Penrod

You’re doing the same thing you are criticizing others for: giving many a free pass because you want to focus the guilt on someone. Jill is culpable, as are a lot of people in the Administration, in the Democrat Party and in the MSM.

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Latino men aren't turning out to be the leftist voting bloc that they were counting on.

The end.

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I think this is a much better summary (courtesy of poster ScottFowler in another thread)

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The 2024 election was not just a contest between populists and elitists, not even primarily a contest between left and right. The crucial dynamic was strength versus weakness. Trump gave the appearance of strength. Biden—and yes, Harris, too—gave the appearance of weakness. This had to do with Biden’s age; it was mostly about the sclerosis of his party.

There is a body of thought that we’re entering a post-progressive era. A few months ago, I reviewed a brilliant book on the subject, The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by the British philosopher John Gray. A few days ago, in the Wall Street Journal, Eric Kaufmann of Buckingham University offered a partial Cliff Note version of the argument when he wrote: The decline of woke isn’t merely a “vibe shift.” It marks the end of the 60-year rise of left-liberalism in American culture. We are entering a post-progressive era.

Woke refers to an ideology of equal outcomes and emotional-harm protection for minorities…It energized a suite of policies known as diversity, equity and inclusion, whose roots lie in older racial-sensitivity training and affirmative-action programs. It is now in retreat. [Emphasis mine.]

It is obviously more complicated than that. There were other Democratic tendencies in addition to identity politics that propelled the secular slouch toward weakness. There were also the rise of feminism (and concomitant dissing of men), and arrant litigiousness. These were subtle tendencies, until they weren’t…until they became the battle cry of the 2024 campaign: “Kamala is for They/them. President Trump is for you.”

Decades ago, Chris Matthews identified the Republicans and Democrats as the “Daddy” party and “Mommy” parties. It was eerily accurate then and now, and it’s probably not going to change. Democrats can’t, and shouldn’t, remake the basic DNA of their party. There is too much right about the basic humanity of it. There does need to be a rebalancing, though. The aggrandizement of women, minorities and lawyers has to be modified and rethought. The excesses are going to have to be excised.

Kaufmann notes, accurately, that the 60-year effort to create equal rights—for blacks, for women, for homosexuals, for immigrants of every hue—produced some brilliant social improvements. In fact, it was a smashing moral success…and then, the Democrats took it too far, fr from equality of opportunity to equity of results. Read through any Biden Administration document and you will see the word “equity” used—consciously, foolishly—where previous Democratic Presidents would have used “equality.” Words matter; the Biden staffers were tilting away from freedom toward a slushy socialism by fiat.

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Can anyone read that and say that the entire left wing is radical?

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Lmao of course you’ve been reading him for too long. Such a “moderate” you are. Nah just fake

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I’m not a moderate, and no one on Yglesias’ comment section thinks I’m anything but a full on right wing nut job. I’m a small government conservative who is intellectually curious and reads opinion across the political spectrum…as you should, too. :spank:

Not even close. How about the Obama Administration spying on the Trump campaign based on opposition research paid for by Hillary Clinton who was in his cabinet at the time? And the Obama Administration KNEW it was phony bullshite.

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Completely ending SALT would a large amount of needed revenue

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Terrible idea! States need revenue, and the taxes to raise that revenue should not be taxed by the Federal Government. I like the idea of a cap because otherwise a socialist state, like California, could go full on socialism and the feds would get no income tax.

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There is no more powerful “moderate” voice or stance in the Democratic Party. You only have varying shades of radical Leftism.

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That's just not true. Have you read Abundance? In it Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson propose a platform that is certainly not radical leftism. And can you give me any opinions of Matt Yglesias that you think are radical?

I don't agree with these guys, but their most radically left views are that CO2 is a problem and we need affirmative action. All of them believe the defund the police movement was stupid. Yglesias knows that men pretending to be women are men.

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I think he's gone. His raw measurables are elite. His numbers aren't great this year, but he's improving steadily after an injury, has his velo back, and his ceiling is very, very high.

MLB will risk a high draft pick on that sort of player.

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This is a good analysis. I’ll add that if he stays it’s because he is being paid very well.

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I wish he would’ve went off more instead of repeating himself 5 times.

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I kept checking to see if the video had started over. :lol:

I told some on here that the fraud of a trillion dollars or a half trillion dollars was nonsense. That’s not how politicians steal. They steal through perfectly defensible contracts given to their friends who kick back to them.

Kathleen Blanco’s campaign manager flew her husband all over in his private jet. When Katrina hit he was awarded the contract for coastal reclamation. The Blancos got to live high on the hog and the contributor got rich.

That’s how politicians “steal”. There’s no reason to steal from the social security system in a way that could get you caught and convicted. Sometimes an Edwin Edwards comes along and is more brazen, but you see where that got him.

And they’re about to give us the list.

Number 7 will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!