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Lesley's avatar

great analysis, thank you Parker.

what burns me up about the working-the-refs thing is, it always works. every outlet buys it and scurries further and further right as if that will get them points. how can they not know after all this time that it’s never-ending, that if they prostrated themselves to Candace and Co they’d still draw disgust and loathing for their nonexistent liberalism?

is there any way to put a stop to it? it’s had a large role in landing us in the soup.

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SteveB's avatar

The biggest mistake is imagining that "thinking people" will be turned off by his performance and this will actually work against him and in Biden's favor (I actually heard someone make this argument on MSNBC this morning.) Tens of millions of people are repelled by who he is, but tens of millions are also thrilled by him, and the difference in numbers is just too close to call*. When it's American voters we're talking about, nobody should be saying "Oh, this is just too much" or "Now he's gone too far."

*Given our absolutely fucked-up Electoral College system

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