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Posted on 01/18/2025 9:49:15 AM PST by Libloather
What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era.
Yes, Democrats must get mean – ruthlessly, bitterly mean. This is not to say, however, that they need merely to cast aside the former first lady’s once-famous, now-infamous messaging mantra. No, what I prescribe is not just a new approach to political discourse but a new theory of opposition party politics.
Trumpism has corrupted America in many ways, but one of the most obvious is how voters now expect lawmakers and surrogates to be truly vicious cultural warriors for them. One can see manifestations of this in the congresswoman Nancy Mace’s deranged bullying of the congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride, the endless and deliberate mispronunciation of Kamala Harris’s first name, and the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the top fundraisers in the House of Representatives.
This phenomenon also exists on the left. The coffers poured open for Jasmine Crockett following a tête-à-tête with the aforementioned Taylor Greene, during which Crockett mocked her colleague’s “bleach-blonde bad-built butch-body”. And one could argue the strongest period of the Harris-Walz campaign – at least in terms of Democratic enthusiasm – was during the “weird” and “couch” sagas of Brat summer.
As the commentator SE Cupp recently observed, “it doesn’t get said enough, but Trump’s enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters”. Democrats can either bemoan the fact the fundamental rules of politics and discourse have changed or they can adapt to it. In the four years to come, emboldened voices on the right will work to expand the Overton...
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Wow. What a perception that the rats have not gone low enough.
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> Yes, Democrats must get mean – ruthlessly, bitterly mean
How is this different from what they’ve been doing for decades?
If they go low, they should also go high.
On trees, lamp posts and second story porch railings.
Is this author a Brit? Why are they rewriting history?
typical Brit rentboy/jernalist...
Stopped right there.
Well, they only tried to shoot Donald J three times last year, the slackers.
Yeah, if the last 4 years was the “high road” ...
That photo pegged the needle on my gay detector.
Chuckles in Paedophile
Sadly, someone will slap the sh*t out of this twerp. Nobody gives a sh*t Peta.
“so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era”
Is the Leftist Guardian trying to claim the Democrats, since 2008, have represented the “niceties and mores of the Obama era”; when, in fact, “going low” has been their one consistency ever since them; they’d done nothing else.
What a douchebag.
later
Lol because having done that the last 4 years has worked so well for them
Yes, double down on stupid. Maybe the Alt Left can lose the Dems 4-5 more Senate seats and 3o-40 US House seats
Going low is Dem modus operandi since Goldwater, made perfect when Bork became a verb in our language.
Gay author. You always get this sort of hysteric bombast and ridiculous absurdist posturing from the LGBTQ+++ freak show
Please make your move, PLEASE.
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