She’s the 1st (D) elected in that district since the 1969 congressional elections, don’t think that makes it a purple district yet.
CraigM
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THEN LET ME FUCKING GIVE YOU SOME CAPS BECAUSE YOU ARE GOD DAMN RIGHT.
Fuck triangulation. Fuck being timid. Get out there and, loudly, do the work.
The public can be forgiven for not realizing that the slow drip of subpoenas, that get ignored, aren’t that serious as the penalty has been? That when anytime someone whispers impeachment, we more loudly hear Pelosi say ‘don’t talk about impeachment’.
What’s the message out there? It’s not that the president deserves to be impeached but is being shielded by a complicit senate. Not when Pelosi herself is the one quashing the action. If she is actively hindering it, how serious can it be?
Obviously we know ‘pretty damn serious’, but your average American idiot? They don’t think so because nothing has happened.
SO LOUDLY BANG THAT FUCKING DRUM.
RichVR
3836
ITT
Angry people. Cool.
Angry people yelling. Cool.
Angry people yelling that are actually privy to what Pelosi knows. Oh yeah. ZERO.
The way it’s currently drawn, it is. It was redrawn by court order in 2016 with the new boundaries not taking effect until January, 2017. Her win in 2018 was the first election held under the new district border/redraw.
Here’s why the Tea Party can do what they do…and progressives cannot.
Let me let you in on a li’l ol’ secret: America’s status quo inertial motive force is that of a shitty, racist, bunch of assholes.
That’s OK. That pretty much describes most countries and governments throughout world history. :)
But every once in a while, America is able to rouse itself out of its own inertia to do some pretty amazing things towards moving the human race forward. Which is great.
But here’s the thing: the Tea Party applies more weight to the train to push it down the tracks. They’ve got the easy job, pushing the country to its shitty, base status quo. Progressives are trying to push things off the tracks, and it’s an order of magnitude more difficult and requires more application of skill and tactics than anything the Tea Party ever needed to do.
Jesus fucking Christ is my secret.
your physics analogy lost me about here
You’re right, that is a bit tortured, isn’t it!
How about “More weight to the big snowball”.
I made it more weight to the train moving down the tracks, which basically is what it is.
Being shitty and nativist and racist seems built into the status quo of a lot of countries, in various forms. Changing that is tough. Tends to happen by small increments over a lot of time, with a lot of sacrifice.
The good thing is: it happens.
And maybe Dems sticking their necks out more now is part of that sacrifice. It’s a decent argument.
But I do think that just base, dumb-dumb calls to populism is an easy and effective (apparently) weapon that the right and especially those who were once the Tea Party and are now the Republican mainstream have at their disposal that the Left, I think, does not.
Yep, had forgotten Brat lost Hanover Co. in the redraw. That’s a chunk of “righteous” folks right there. I think Cook still rates it R+5 or so.
Clay
3848
This pretty much sums it all up.
Matt_W
3849
What did the Tea Party accomplish? I’d actually argue that in the long term Occupy, which elected nobody and never seemed to have a concrete plan of action, was more influential than the Tea Party, which mostly primaried Republicans and lost a few solid district to Dems. Bernie Sanders’ candidacy was a direct result of the change of conversation that Occupy began. And there’s a direct line from Sanders to AOC and to progressive planks that are de rigueur now for every single credible Democratic candidate for president. Sometimes it’s that slow, deliberate cause of grinding away at public opinion that wins the war.
There’s a pretty solid line from the nativism and racism of the Tea Party to the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania right now, and the creation of a border crisis. The Tea Party basically was able to thinly disguise that corrosive ideology behind some kind of nonsensical fiscal responsibility message until they gradually were able to put it in the mainstream and make it the default Republican setting now.
The Republican Party and Tea Party are now one. Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell would be mainstream – not fringey – Republican senate candidates in 2020.
That’s an accomplishment, I think.
All we need now is some more billionaires to start funding and organizing “grass roots” movement and we’re good. I suppose in the end it doesn’t matter, all those screaming “patriots” in 2010 yelling about the evils and perils of health care got what they wanted regardless if they were duped into or not. And now Republicans have Putin as a partner. Joy.
Odd that we don’t know what she knows has to be treated as she is right, though.
