It seems a lifetime ago, but in 2018 Justice Democrats were trying to win contested elections. That was such a fiasco that in 2020 they switched up to trying to beat other Democrats in primaries. That turned out to be pretty hard, too, but what's not hard is record fundraising.
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I'm fascinated by the self-sabotage dynamic in progressive fundraising. To the extent it moves Democratic elite opinion to the left, it perpetuates a status quo where we can't achieve any policy goal. That failure in turn makes for every more compelling stories to fundraise with
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A Congress where there's 40 people in The Squad instead of just 4 is probably ideal for both progressive and right-wing fundraising, which benefit immensely from polarization and paralysis.
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