I'm baffled by this strain of thinking (which came up during the Great Slate too) that getting people talking and engaged is some inherent good that should be pursued independent of electoral outcomes. There will never be a more fitting or appropriate time to vilify Momentum.https://twitter.com/sarahljaffe/status/1205776766780006400 …
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The idea that you should do *more* of the thing you did while getting absolutely smushed at the polls should not be your go-to hypothesis. Sometimes you go backwards because you were facing once-in-a-lifetime headwinds, but more likely it's because you ran in the wrong direction.
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The one consolation in being thoroughly trounced in an election is that you learn what doesn't work. A close election doesn't give you that knowledge! So it's dismaying to watch people throw away a valuable and expensive lesson to double down on their pre-existing beliefs.
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What did you learn from so many of your Great Slate candidates losing?
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I learned so many things! A big one was that I did not posess a secret to winning that had been ignored by a haughty Democratic Party
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