Re: The States: At Least Michigan is Better Than Indiana
Hey, you only cross Bernie once. Once! After that, you're forever on the The List!
Kep's lunacy aside, the Clintons have nothing to do with the Dems withering down ballot during Obama's time. That's arguably the stupidest thing Kep has ever written out here but to his credit he kept the misogyny out of his comments for once on this subject.
Unfortunately for as good a President that he was Obama's huge failing was thinking he was, or he could be, above partisan politics. The writing was on the wall when he turfed Howard Dean, by far the best Dem strategist of a generation, for idiots like Rahm Emmanuel and Tom Daschle. Emmanuel's been a failure pretty much in any job he's ever had, while Daschle was arguably the worst Dem Senate leader in the last half century.
At the same time, big money interests who got tired of bankrolling intellectual heavyweights
like Gingrich, Lott, Dole, Hastert, Dubya and McCain in order to push their interests realized correctly that if they instead put zillions of dollars and organization into down ballot races, they could then use that to redraw lines, get favorable judicial rulings, and basically cement in right wing control of key states for eons and with that Congress. Meanwhile the battle wasn't joined as Dems completely failed to join the battle - ALL Dems, from the mods to the far lefties and everyone in between.
What short circuited that was the same underestimation that we all made, which was that 99.9% of conservative Republicans are certified racists who traffic in KKK type ideology. Far from promoting benevolent plute loving country club types who feigned right on social issues, in reality Koch Bros have gotten wiped out by the Louis Goehmert / Mark Meadows wing of the party - complete and total nutcases who can't be controlled but due to the very gerrymandering the plutes bankrolled are now sitting in insurmountable districts. Obviously this is all manifested in Trump. Educated voters, the ones who were thought to be packed into safely red suburban districts revolted, and now we have a Dem house plus state house gains about 4 years earlier than anybody expected.
Hey, you only cross Bernie once. Once! After that, you're forever on the The List!
Kep's lunacy aside, the Clintons have nothing to do with the Dems withering down ballot during Obama's time. That's arguably the stupidest thing Kep has ever written out here but to his credit he kept the misogyny out of his comments for once on this subject.
Unfortunately for as good a President that he was Obama's huge failing was thinking he was, or he could be, above partisan politics. The writing was on the wall when he turfed Howard Dean, by far the best Dem strategist of a generation, for idiots like Rahm Emmanuel and Tom Daschle. Emmanuel's been a failure pretty much in any job he's ever had, while Daschle was arguably the worst Dem Senate leader in the last half century.
At the same time, big money interests who got tired of bankrolling intellectual heavyweights
like Gingrich, Lott, Dole, Hastert, Dubya and McCain in order to push their interests realized correctly that if they instead put zillions of dollars and organization into down ballot races, they could then use that to redraw lines, get favorable judicial rulings, and basically cement in right wing control of key states for eons and with that Congress. Meanwhile the battle wasn't joined as Dems completely failed to join the battle - ALL Dems, from the mods to the far lefties and everyone in between. What short circuited that was the same underestimation that we all made, which was that 99.9% of conservative Republicans are certified racists who traffic in KKK type ideology. Far from promoting benevolent plute loving country club types who feigned right on social issues, in reality Koch Bros have gotten wiped out by the Louis Goehmert / Mark Meadows wing of the party - complete and total nutcases who can't be controlled but due to the very gerrymandering the plutes bankrolled are now sitting in insurmountable districts. Obviously this is all manifested in Trump. Educated voters, the ones who were thought to be packed into safely red suburban districts revolted, and now we have a Dem house plus state house gains about 4 years earlier than anybody expected.
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