You try to pretend like Trump and Pelosi don't exist and offer no vision, which is what Ossoff did.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
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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I am not going to get into a Skocpol personal argument; my point is that the point is correct: muscles of democracy have atrophied.
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The left/liberal side has so little local infrastructure. Not so for the right/conservative side. Result: every level of power is R.
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Nope. In 2009 every lever of power was held by Democrats. Why did they screw that up? Did they not have enough local infrastructure?
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Actually, yes. Not withstanding the vision thing, they absolutely defunded local infrastructure and literally crushed organizing.
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People have begun to write about this: https://newrepublic.com/article/140245/obamas-lost-army-inside-fall-grassroots-machine …
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
What you are missing is this: to have this anti-populist, insular politics, you need to disempower the local infrastructure because their+
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..soul and tendencies are pretty much opposed to what the DC leadership largely did for the recent past. That's part of your "vision" issue.
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The disempowering of the grassroots and the gutting of local infrastructure is a means of centralizing and carrying out particular politics.
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
And if you want to reverse this--and I venture you do--you are going to need that energy, and that politics to push for this.
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Especially on the left, "vision" does not descend. It rises up, and it is there, once you step out DC/NOVA/NYC. But they've been abandoned.
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