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Jamie O, So Called Liberal Media

Welcome To The Party, Pal

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He won’t get the nomination, this is a joke campaign. He won’t win the nomination.  America would never elect someone like Trump. He’ll have to change, the office of the presidency will change him.  Tonight he became president.  He’s pivoting (at least a dozen times over four years). He’ll just disappear once he loses. His supporters are all talk, there won’t be any violence. And so on. A lot of people, from the elite-iest of the DC media elite to your neighbor, were constantly and consistently wrong about everything Trump-related. David Brock, former conservative critter and now Democratic strategist, was … Continue reading Welcome To The Party, Pal

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Move On Dot Everyone?

A friend, deeply frustrated after talking to clueless Republicans, wonders why Democrats can’t get their message out. She says: What’s so darn hard about spreading the word, and repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, like Republicans do? Indeed, it should be the easiest thing in the world. And yet it’s not, for all the reasons we already know: the media is not liberal, the left doesn’t have the “talking-point-factories-disguised-as-think-tanks” infrastructure, Democrats by nature are not authoritarian and aren’t in the habit of falling in line, etc. etc. As a result we get narratives like this: This is elitist … Continue reading Move On Dot Everyone?

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Move On Dot Everyone?

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A friend, deeply frustrated after talking to clueless Republicans, wonders why Democrats can’t get their message out. She says: What’s so darn hard about spreading the word, and repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, like Republicans do? Indeed, it should be the easiest thing in the world. And yet it’s not, for all the reasons we already know: the media is not liberal, the left doesn’t have the “talking-point-factories-disguised-as-think-tanks” infrastructure, Democrats by nature are not authoritarian and aren’t in the habit of falling in line, etc. etc. As a result we get narratives like this: This is elitist … Continue reading Move On Dot Everyone?