In 2022 I said goodbye to an office, a job, a team, and a boss I love dearly. The next chapter of my professional life has been incredible, but I will always love, miss, and be forever grateful for @FLOTUS and team-@DrBiden. Thank you all for everything and cheers to 2023!
"become a Republican" is such a weird line, because the goal of politics is to convert members of the other party to your party, not the reverse.
But there's a faction in Dem politics that cares far more about winning a factional war than actually beating Republicans.
Ryan and his “America deserved 9/11” Piker pals on the anti-Semitic left LOVE a good conspiracy theory. They're our tinfoil hat and grassy-knoll wing of the Democratic Party. Pathetic, sad, vapid, but always there.
Unlike professional armchair activists like Ryan, using X to
Ah, so this was his play. He’s been auditioning to get a contract with post-Bari CNN as a “Democrat” who will criticize Democrats on the set. Well, good luck I guess.
This is the difference between people who cover or talk about politics and those who actually put skin in the game and work in it. Baucus/Landrieu/Nelson were not ideologues or dogmatically "centrist." They merely represented the populations of their states as exceptional
I am supportive of all these independent plays, but given the ninety-seven layers of coordination-without-coordinating it requires to pay off I really think it would be simpler to just broaden the tent and bring back Democrats with Baucus/Landrieu/Nelson-style ideologies.
