Rigden Stollen

Democratic Socialists shouldn’t be running in Democratic primaries, just like Republicans shouldn’t be running in Democratic primaries. Our party continues to allow this at our own peril.

WaPo/ABC/Ipsos poll | 4/24-4/28 President Trump approval on the issues ❌Cost of living: -53 ❌Inflation: -45 ❌Iran: -33 ❌Relations with US allies: -32 ❌The economy: -31 ❌Taxes: -23 ❌Immigration: -19 ❌Immigration situation on US-Mexico border: -9

Democratic Socialists shouldn’t be running in Democratic primaries, just like Republicans shouldn’t be running in Democratic primaries. Our party continues to allow this at our own peril.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐌𝐔𝐌-𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐘𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐏 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐏 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐈𝐅 𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐗𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐏 𝟐𝟔𝟐 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝟏𝟕𝟑 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓. 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊’𝐒 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇. 𝘐𝘧 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘈𝘟𝘟𝘌𝘋 𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 262 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 173 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 — 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘍𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘌𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. FiveThirtyEight’s 2021 simulation showed 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 worth roughly 6-12 House seats nationally before any redrawing. Democrats are clustered into urban districts where their votes “stack” — a 90% Dem city district produces the same one Congressman as a 51% Dem district, but it wastes 39 points of vote. Republican voters spread across suburbs and rural counties win 𝟓𝟓-𝟒𝟓 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 — maximally efficient distribution. Combined with state-level Republican control of Texas, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Sun Belt generally, the GOP can draw fewer wasted-vote districts. This week’s SCOTUS ruling — the Louisiana SB 8 decision unwinding race-based gerrymanders — moves the actual map closer to the FiveThirtyEight extreme. Florida’s R+4 alone gets the GOP halfway there. 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝟑𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘵_𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮.

Question How would the Democrats respond if the GOP fielded a candidate with a literal Nazi tattoo?

PETE BUTTIGIEG: "What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?"

HE REALIZES HE’S THE REAL MONSTER

Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.” 🤡