And look, Ossoff underperformed Clinton. Why? Even with so much national attention, congressional races are local affairs.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
Comes down to candidate, infrastructure, messaging, vision. But plays out locally. How do you underperform Clinton after last few months?
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You try to pretend like Trump and Pelosi don't exist and offer no vision, which is what Ossoff did.
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Obviously a poor candidate. But recruiting good candidates is really a local thing, at least for congress. You need a bench with depth.
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I agree, but this is all part of a vision problem. Dem elites like Skocpol - and she is one of the worst - want puppets to do what they say.
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So they argue for local infrastructure as a hand wave for their own fuckups, like the ACA and Dodd-Frank.
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Then they crush actual local leadership and use centralized financing muscle to organize the ideas and politics of the Democrats.
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I want more local leadership not to win elections so Skocpol can run her stupid policy network, but bc Americans need representation.
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The problems they are facing are imposed by multi-national corporations. They are national problems. You need a vision to deal with that.
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Politics isn't local b/c Muncie needs a sewage system, but bc Muncie is getting destroyed by FB and Muncie's rep needs to bring that to DC.
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I don't think vision vs. local electoral infrastructure is at all a productive either/or.
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I'm not having that argument, I'm noting that Skocpol and that crew is the problem and are using infrastructure as an excuse for themselves.
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You should know better than to fall for that crap.
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