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Liberals enter the MAGA lion's den
Axios ^ | 3/14/25 | Zachary Basu, Neal Rothschild

Posted on 03/14/2025 11:20:31 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Deprived of all levers of federal power, and with their party's popularity at rock bottom, some Democrats are taking a polarizing new tack: Engaging with the enemy.

Why it matters: Backlash against cultural elitism — and a reluctance to take risks — fueled the party's loss in 2024. Ambitious Democrats are reckoning with the need to reach beyond their base as they try to claw out of the wilderness.

Driving the news: None have been as daring as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has rankled the Democratic base by hosting a trio of hardline MAGA voices for the first three episodes of his new podcast.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fake; newsom
The king of hair gel(Newsom) thinks he can gain MAGA voters, and why does he have a podcast?

Isn't he supposed to work in Sacremento for the people of California.

1 posted on 03/14/2025 11:20:31 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Liberals just another branch of communism.

Many names same objective


2 posted on 03/14/2025 11:24:20 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: DallasBiff

Dems splitting in two.

As Abe Lincoln said: “The Democrat Party cannot exist half woke leftist morons and half doddering old guard anti-American grifters.”

Or something like that.


3 posted on 03/14/2025 11:24:43 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DallasBiff
Deprived of all levers of federal power...

Tell that to the activist federal judges.

4 posted on 03/14/2025 11:26:45 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff

They act like they didn’t convert Joe Rogan from a liberal to a Trump supporter. Rogan and Musk were solid lefties and had two of the biggest social media platforms. They practically drove them to Trump rallies with their insanity.


5 posted on 03/14/2025 11:26:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: DallasBiff

The Left never has, doesn’t now, nor ever will have a rational argument. That is why the Left never enters into the forum of ideas - the MAGA lions’ den - because they will be eaten alive.

The Left’s only weapon is gov’t FORCE.


6 posted on 03/14/2025 11:31:15 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DallasBiff

Oh good grief! The Dims still have not got a clue. The unpopularity they face is not about style, it is about core values. They keep pushing Commie goals, socialism, genderisum, big government and control. They try to separate people by sex, gender, color, race and DIE. They need to unite people and tell the truth. People are tired of the lies. They are fooling themselves if they think a hairdo that is homosexual will win the most votes, without cheating.


7 posted on 03/14/2025 11:32:06 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: frank ballenger
Hahahaha..I thought for sure you were going to post Lincoln's reference using a joke widely attributed to Abraham Lincoln:

"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg."

8 posted on 03/14/2025 11:32:48 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Paperpusher

The rats have not moderated because they believe they have to cheat just a little bit more and they are back in power.


9 posted on 03/14/2025 11:36:23 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Jim W N; All

The Left’s only weapon is gov’t FORCE.


Don’t forget FRAUD. Their biggest weapon is lies and false assumptions about reality. This is reinforced by government FORCE with censorship.


10 posted on 03/14/2025 11:37:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: rlmorel

Great one. That’s why Abe quit comedy for politics. A natural.

Recently watched the movie LBJ (2016) (with Woody Harrelson).
Being pressured by his lifelong racist Dem friends to oppose the civil rights legislation, LBJ said:

“You know Abe Lincoln said after he woke up after a three day drunk?
I freed the WHAT?”


11 posted on 03/14/2025 11:39:02 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Oh, yeah. LBJ was a piece of work. I still remember the thing with him holding his beagles up in the air by their ears!

It was said he would deliberately have people in to meet with him and would take a crap with the door open while they were there...


12 posted on 03/14/2025 12:25:41 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: DallasBiff
Their lips will claim to backoff some of the outrageous perversion they've championed, but should they win, they'll be right back shoving kiddie diddling and childhood gender mutilation right down everyone's throats again.

Their main thrust now is the same-old same-old lying about Social Security and Medicare cuts.

13 posted on 03/14/2025 12:26:11 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: DallasBiff

As much as I dislike him, he has the right idea, dialogue with the opposition instead of stuck in an echo chamber will tend to weed out the terrible ideas on your own side. So you don’t end up with tone deaf extremist bad ideas, like men in women’s sports, or defund the police and make shoplifting legal.


14 posted on 03/14/2025 12:30:47 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: frank ballenger

Yea, I think there’s a video floating around of him say that.


15 posted on 03/14/2025 12:33:26 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

**Rogan and Musk were solid lefties and had two of the biggest social media platforms. They practically drove them to Trump rallies with their insanity.**

I think Musk was apolitical and wised up. Me, I wised up at age 30 when Reagan was reelected. 12 years earlier it was McGovern, forgivable for an 18 year old. Big businessmen deal with both parties never picking sides. Remember when republicans were on the side of big business?


16 posted on 03/14/2025 12:46:35 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: stevio

But have to watch for fakes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT43vnfjMu8


17 posted on 03/14/2025 5:42:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: rlmorel

Yes, that’s in the LBJ movie. Thank goodness they no longer offer Smell-O-Vision.

https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/belknap/exhibit2002/smell.htm


18 posted on 03/14/2025 6:06:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

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“some Democrats are taking a polarizing new tack: Engaging with the enemy.”

time to LIE through our fangs.


19 posted on 03/15/2025 7:40:07 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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