"I voted Republican because calling people who are incarcerated 'incarcerated people' was just a bridge too far!"
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You’re right that this doesn’t happen. But Nichols is right that some voters who don’t support Republicans *don’t support Democrats, either,* because these voters are turned off by Dems’ rhetoric. It’s not a huge number of voters, sure. But in a tight swing-state race, it has an impact.
aug 25, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
But they are okay with Reps' rhetoric? Or, is it a case, yet again, that Dems are held to a much higher standard than Reps?
aug 25, 2025, 1:48 pm • 4 0 • view
This isn’t about Republicans’ rhetoric - of which, however, Nichols has long been critical. (And he’s critical of more than just their rhetoric.) But Republicans’ rhetoric all game is two-faced: they say one thing to their base and another to the centrists. Their basis doesn’t care, 1/2
aug 25, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
as long as they get their red meat, and most centrists aren’t so engaged that they notice. So it works. Dems keep saying things that sound academic enough to make even our own base cringe, and that alienate the middle. It’s dumb. A problem we can’t afford. 2/2
aug 25, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
And calling homeless people “unhoused”.
aug 25, 2025, 3:08 am • 15 0 • view
I fail to see how using the terms incarcerated people or unhoused can be seen as controversial. That entire Third Way document is crazy. Some of those terms I've never seen used by mainstream Democrats or by ordinary people.
aug 25, 2025, 12:49 pm • 4 0 • view