Totally agree. Raja has been flooding the airwaves with slick commercials. Stratton has been on the ground strategizing with JB on how to deal with Midway Blitz. She gets it on a granular level.
As for the other stuff —it’s our job as voters to put pressure on her where needed after she’s elected.
The way some centrist and even progressive Dems have responded to Trump, you'd forgive a casual observer for thinking he was more popular than Obama and Biden -- who Republicans repudiated from day one and refused to work with. Noah has addressed why that discrepancy exists -- Trump overwhelmingly won the white vote, even in defeat in 2020. That does have some political implications given the Senate and Electoral College structural imbalance but it doesn't excuse rolling over and playing dead.
he got the white evangelical vote. there's been a *ton* of pushback from other christians (catholics, episcopalians, many other liberal christians, and of course the Black church)
While simultaneously trying to court white evangelicals.
I don't doubt Warnock, for instance, but how many of them take money from AIPAC? And they're still dedicated (unconsciously in most cases, I think) to keeping Christianity centered in American life and politics, and the blunt fact of the matter is that Christianity is a white imperialist religion at the core.
Ds try to court moderates. they've given up on white evangelicals. there used to be D pro life pols. there aren't anymore. they've mostly given that up. (I think Cuellar is maybe the last hold out.)
I give Trump credit for cutting the Gordian Knot that was continued production of pennies. That bit of trivia is the only positive thing in his legacy.
Totally agree. Raja has been flooding the airwaves with slick commercials. Stratton has been on the ground strategizing with JB on how to deal with Midway Blitz. She gets it on a granular level.
As for the other stuff —it’s our job as voters to put pressure on her where needed after she’s elected.
The way some centrist and even progressive Dems have responded to Trump, you'd forgive a casual observer for thinking he was more popular than Obama and Biden -- who Republicans repudiated from day one and refused to work with. Noah has addressed why that discrepancy exists -- Trump overwhelmingly won the white vote, even in defeat in 2020. That does have some political implications given the Senate and Electoral College structural imbalance but it doesn't excuse rolling over and playing dead.
esp in IL! where the chances of Rs winning the senate seat this cycle are about 0.
He also got the Christian vote, and Democrats are just as wedded to Christianity's supremacy as Republicans are.
he got the white evangelical vote. there's been a *ton* of pushback from other christians (catholics, episcopalians, many other liberal christians, and of course the Black church)
The evangelical vote IS the Christian vote as far as Democrats are concerned.
Democrats are pretty aware of and interested in courting the Black church?!
While simultaneously trying to court white evangelicals.
I don't doubt Warnock, for instance, but how many of them take money from AIPAC? And they're still dedicated (unconsciously in most cases, I think) to keeping Christianity centered in American life and politics, and the blunt fact of the matter is that Christianity is a white imperialist religion at the core.
Ds aren't trying to court white evangelicals?
Ds try to court moderates. they've given up on white evangelicals. there used to be D pro life pols. there aren't anymore. they've mostly given that up. (I think Cuellar is maybe the last hold out.)
Nicely explained.
Sitting in Vermont we had no idea, yet. (Getting electricity soon....)
So, would Stratton be another AIPAC recipient, like Crockett in Texas?
Stratton has I believe forsworn AIPAC funding. She's pretty pro zionist though. It's the one downside.
We need to get money out of our election. Citizens United was a disaster, is a disaster, for democracy.
I give Trump credit for cutting the Gordian Knot that was continued production of pennies. That bit of trivia is the only positive thing in his legacy.