bipartisan asymmetry principle
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bipartisan asymmetry principle
@DerpFlarp
Former imperialist, 379th EMXS. Free Palestine. Professional reply guy. Bad leftist and tweets RIP.



My main takeaway from this was the revelation that Sarah has a book coming out on how to defeat MAGA when Kamala lost following her exact game plan (down to campaigning with Liz Cheney). Tim Miller is only Never Trumper who has actually truly thought about what happened in 24.


I just don't think there's a whole lot of appetite among Democratic voters to be nagged and wokescolded by a GOP lobbyist using quotes that she herself admits were taken out of context when they aren't simply 100% true. 🥴

Joe's a bit of a thoughtless dope and buddies up with alot of right wingers but on a personal level, not the worst person. Hasan is a horrible, amoral chud with vile politics that normal folks are disgusted by. He's shut out of polite society because he's fucking radioactive.







Look, the dumbest thing about all this is that I didn’t and don’t care about Piker. Piker never comes up in focus groups with voters as someone they’re following—the way a Rogan or Tucker or Candance does. I don’t think he’s singularly making an impact on politics in any way commensurate with the attention he’s getting. But I care about Tim. I agreed with @Timodc’s original point that using Piker as a litmus test is dumb. Calling up Jon Ossoff to ask what he thinks about Piker is dumb. It is an unnecessary distraction. But I felt like Tim’s discussion of Piker was too dismissive of some of Pikers more toxic positions. And that was the part I wanted to react to. There’s nothing I can do about the fact that the internet distortion field has overtaken the whole thing. And that people are debating my views in a way that is totally divorced from my actual, very-well documented views. That’s just part of what happens when doing this work. The only thing I can do is keep saying what I actually believe. And what I hear voters saying they believe. But politicians can reach voters who are angry about the Iran war and even about America’s relationship to Israel without going on the stream of a guy who said America deserved 9/11. But, it’s also no doubt true that he’s being elevated by the whole conversation and the right answer to questions about him should probably be “Piker, who?” Because that’s what most voters would say if you asked them.



Centrists: ‘It’s us or Hasan’ Voters, without thinking: ‘Hasan’ Centrists: ‘This debate is pointless. Who even cares about Hasan, really?’



Anyone who listened to this fair, thorough and nuanced discussion on the Bulwark knows that @SarahLongwell25 cares much more about the survival of democracy and the Democratic Party than herself. Listen for yourself instead of taking the bait.












“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan. This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things. thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…













