more visible, and less progressive candidates, which has a conservatizing effect on the primary and is not a good thing; however, the bloc typically gets behind the more progressive during the general.

Analysis shows that Black voters, particularly older, try to be strategic/cautious going for the campaigns with the policies that seem more pragmatic and less idealistic, trying to project who might be more palatable to a whiter, more conservative general electorate.

The Black voting bloc is spot on in general elections but tend to be much more conservative in primaries.

For example, polls showed that Black voters supported Clinton until Obama won Iowa, and then, they switched over.

Let me say as Black person, never outsource your critical thinking to any group no matter who it is. South Carolina turning the primaries against Bernie and toward Biden demonstrates that Black voters definitely have their misses.

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Oh yes, problem is immigrants taking all our healthcare

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Class War, not Culture Wars!

The first trans member of the legislature in VA, Danica Roem, got elected running on a campaign to deal with bad traffic and transportation issues that impacted everyone in her district. Her being trans had zero impact on her ability to help solve problems for everyone.

Trans people aren't taking away our health care.
Undocumented aren't defunding our schools.
Muslims aren't cutting taxes for their wealthy friends.
It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians doing all that.
So yes, it seems the focus has been on the wrong 1%.
It's like bliss to hear it said.

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

-governor
-ambitious
-comes to power in time of political dominance by the wealthy
-incredibly comfortable with bigotry
welcome back woodrow wilson

And it is even easier and faster to villainize our current ones, because stupidly, they're not even funding any free public works to distract us, like grand art museums, conservatories, history museums, aquariums, zoos, parks, etc, like those historical so-called captains of industry.

every single Democrat should be willing to run of this and if they aren't they should not be a Democrat bsky.app/profile/bill...

You just know @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is in the mirror somewhere, looking like Patrick Bateman, practicing his best Talarico humanoid impression and just confused:

"How does he pivot to 'TABLE TOP' issues without throwing the marginalized under the bus!?!? Great Scott, it's impossible!" 🤔😵‍💫🫨🤯

Memeing "bleach blond, bad built, butch body," while cathartic and functions like Walz's "weird" to reveal the nudity of the emperor, is largely an immaterial fight if it never diagnoses & attends to the systemic and economic structures reproducing social inequalities and anxieties and vice versa.

Now, I wish his policy solutions were more democratic socialist; however, if we're doing lesser evil voting as BlueMAGA likes, then, Talarico was the clear choice.

At minimum, he normalizes talking about class struggle and introductory class consciousness amongst the normies.

This. This is why he won.

His rhetoric does not imply "but for Trump everything would be back to normal" like the "Trump bad" or meme-ing Trump strategies.

Talarico diagnoses the problem, and it is a problem everyone feels, and in his messaging, the problem is the system, the status quo.

Unpopular opinion: As a 18-year-old gay guy when the War on Terror started, I LOVED "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

That was going to be my get of jail free card in case of a draft. 😭

I hate how "civil rights" and "patriotism" were coopted to integrate queers into American imperialism (fascism abroad).

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And also corporations using a watered down version to sell products and make profits for shareholders.

Hence, you have way too many people use King's words to argue for the reactionary idea of "anti-white racism"

That part!