Matt Taibbi would give a shit about this but he hasn't yet received documents curated by a billionaire telling him to

They had the votes to stop the Iraq War and didn't, and later lied and said they were tricked by the GOP.

It's been 20 years of that.

thank you for sticking up for the pathetically enfeebled

yeah my take is actually closer to something like "people got a taste of a real social safety net during covid and returning to the status quo ante has permanently changed their idea about what a good economy is"

Do you think it is the role of a political candidate to persuade people to vote for them?

The Harris campaign's main message on immigration was that Trump was right about the border crisis, but that he should have backed a Republican co-authored bill to restrict asylum and send more agents instead of lobbying Congress to kill it. This did not work, obviously.