I know a weirdly specific set of facts about 1980s pop culture and politics from the bloom county anthologies I read over and over and over

but now my son reads Calvin and Hobbes all the time and I know a bunch of his friends do too. I wonder if that's going to be any kind of trend.

low-engagement voters typically stay home in midterms. 2020 was a massive polling miss because low-engagement voters went hard for Trump.

what I do think is interesting is that 2012 was also a big polling miss because(?) those voters went for Obama

What I mean is that I think if it continues we know what Trump's policy is here

I think the core distinction here is between people whose politics are a pose that react to other poses, and people whose politics have a material core

the partisan ideologues of the moderate center left come off pretty well here, along with, you know, most of the actually existing lib-left

I mean she got the idea from right wing media that she watches all the time

When keeping it reich goes wrong

yes, altho I think this story suggests there are a fair number of people making peace with him because they get to use their toys

I think his whole deal is a big step darker than that tbh. I think he wants to kill, and cruelly.

It seems pretty clear there are more popular, and more correct ways of articulating the same policy demand

one thing I've seen recently is people using ICE OUT as a core slogan

I mean we're trying to develop majority support for good policies

yuuuuuuuup

lmaoooooo

I get frustrated when our politics locks in on a slogan as more important than a policy change which the slogan refers to

I think the slogan very much risks misunderstanding and misrepresentation, and seems less popular than other ways of articulating the same policy outcome