Yvette Cooper allowed herself to look smug, and walked into traps. Corbyn didn't.
his past wasn't a liability in the primary. his past is *aspirational* for the people who carried him in the primary.
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and are still carrying him now, to the (really still rather significant) extent that he's being carried at all.
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he's absolutely the apotheosis of the Red Tribe's idea of a winner -- so the hard core will forgive him anything.
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but the overlap between the Red Tribe's idea of a winner and the Blue Tribe's idea of a monster is, uh, extensive.
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yeah, but I'm not sure red/blue is what's going on. Ppl are basically throwing shit at the political establishment
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it's certainly not all that's going on, but you have to have *some* kind of broad appeal in the general
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having half the people love you ten times as much just doesn't cut it
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agreed. Very few ppl in politics seem to understand this.
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that Bill Mitchell psyop seems to actively refute it and believe sum of affect determines the winner in all things
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