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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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His Instagram page and his former job as Don Lemon’s head writer confirm your detector finding.
“If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era.”
Can I get some of what he’s smoking?
Niceties?
“… the niceties and mores of the Obama era..”
WHAT da?!?!?!?
The 0bama “era” brought on outright childishness and out-loud nastiness never before witnessed by the American people.
This is crazy talk.
One must never forget that this fabulist fop Peter Rothpletz is writing for a rag located in a country that allows Musloid rape gangs to repeatedly rape young girls.
And that Peter Rothpletz has never dared to write an article attacking the Brit Musloid rape gangs - because they would find him and rape him, too.
You'd better believe I want viciousness. I want countless anti-American bureaucrats fired, I want traitors who literally orchestrated the deaths of many hundreds of thousands imprisoned for life or worse. I want every FBI agent who held a gun in their hands at Trump's home professionally destroyed. I want street thugs sent to American gulags in remote, cold corners of the world.
There is no end to the visciousness I would like to see. Think how many people they essentially murdered in that meat grinder known as Ukraine!
Certain corporations should be broken up and decimated as well.
I want Nuremburg on steriods.
Translation:
- Niceties and mores = “Dems have power and use government as a cudgel to harass, imprison, bankrupt and spy upon their political enemies.”
- Going low = “Dems don’t have power, so they use incitement to riot, assault, and even murder their political enemies; and do so where they have local control so nobody goes to jail.”
From lawfare to lawbreaking.
No question. Bells rang the minute he ranted about Congressman Tim McBride, the guy masquerading as a female.
Hillary Clinton wasn’t “mean”?
The whole Russia Collusion hoax wasn’t “mean”?
The TDS which started on election night wasn’t “mean”?
The corrupt lawfare and weaponizing federal law enforcement to go after your political enemies while giving those on your side who did the exact same things a complete free pass wasn’t “mean”?
The Democrats did all of the above and they did it first.
Sounds like someone created a cringey woke homo ‘journalist’ using AI, then got it to write this dreck.
And they got a problem with myself? Lol.
Musk!
“It’s time for Democrats to go low”
Clue me in ... when did they every go high?
Maybe they could model their mean and nasty program after the Brownshirts. I do think that Ernst Rohm would have liked to have had him as a boyfriend.
Now they’ll probably start calling Trump and the rest of us Hitler, nazis, racists, sexists...
They can’t possibly go any lower than they are.
” so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The Democrats have never gone higher than the gutter.
The soy and gaiety just reverberate off of that picture.
...niceties and mores of the Obama era.
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You mean like spying on Trump and trying to frame him as a foreign agent?
The response to the Democrats’ outrageous treachery has actually been pretty restrained, I would say.
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