It’s not a magic incantation to win regardless of the odds

Sorry, I guess I should have said this twice. You don’t win Nebraska just by touching up the progressive message a little. Propaganda still exists, party loyalty still exists, racism still exists. But he did a hell of a lot better than any slow and steady liberal candidate would do. And in races that aren’t in deep red states, doing better is enough to win.

You can do both. Release a report in anticipation of being fired and make them fire you.

Republicans give them the red meat they want. They piss off the people they hate. Their campaigns are all about making the base happy.

Even framing it as an active choice is wrong. People who become disillusioned with life and don’t feel like politics has answers for their problems just stop engaging and stop thinking about it as something important. It wasn’t an active choice, they just didn’t care.

It’s convenient that they’re already all written because we’re repeating history.

In Nebraska

Uh, that’s your answer. It’s not a magic incantation to win regardless of the odds, but in a presidential election that’s by default 50/50?

It would be a different world if he’d done that four years ago and appointed someone to be AG that was willing to enforce the law against powerful people even if it caused conflict. Merrick Garland may be the single person most to blame for this result behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But we sure did clap back at those Republicans, didn’t we?

Because it’s a public influence campaign to influence resistance to his worst impulses (by politicians and the public) and position the Democratic party as righteous. People don’t just see one authoritarian thing and believe he’s authoritarian, it’s a conclusion you build up over time and need to maintain. And just preemptively rolling over for expediency gets you nothing. There’s no cost for doing this. Learned helplessness isn’t a strategy.

Gore lost by few enough votes that there are a multitude of people who could have acted differently to produce a win. You can pick and choose who you want to blame and everyone is right.

He’s going to dive into dementia live on TV. No way that man’s ego lets him be hidden away as his brain continues to melt.

By 2028, Republicans will have gone all-in on explicit voter suppression and fully political election boards, they’ll let the corporate overlords for media know they can take the mask off or suffer their wrath, and they’ll have a Supreme Court and federal government to back them up. They don’t need to hide anymore. They made the fascistic push this time and they won, now is time to wield that power.

It’s not even the leader itself that matters. Harris was a mediocre politician, but she could have run a better campaign on issues that make people believe in the Democratic party. But instead we ran up to election day wondering if Lina Khan would even keep her job and nightmares of neoliberal policies too limited and too complicated to inspire anyone.

Yeah, Harris’s campaign was bad, but she at least had a chance. We wouldn’t be as devastated today if Biden was the nominee because we’d all know the result. What would have been much better was actually having a primary rather than needing to tiptoe around his ego for half the campaign.

Biden barely won. No one should take 2020 as evidence of expertise. That was an embarrassingly nail-biting result.

You could pretend justice is still working and then make him do it. Even if it’s a waste of time, even if the Supreme Court will quash it. It doesn’t matter in that the end result guaranteed, but there’s value in making authoritarians be authoritarian.

No, you were still had a dumb opinion that didn’t have shit to do with the results of the election.

Biden 2020 was a nail-biter of a win and thus far I don’t think any of the states he won have been called for Trump. But there being no surprises in the blue direction is not very comforting even if Harris does pull it out.

Not just that, part of his campaign message was “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago”. 4 years ago was lockdowns and bodies being stored in refrigerated trucks.

Gotta love those Pro-Choice/Trump votes.

And that’s assuming he lives that long. Hopefully they’re working to groom a replacement and get a friendly governor.

Robinson was polling well below Trump, so I don’t think this says much. It was able to be called this early because he was doing badly and expected to lose.