I like this one.
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I don’t know if it was ever really true. It’s just people see a spectrum with the political parties on the two ends of it and imagine that everyone else must be in the middle, when really it’s like a 50-dimensional scatter plot with the political parties big large hypershapes occupying most of the space. The people who are outside of them might be anywhere.
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No, it’s pretty easy to get a searchable PDF out of a hard copy scan.
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I pity the fool who listened in on that call!
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Note that the impeachment proceedings are going to encompass all of the investigations currently open in Congress. So although the cause of the start of impeachment is this whistleblower complaint, the impeachment itself will may be wide ranging.
Edited to account for:
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I don’t think it was ever literally true. But its the spin and received wisdom that came out of the political environment of the 70s through the 90s. There was that rightward shift in the general population, and genuinely a large amount of center right voters and people switching parties. The legitimate left in America shrunk to a pretty small voting block.
So especially for the DNC getting elected meant attracting moderate conservatives chased out of the GOP by Reagan’s plays to the far right (like my dad!), and trying to hang on to a more conservative base. While the GOP could stall the DNC by moderating their newly far right approach in general elections to slow the offloading and peel off more conservative Democrats.
And that worked for a couple cycles, its how Clinton and his generation of Democrats became so central to the party we’re looking at today.
But that situation doesn’t exist anymore. The right moved really, really far right. And the general population has been trending more left and less white for 20 years. So these things still really mean “playing center right”, and there’s increasingly no center right.
One of the things called out in the article I linked is that liberals and reliable Democratic voters are much more likely to identify as “moderate”, even when their actual beliefs are pretty fucking far left. The writer pegs it as displeasure with the “liberal” label and association with the DNC, caused by the same period of conservative growth and demonization.
Reminds me very much of how many prominent women will freely express feminist ideas, even outlining their beliefs with text book definitions of feminism. But stress then that they aren’t feminists.
There’s apparently an internal dispute on that. The congress people in contested districts who recently came out in favor are apparently arguing it should be narrowly focused on Ukraine. While each of the committees wants focus on their investigation and the progressive wing wants wide ranging. Some of those “moderates” are even saying so in public.
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He was quite Sharpe even earlier. Too bad he never visited Wellington when he was still fighting under Wellington!
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. . . and white. If you’re talking Herman Cain or Ben Carson, I think he could still pull out an acquittal.
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Wow! Ned Stark gets around the multi-verse, doesn’t he?
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Definitely. This is not a resignation, but here’s how Nixon went out after he lost his bid for CA Governor (as compared to how he resigned after Watergate):
Yes. There’s nothing preventing the Congressional Dems from opening up a firehose, every day a new reminder to the citizenry that the centrepiece of the impeachment (the Ukraine “favour”) is part and parcel of a larger portrait of corruption and malfeasance. It’s not like the Senate is going to vote for removal on any of it, so just get it out there as a coherent narrative.
Even then I don’t know. Biff might as well have been talking about McConnell as he was about his moron marks when he made this statement in 2016:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html
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If you consider all the redaction fails in the past where they took a PDF or Word document and just drew a black box over the text, or just changed the background color to black, but left the text intact so you could copy and paste it out of the document I would mandate all redacted documents be released as flat images too.
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I really think people should pester Trump about this. Tell Trump that this was incorrect. That if Trump did shoot someone, Trump would lose voters. Keep bringing up that Trump was wrong. Eventually Trump will shoot someone to prove the point, and then finally someone can arrest them.
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"Sir, I’m sorry you shot me, Mr. President, sir, he said with tears in his eyes.
After all, wouldn’t be the first time.
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Oh, yeah, definitely. He’s trimmed his cabinet to be craven “yes men” as much as possible. But he’s making it really obvious he’s disconnected from reality and not fit for office. More than usual, that is.
Yeah, this administration, and Trump in particular, has made that clear, in multiple ways. But in this particular statement there also seems to be an element of “You wanna take me down for this? Hey, Republicans, it’s all for one, because if I do go down, I’m burning the house down with me…”
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Yeah, that was supposed to be wouldn’t.
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Which would likely cause his yes men to double down, because they believe they can control him to better position themselves in an advantageous manner. They may be yes men, but they are also out for themselves. They are yes men only in how it advantages them.
I think he would too. And they’d deserve it. They accept him as party leader and have gone along with all his bullshit. They get what they deserve here.
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Perhaps if he shot McConnell on live television. If it was off camera he would probably apologize for being in the way.
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Trump’s enablers will fight this with every breath until/unless Ruth Bader Ginsberg leaves the Supreme Court and they can jam a young extremist on there. At that point they will likely throw Trump to the wolves and move on to writing their memoirs about how they saved America.
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At the very least he would lose one voter, because people who aren’t yes men don’t likely get close enough to him to be shot.
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