El Chisme

We must never again let our candidates fall prey to the siren song of far-left groups who claim, without evidence, to speak for our coalition and offer a path to the nomination.

We’re the only ones who get to claim to speak for the coalition without evidence!

But there were no number of American flags at the DNC, Never-Trump Republican endorsements, or visits to the border that could overcome the weight of the politically fraught positions she took to satisfy the far left in the 2019 primary.

Positions she all flip-flopped on the moment she became VP. Once again, voters’ fundamental issue with the Democrats is that they are constantly waffling, triangulating, and changing positions based on whatever focus group they had this week and voters interpret that as shifty and dishonest.

you believe that making substantial progress requires winning elections—and not alienating the vast swath of swing voters of all races.

Your “win over the swing vote” pusillanimous centrism lost you the election. This is the most infuriating part about neoliberals, it doesn’t matter how many times they shit the bed, they still think they’re the ones who know how to keep the linens clean.

This truth about our primaries is in large part because key voter groups in the Democratic base are moderate: particularly African Americans and Latinos.

And there it is, the patronizing dismal of minorities in the left and claiming to speak for minorities.

Democrats have the luxury of a talented bench

Putting climate emergency in scare quotes should be enough to get you arrested during the climate Nuremberg trials

Third Way

I'm a big fan of presenting "Cutting the prison population in half" in abstract as an obviously bad thing lmao. Like maybe we could get there by improving the conditions for the majority of people, better schools, better healthcare, better addiction services, better housing policy, not having legalized slavery and private prisons.... but no obviously that isn't going to happen so we're left to assume they mean just opening the doors and releasing violence upon the suburban whites

How to speak like you're a controlled opposition without having to use the words controlled and opposition.

"...And we've already came up with a guaranteed winner of a campaign slogan!"

Democrats 2028: "I'm still speaking"

There's a tweet or something like, "That's not the way to get what you want." - person who disagrees with what you want.

I forget exactly, but that's the basic gist of it and these takes remind me of that. They don't want the party to go left so obviously that's the problem.