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.
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Remember two years ago, when Trump was reeling from one crushing blow after another, and it seemed like a matter of days before he would topple? We were highly confident in a Democratic victory not just because of politics, but because of math! The models all converged.pic.twitter.com/mSGlrQPMwp
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After the fact, it turned out that maybe we didn't understand the political moment like we thought we did. But none of the prognosticators lost their jobs, or even lost confidence in their ability to predict American politics. And the forecasts look great once again! Blue wave!pic.twitter.com/swJfd6sPW0
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But the fact is, none of the underlying facts that got Trump elected have changed. People remain horribly disaffected by national government and see it as run by a cynical bunch in the hands of corporate money. Wages are stagnant like before. Infrastructure sucks like before.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Both sides are NOT the same and shame on your for saying they are. I don't know what TF kind of "resistance" you and your kind think you are running, but I know for damn sure y'all are helping the GOP retain their stranglehold on our government. I ain't got time for that bullsht.
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I didn’t say both sides are the same, nor do I believe it.
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Yet you say "Team Blue" and "Team Red" are interchangeable, and urge support for candidates from outside of the "broken political system who know how to connect with voters unreachable to establishment Democrats." So I am confused as to your end game.
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I am trying to convey how national politics appears from the vantage point of voters in the districts where I have spent the last 12 months working to get Democrats into Congress.
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The point of supporting these "non-establishment" Dems in particular? Are you saying that they are uniquely situated to win their districts, and, if so, why? Why couch the your argument in terms of cynicism, and say trump is not the enemy? I really am thoroughly confused.
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