He’s setting up a go at the presidency. He knows that the DNC will want him to lean conservative, but he doesn’t want to be painted as flip flopping or pandering, so he’s leaning into it early. Now when the GOP inevitably calls him a woke far left extremist (or whatever buzz words they’re using by that time) he can point back to this period as proof that he’s “always been a centrist” who can appeal to non-MAGA conservatives.

Of course, he and the rest of the DNC haven’t figured out yet that conservative voters are NEVER going to vote for the LESS conservative party.

Haha I know 🫠

2026

The midterms are going to be brutal; Republicans can’t afford to lose either chamber of Congress.

Wait for it, it’s coming: some variation of “make Greenland great again” political campaign to try to win over Greenlanders so they’ll support annexation by the USA.

Thankfully they get a preview of what making a country great looks like according to Trump.

It makes me genuinely wonder if they’re going to actually try to reprogram it or just do nothing and say they did.

Another real possibility is Musk ours a small team of three or four fresh college graduates on the job knowing that they’ll fail, essentially setting them up to be the fall guys if he can’t avoid repercussions.

Either way the goal is not to benefit the people who rely on social security.

Look, Pennsylvanians know a thing or two about election a representative, that representative having a personality changing life event, and then that representative going on to fix absolutely nothing and in fact make things measurably worse.

But even still they did the math, calculated the risk:reward of their vote, held their nose and cast their ballots.

Just as I have for every election my whole life.

You want real, meaningful change? Support progressive candidates at the local level who will be in a position to get rid of first past the post voting. The two party system that enables the Democrats’ laziness is a direct, organic result of FPTP. Thankfully how voting works is legislated at the local level, meaning if we can get some form of Rank Choice then suddenly Democrats are going to have to care A LOT because it’ll be easier to vote them out without simultaneously voting a Republican in.

But until we can fix the source of the problem (FPTP) damage mitigation will continue to be the name of the game, and it’ll be a game we will eventually, inevitably lose.

We CAN fix it, but we need less cynicism* and apathy.

*I didn’t say “no cynicism” that’d be terrible, I don’t think I could get through the day without a cup or two… But everything in moderation, ya know?

If your support was conditional, then it was insincere. I don’t know what group you think you belong to, but you were never one of “us.” If you would like to be, you can make a good start by growing enough backbone to stand by whatever morals you have instead of “being an ally” and then “not an ally anymore” depending on whatever shit people say to you.

It blows me away that we’re still seeing “both sides” arguments even after the last two months.

Have liberals failed to help us? Yes. Have conservatives failed to help us? No; they can’t fail at something they never attempted to do.

Both sides are not the same.

But if you want to argue that the two party system has failed, we can certainly agree there. The two party system is an organic result of first past the post voting. The good news is that voting is determined at the local level, where it’s easier to get progressives who are willing to move away from FPTP into office. We’re not going to vote away fascism, but voting reform absolutely needs to be one of the many strategies employed against fascists.

(Note: I switched to"liberals" and “conservatives” because your source spans multiple eras with different political parties, including when Democrats and Republicans switched after Republicans adopted the Southern Strategy. Interestingly, the modern Democratic party (post-Southern Strategy) has only held a unified government a mere 5 times)

Count me as another ally you threw away because you can’t see past your own ignorance.

LOL if you think this way then you were never an ally.