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Its so hard to project what 2028 will look like because there are three massive unknowns between now and then: what happened in the 2026 elections, who is president, who is running for the Republican nomination for president
Stop, he's already becoming the only Republican I almost like (hates Andrew Cuomo and likes cats)
Voters are a land of contrasts
My mom is a lifelong Democrat who describes herself as a socialist but wouldn't vote for Bernie in the primary because she thought he was too negative
Possible you're misunderstanding the side being taken? He's saying people arguing moderates perform worse are overall wrong (but not always specifically wrong)
(although Sam Bowie gets a bad rap just for not being Michael Jordan, maybe he's Joe Crowley in the metaphor)
Right in the aggregate tall players are better and if you had two otherwise identical players you'd pick the taller one, but not all the tallest players are great and not all the greatest players are tall
You're right if you redefine everything he does as exactly what he wanted after the fact you will only see successes.
That's not true! He tried to do that, failed, and now is letting subsidies that were passed ten years later expire, which is very bad but is not repealing the original bill
Like when the ACA was repealed?
Which of those were legislative achievements where he used the bully pulpit again?
In this case its Obama should have used the bully pulpit to threaten Joe Lieberman, a guy who had *already been primaried* and won anyway, then did not try to run again
Right, that's why he has all these signature legislative achievements.
It is I suppose mildly more effort but its not hard to find recommendation lists from people who like challenging stuff
I might be wrong but I don't even recall it being seriously discussed yet
I agree its not sacrosanct but in the same way there were not 60 votes for the better version of the ACA there were not 50 votes for removing the filibuster
Yeah I'm not excited about *this* administration prosecuting Bolton, but at least he's very likely broken some laws, unlike the other wildly dissimilar people listed
Seems like you're imagining one right now
I cannot imagine having the hypocritical mindlessness to post a sentence that starts with "midwiving fascism" and ends with how you wouldn't care about someone being imprisoned because they were a bad political candidate
What actions are you talking about?
Fair enough, sorry for jumping at you unfairly
...so why the fuck would I worry about going to the protest or not? I might get targeted for posting on here or being a Dem donor or just having a Portland zip code, or for something else that isn't even true
I do not think that would be super easy actually, they would get so much of that shit wrong and it would make them even more unpopular
Things like the No Kings protests help with the elections path. I'm not sure a general strike (even if you could actually organize it) even helps with the other one.