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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Replying to @matthewstoller
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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Replying to @zeynep
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
Oh come on. This was not Obama's mistake, it was his strategy.
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I like Micah and his reporting is good. I just think the centralization of power is consistent with a vision.
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Which is what I said upthread. 
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