With the voting seven weeks away, and the big FEC reporting deadline 14 days out, let me take a minute to make you really pessimistic about the midterm elections. Source: have been traveling for a year across more lean-R/likely-R districts than the average bookmark magnate.
-
-
Fox News persuades millions of people to live inside its alternate reality, like before. Racism and xenophobia is rampant, like before, and those attitudes are skillfully manipulated, like before. The one thing that has changed is steady economic growth, just like Trump promised
Show this thread -
The terrible things that Democrats said would happen if Trump was elected—nuclear war, economic depression, the total collapse of rule of law—didn't happen. What regular voters see is more of the same: gridlock, political theater, and dysfunction. Life remains precarious.
Show this thread -
On a national level, there is no compelling reason people have to believe that things will be different with Democrats in power. Team Blue or Team Red change jerseys, and life goes on like before. This deep disconnection and cynicism about politics, not Trump, are our enemy.
Show this thread -
I've been pushing the Great Slate so hard not because I think there will be a blue wave, but because I think we might eke out a majority if we back some people from outside the broken political system who know how to connect with voters unreachable to establishment Democrats.
Show this thread -
If you share my pessimism, please add penury to your list of woes in 2019 by giving as much as you can to eleven races that aren't being run by Washington consultants on behalf of millionaire Harvard lawyers. What do we have to lose?https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.