Jonathan Smucker
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It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left:
It’s immoral and stupid in a way that’s exemplary of the intellectual-ethical rot devouring American liberalism from the inside to blame the people protesting a genocide instead of the people carrying it out.
"It will be tempting for liberals to keep talking only to themselves, cathartically bonding over the backwardness of half the country; if that’s our story, we lose." (from 2017, soon after Trump won the first time) newint.org/features/2017/…
Animus toward white working-class men is an acceptable outlet for general anti-working class sentiment for some professionals. They'd say it about working-class people of all races if they could.
Against my better judgment, I joined another social media platform: bsky.app/profile/jonath…
Wrote about how the election reveals deep conflicts over the word "democracy" and how organizing toward a general strike in 2028 and running a true candidate of the people in the Dem primary is essential for real democratic renewal (my vote is Shawn Fain). nybooks.com/online/2024/11…
Hundreds of innocent people could have been saved had Netanyahu acted
🚨Netanyahu's office were warned about Hamas' Oct 7 attack at least 4 hours in advance & chose to do nothing Then Netanyahu's office spent 13 months blackmailing with "embarrassing documentation" the intelligence officer that warned them to keep silent, & now the story broke out
The war in Gaza has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and $18 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars. We cannot continue to be complicit in this war by supplying more military aid and weaponry to the Netanyahu government. Congress must act to block these arms sales.
Maybe we should ditch billionaires and not trans Americans.
A message from UAW International President Shawn Fain
STFU
Dems need a strong and strategic party leader, with broad experience in comms; fundraising and winning elections. One thought I surfaced on @HacksonTap: Ambassador @RahmEmanuel There may be others but he is kind of sui genesis: Dude knows how to fight and win!
If the plan from Dems was to pin all these cuts on Joe Manchin, Biden should have been on the news every night and delivering press conferences blaming Joe Manchin and using the bully pulpit. Instead they went down without a fight.
The COVID-era boosts to SNAP, UI, CTC, and child care went away. Medicaid unwound. Food costs spiraled. Interest rates doubled. Measures of material hardship worsened. And Democrats pointed to headline figures showing a boom. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
From 2016:
Published 3 days after Trump won the Presidency, this is still a relevant primer for understanding populism (and how to win in 2020). wagingnonviolence.org/2016/11/win-po…
FYI the Dems haven't yet confirmed Biden's last NLRB nomination — even though this would maintain a Democratic Board through late 2026
With the re-election of Donald Trump, many of our neighbors are confused how this could happen again and fearful what the future holds. Join us this Saturday Nov. 16th at 12PM at Tellus 360 to be in community with one another and chart our path forward. mobilize.us/mobilize/event…
Chuck Schumer should resign as party leader. When there's an electoral disaster of this scope, you can't just continue as is. Also, it's time for economic populism at the head of party, and that's not Chuck, to put it mildly. thenation.com/article/politi…
Profoundly unserious analysis. So it's only people's *perception* that they're hungry and can't afford groceries? stephensemler.com/p/food-prices-…
"It wasn’t the economy," @mtomasky says. "It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer" — the right-wing media. newrepublic.com/post/188197/tr…
NONE. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE. If you're shedding votes from every single demographic except wealthy people with grad degrees, you don't nominate more candidates who only appeal to wealthy people with grad degrees!
It’s been less than a week since Trump clinched the presidency, but ambitious Democrats are already positioning themselves towards 2028. 👉 politi.co/3Z1dQHh (📷 AP)
Jonathan "Nostradamus" Chait
All the sharpie/covfefe/buying Greenland stories make liberals look smug and keep Trump at the center of the narrative and the driver of momentum. One of the most basic principles of political strategy is that whoever is the driver of momentum the most usually wins.
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