• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      People like Tanden and Klein will throw anybody who isn’t them under the bus. They are going more and more mask off in their distain of anybody who wants such extreme things as reproductive rights. They know that the court would need to be packed first. So I have to assume they’ve entirely given up on restoring Roe even though they will never say that.

      I really wonder how they would talk to a group of normies in a long form Q&A with unscripted, real questions like “If there are more anti-abortion democrats - how can Roe ever be reinstated as a federal law?” I don’t think Tanden and Klein can speak to real people. I think the Q&A would end abruptly halfway through because the normies might get very angry at hearing non-answers and pundit go-tos of vague dem-speak generalities. And then Tanden and Klein would leave in a huff due to the “hostile environment”.

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        The fact that Tanden was so opposed as Biden’s OMB pick only to be appointed to the same position as Ivanka in the White House a couple of months later to basically no fanfare has always been wild to me. Such sleazy shit that would have set the libs off just one year earlier when Trump was still president didn’t set off any bells or warrant the same level of press intrigue as the job that required Senate confirmation. These ghouls believe in nothing, and have been helping each other out forever.

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    hilarious how abundance doesn’t even pretend to be anything more than what democrats were doing before

    surely even some liberals see takes like ezra klein’s and recoil in cringe

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      Just one more deregulation bro this is different it’s about building housing bro come on it’s not like other deregulations this one will be better I promise

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    “pro-life Demcrats” soooo they’re just admitting they’re blue Republicans wow

    the libs who claimed that Democrats actually care for progressive rights must be feeling pretty duped huh

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    I found it here.

    Abortion is a bad example here, but it is one hundred percent true that we need candidates who can compete in deep red contexts, and that means taking positions at odds with the national party. If you want to know why that doesn’t compromise national policy goals, think about why you hate Collins.

    https://bsky.app/profile/dhnexon.bsky.social/post/3lzbp2m6mhc2h

    No log-in https://subium.com/profile/dhnexon.bsky.social/post/3lzbp2m6mhc2h

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    The thread is a trip. It’s dull as can be but it’s like literally overhearing libs at brunch passionately debating what the democratic party should do “going forward”. And the brunchers think it’s exceeding clever, canny, and good politics for the dems to boldly move to the right. I assume “Collins” means Susan Collins. But I could be wrong.

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    Edit

    I googled the Bluesky poster. I didn’t expect to find anything but I uncovered this gem.

    Daniel Nexon

    Nexon co-edited a volume titled Harry Potter and International Relations, published in 2006, that applies international relations theorizing to the world of Harry Potter and the politics of Harry Potter in general.

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    The fundamental problem with this approach is that it assumes that the Democrats need to make juuuuuust the right policy shifts with red state candidates and that will win over those flyover country rubes. It’s never that the party itself needs to have a greater positive impact on those communities or have an organic presence. A pro-life Democrat isn’t going to win them over if they still feel like an establishment robot that came out of a DNC lab in Washington.

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    Republicans almost blew their own party up in 2016 when they let a massive dumbass actually helm it, genuinely angering the true neocons who tried their hardest to boot him and leading to significant intraparty turmoil

    And Democrats are STILL going to blow their own party up faster

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    Didn’t most of the anti-abortion democrats just get ousted by Republicans anyway? I don’t think there are that many left.