Certainly better to push on the party to get behind better options, of course. "We can do better." is great. But building up this familiar "I would *never* vote for " mantra is just self-sabotage.
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The Right knows how to find and drive wedges, no matter who the candidate is going to be. We really, desperately need for those wedges to find as little purchase as possible when it's time.
aug 23, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Except the right didn't have any part in Newsom's implosion. He's wedging us against ourselves all on his own and the strategic move is to throw him in the trash.
aug 23, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm saying it could be Newsom, Pritzker, AOC, Warren, or anyone else in 2028, and the Right would be following the same strategy regardless. There's a good chance the nominee will be someone you or I personally detest, and yet electing them would be an improvement over anyone in the MAGA camp.
aug 23, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not like the left of fascist crowd has a good track record of closing ranks and doing what needs to be done to shut the door on this era. So I'd just as soon have the people in our camp *not* already starting the process of preparing to defect.
aug 23, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Better not be Newsom then or I'm staying home. I don't care how you feel about that. Goodbye now!
aug 23, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure.
aug 23, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree to disagree. You have to have firm lines that differentiate your beliefs from your enemy's. I understand different people have different lines but I have absolutely no respect for being asked to compromise on that line. Newsom has crossed it for me and for countless others. End of discussion.
aug 23, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view