A simple guide to understanding the average American: 1. He is a free market capitalist but is highly distrustful of wealthy elites and big business 2. He is patriotic and is either Christian or influenced by its values but hates being told how to live his life 3. He believes people should be free to live their lives how they want to but hates being lectured that he needs to be approving or affirming of how other people chose to life 4. He likes welfare programs but hates ones that are perceived as taking money from people who work and giving it to people who don’t 5. He supports government programs that help make the cost of living more affordable but hates having his taxes raised to pay for it. 6. He wants the government to be there to help him when he’s down on his luck but also wants it to stay out of his way when things are going well The most successful American politicians have understood these instincts and governed and campaigned accordingly. It’s part of why FDR and Reagan became transformative presidents, and why Clinton and Obama left office personally popular. I’d also argue that the failure to understand these points are why Dems lost in 2016 and 2024 as well as why the GOP underperformed in 2022.

Because the donor and consultant class for both parties are out of touch fools who have never stepped foot outside of the ACELA corridor or the West Coast

So Talarico was at a music festival on the 9th and at a concert on the 10th yet was also discharged from a mental health facility a thousand miles away on the evening of the 10th per your phone call. Do you not realize you just completely undermined yourself

Since it keeps on coming up here in Arizona, here are my thoughts on school choice. I strongly support our system of public school open enrollment and vouchers. My issue is with universal school vouchers. The people most benefiting from it are people who were already sending their kids to private or charter schools and it’s become ridden with waste and fraud. I also take issue with how vouchers can be used to attend schools whose curriculums don’t meet standards for public schools and whose professional certification requirements also don’t meet public school standards. So in essence, my stance is to keep open enrollment and reform vouchers so that they are means tested and can only be used at private or charter schools whose curriculum standards and professional certifications meet public school standards

Between the whole Malinowski debacle and now getting involved in a general election for a Republican, I feel like AIPAC is doing all it can to piss off and alternate mainstream Dems

Only appropriate response as far as I’m concerned is to vote straight blue all the way down the ballot

Not a Dem but no one made your loudest and most active supporters take up insane positions like declaring Mamdani guilty of genocide

If France is neoliberal, than North Korea is libertarian

I have it on very good authority that Talarico is out banging all of Ken Paxton’s mistresses with the hopes of gaining their endorsement. My understanding is he wants to have them at his next rally where they’ll publicly endorse him because he performs better than Ken in every way