My favorite "exit poll" stat comes from CNN, where they asked voters whose top concern was "protecting democracy" who they voted for. Trump, 50-48. Gotta love it.
I am happy for the Republicans and I hope they govern better than I believe they will.
Something I dislike strongly today is that campaigns winning narrow victories still believe they have sweeping mandates. See Joe Biden thinking he's LBJ+FDR and providing the Elizabeth Warren administration even though he won by about 250,000 votes in the blue wall. That is the same margin Donald Trump will win with.
Republicans claiming this as a sweeping mandate while winning the popular vote by less than Hilary Clinton taxes the credulity of the credulous. But they have all the power, and I fear it will be used against the good. That his worst impulses will mar our Department of Justice, our support for Ukraine and Israel will evaporate, and our public health agencies will go crazy under tzar Kennedy. I fear he will demonstrate his brand of economic illiteracy and implement across the board tariffs. I saw today that one of Trump's economic advisers said Tariffs were not inflationary, just a one time price adjustment, or something like that. 20% total inflationary effects over 4 years slaughtered Joe Biden's approval rating and made a Democratic victory in 2024 impossible. If that were to happen all at once, it would be cataclysm for the macro economy, working families, and Donald Trump's approval ratings. As a Democrat that would be an electoral blessing. But as an American I hope our fellow citizens will not have to suffer that remarkably poor policy proposal.
I was happy to see Ritchie Torres call out the far left. I agree. We should dispatch with them at breakneck pace. They provide us as much electoral help as Marjorie Taylor Greene does the Republicans. The Democrats should get back to Clintonian centrism and economic moderation. I will certainly not be voting for any radicals in any primaries. We have a bench full of superstars and we should use them. Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg (less so), Wes Moore, Andy Bashear. All of them could have bright futures as popular centrists.
One small personal note. I'm gay. And for a long, long, long time the Republicans used us as punching bags. Crazy freak-shows trying to impose our weird lifestyles on everyone else. This cultural ridicule has led to thousand of suicides and oceans of tears by bullied children.I am so sad for my transgender brothers and sisters going through the same thing now. I'm not saying people don't have valid points on taxpayer funding or sports games, but it's more than that. They are used as scary caricatures. While most trans people just want to live they're lives and be left alone like the rest of us. To not be demonized. New congresswoman McBride will likely be mistreated by some of her colleagues on the right side of the isle. And that saddens me.
The Republicans have so much opportunity to do something here. But I have a feeling that, as Donald Trump almost always does, he'll blow it.
Hell no. He’s a disgusting, vile, adjudicated rapist who has sold us out to Russia, gleefully used his bully pulpit in the most irresponsible of ways, and purposefully pitted Americans against each other. I could not design a worse human if I tried.
And you believe this is a persuasive argument how? If you’re just venting, happy to provide you the space up to a point. But if you think you’re making an argument, I believe that that one was tried yesterday, and lost in a landslide.
Sadly yes, although that makes it no less true. You know, the only positive thing to come out of 10/7 was the unity that Jews around the world felt. Trump - the great divider - is going to destroy all that. The same way many former Evangelicals were turned off and drifted away when people in their churches start singing Trump’s praises, despite the fact that he is an anathema to everything they ever professed to believe. I get that Bibi et al is going to have to suck up to Trump, fluff him up, stay on his good side - (because he is a profoundly damaged narcissist and that strategy literally is necessary for Israel’s survival), but if regular Jews start reinventing or whitewashing this guy and singing his praises at every turn I (and the overwhelming majority of American Jews) are just going to be sick. Use him, fine. Don’t reinvent him as anything other than the monster he is though. And expect betrayal from him - because it’s in his nature.
My favorite "exit poll" stat comes from CNN, where they asked voters whose top concern was "protecting democracy" who they voted for. Trump, 50-48. Gotta love it.
I am happy for the Republicans and I hope they govern better than I believe they will.
Something I dislike strongly today is that campaigns winning narrow victories still believe they have sweeping mandates. See Joe Biden thinking he's LBJ+FDR and providing the Elizabeth Warren administration even though he won by about 250,000 votes in the blue wall. That is the same margin Donald Trump will win with.
Republicans claiming this as a sweeping mandate while winning the popular vote by less than Hilary Clinton taxes the credulity of the credulous. But they have all the power, and I fear it will be used against the good. That his worst impulses will mar our Department of Justice, our support for Ukraine and Israel will evaporate, and our public health agencies will go crazy under tzar Kennedy. I fear he will demonstrate his brand of economic illiteracy and implement across the board tariffs. I saw today that one of Trump's economic advisers said Tariffs were not inflationary, just a one time price adjustment, or something like that. 20% total inflationary effects over 4 years slaughtered Joe Biden's approval rating and made a Democratic victory in 2024 impossible. If that were to happen all at once, it would be cataclysm for the macro economy, working families, and Donald Trump's approval ratings. As a Democrat that would be an electoral blessing. But as an American I hope our fellow citizens will not have to suffer that remarkably poor policy proposal.
I was happy to see Ritchie Torres call out the far left. I agree. We should dispatch with them at breakneck pace. They provide us as much electoral help as Marjorie Taylor Greene does the Republicans. The Democrats should get back to Clintonian centrism and economic moderation. I will certainly not be voting for any radicals in any primaries. We have a bench full of superstars and we should use them. Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg (less so), Wes Moore, Andy Bashear. All of them could have bright futures as popular centrists.
One small personal note. I'm gay. And for a long, long, long time the Republicans used us as punching bags. Crazy freak-shows trying to impose our weird lifestyles on everyone else. This cultural ridicule has led to thousand of suicides and oceans of tears by bullied children.I am so sad for my transgender brothers and sisters going through the same thing now. I'm not saying people don't have valid points on taxpayer funding or sports games, but it's more than that. They are used as scary caricatures. While most trans people just want to live they're lives and be left alone like the rest of us. To not be demonized. New congresswoman McBride will likely be mistreated by some of her colleagues on the right side of the isle. And that saddens me.
The Republicans have so much opportunity to do something here. But I have a feeling that, as Donald Trump almost always does, he'll blow it.
It’s not an argument. I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. But it is a truthful observation.
Hell no. He’s a disgusting, vile, adjudicated rapist who has sold us out to Russia, gleefully used his bully pulpit in the most irresponsible of ways, and purposefully pitted Americans against each other. I could not design a worse human if I tried.
And you believe this is a persuasive argument how? If you’re just venting, happy to provide you the space up to a point. But if you think you’re making an argument, I believe that that one was tried yesterday, and lost in a landslide.
Sadly yes, although that makes it no less true. You know, the only positive thing to come out of 10/7 was the unity that Jews around the world felt. Trump - the great divider - is going to destroy all that. The same way many former Evangelicals were turned off and drifted away when people in their churches start singing Trump’s praises, despite the fact that he is an anathema to everything they ever professed to believe. I get that Bibi et al is going to have to suck up to Trump, fluff him up, stay on his good side - (because he is a profoundly damaged narcissist and that strategy literally is necessary for Israel’s survival), but if regular Jews start reinventing or whitewashing this guy and singing his praises at every turn I (and the overwhelming majority of American Jews) are just going to be sick. Use him, fine. Don’t reinvent him as anything other than the monster he is though. And expect betrayal from him - because it’s in his nature.