When people talk about how badly the Democrats were shellacked in the Obama years they are missing the fact that this was a *sorting* process, where conservative Ds and liberal Rs were getting wiped off the map The Ds lost seats as part of the process of rapidly moving lefthttps://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1356299555919196160 …
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This is why "Dems tacked to the center and lost all their seats!" was such a headass, backwards, galaxy brain narrative The old Democratic Party that had all those seats WAS THE CENTRIST VERSION OF THE PARTY
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All this harking back to "Remember when Democrats were popular because they were a true solidly leftist party" is a fairytale - the time in US history when that has been closest to being true is, in fact, right now
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Yeah look the only way you can call fucking segregation a "social issue" and not an "economic issue" is if you're not in the group being segregated
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