This is zooming out a little, but don't you see a problem with the republicans taking control of the country, drastically moving far-right every time, and then the opposition coming back in and mildly steering back to the left? You're able to extrapolate and say "that's good!"?
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Replying to @HowlinFantods @HeerJeet
By 2012, American policy was to the left of where it had been in 2000. But regardless, the debate isn't about what's "good" - it's about what voters want.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet
We've got a climate catastrophe on the horizon and are feeding the a dumpster fire gasoline. Nominating a centrist like Bloomberg is like swapping the gasoline for kerosene and then celebrating the return to normalcy.
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Replying to @HowlinFantods @HeerJeet
???? Climate and guns are the two issues where Bloomberg’s positions are undeniably progressive. He wants to replace all coal plants in ten years, have 80 percent of power provided by clean sources by 2028, and cut carbon emissions in half.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet
I think you're actually just a moderate republican and maybe that explains why you think "by 2012, American policy was to the left of where it had been in 2000" is good enough, as though it won't just swing harder to the right after a republican billionaire buys the election...
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Replying to @HowlinFantods @HeerJeet
I'm not saying "it's good enough." I'm saying your portrait of American politics as GOP taking over, moving the country far right and then Dems steering it back a little leftward, but not as far as it had gone right, is not an accurate portrayal of the GWB/Obama years.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet
Perspective. You're sitting in the center/center-right of that spectrum. I'm sitting on the left. That's an extremely accurate picture of what happened from my view. And look at the consequences:pic.twitter.com/pdY2BekJCo
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Replying to @HowlinFantods @HeerJeet
Using a graph that ends in 2015, and doesn't include everything that's happened since - including the overwhelming triumph of moderate Dems in the 2018 House elections - is just a bad-faith argument, and not worth engaging with.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HowlinFantods
Thermostatic reaction to the most unpopular president in modern times is hardly a ringing endorsement.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @HowlinFantods
If it was just thermostatic, Justice Democrats and other progressives wouldn't have done as poorly as they did in House races in 2018.
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You should ask @karpmj about this. He has some numbers.
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