Every day I respect Nancy Pelosi more. I'm sorry I ever said a harsh word about her. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/10/pelosi-progressives-twitter-1405763 …pic.twitter.com/Ry1qwe3sNP
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Pelosi could demand that San Francisco be governed by Workers' Councils that relocate bourgeois elements to the gypsum mines of San Bruno Mountain and still be re-elected next year (including by the bourgeois being taken to the gypsum mines to die). But she thinks bigger
Like, remember when @JDScholten came within 10k votes last year of beating Steve King in one of the most conservative districts in the country? Pelosi is trying to help Democrats do that in 2020. Maybe you hate the strategy, but respect the skill of the player
Her more general advice of 'don't put disagreements within your faction on Twitter blast' is
and you should all read @zeynep's book if you haven't already
So, I'm friends with a guy who has to run in a contested seat, and I'm not clear on why you'd be calling him a coward
I wonder if this is a self fulfilling prophecy. People assume going further left will hurt them, a lot of the time it drives disengagement of their base. (As an aside thought). We saw this will Hillary/Sanders and their performances in the rust belt.
We tested that theory in 2018 (which I then believed) with the Great Slate and proved to my satisfaction that candidates get trounced, except for Jared Golden and Scholten, who campaigned very hard and effectively as ideological moderates
Doesn’t this describe the Republican caucus as well? And if so, why don’t Republican Speakers cater to the moderates in their party?
It does! I guess I would put it this way—there is less room for moderates in both parties, but for structural reasons (gerrymandering especially) Democrats need to win most of the contested races to have a majority, while Republicans don't. (Happy to be corrected on this)
I don’t understand how “moderation” came to be equated with living life in a defensive crouch. Pelosi never picks a fight she isn’t sure she can win, and that’s a mistake if you want to build any kind of a movement.
She is, to put it mildly, not a movement person. I get it. Movement politics have not worked well for Democrats for quite a while. But it’s natural for movement types to despise her methods.
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