1. What the fuck is Nancy Pelosi doing?
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3. By prioritizing those 43 seats that lean Republican, Pelosi is steering the party far to the right of where the average Democratic voter is.
@ThePlumLineGS has more here:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/18/whats-behind-tensions-between-moderates-progressives-numbers-partly/?utm_term=.265643528199 …Show this thread -
4. The less charitable explanation, argued by
@zachdcarter, is that the old New York machine, still smarting from AOC's win, is seeking payback & also trying, in the words of Mel Brooks, to preserve their phoney-baloney jobs. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/nancy-pelosi-has-lost-control_n_5d2cb605e4b032ea741220ad …Show this thread -
5. Another way to look at this is Pelosi is using the old triangulation model: situating herself as the vital center in opposition to the extreme right (Trump) and the supposedly extreme left (the Squad0.
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6. Leaving aside whatever ideological objections one might have to triangulation, the problem is Pelosi is pursuing triangulation in an age of polarization. Trump isn't afraid to rile up his side & push extreme policies while triangulation waters down opposition
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7. In an age of polarization, triangulation is really self-strangulation. I pursue the argument here: https://www.thenation.com/article/pelosi-trump-squad-moderate/ …
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yeah please let me know when you erase some of those Rep +5 districts and replace them with Dems +16 districts on the map. Do people not understand math. There are 435 seats. The vast majority of them are not in solidly blue leaning districts.. Does anyone realize how much of a
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That's been obvious for some time now.
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Is popular support for impeachment over 50% yet?
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trump was at one of his unhinged racist peaks at the time of those wins though
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