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As we get closer to the midterm elections, and if trump's approval continues to nosedive, what's he gonna do? As crazy as he's been before, we ain't seen nothin, yet.

I'm so proud of you, Sis.  You're as courageous as Matt Damon, navigating yourself through all those deep seas of sperm. I got on a "how badly are Democrats screwing ourselves?" kick last night and watched a bunch of videos.  Some of which you won't want to see. The theme of this thread is Big Tent Energy.  And at the core of it is the idea that Democrats have to unite moderates and liberals to win.  And moderates are going to outnumber liberals .  That's not politics or ideology or my own preferences.  It's arithmetic, based on the charts above.  In 2024 it seemed like maybe Zoomers were taking a turn to the right by going for Trump in larger numbers than expected.  Maybe.  But now it seems just as likely it was a reaction to Bidenflation and Biden age.  And in some cases to Biden and Harris not being liberal enough.   This 2026 Gallup update of the long term ideological trends I posted above is encouraging to liberal me. So in 2026 28 % of voters say they are liberals.  An all time high.  35 % of voters say they are conservative, an all time low for Gallup.  The rest are moderates.  On the face of it, whoever gets the moderates wins, as Sean Trende said in that video from RCP above. 59 % of Democrats say they are liberal, up from only 25 % in 1994 when Clinton ruled.  I think that explains why both John Fetterman and Francesca Hong have problems.  What works for a majority of Democrats simply does not work for the nation as a whole.   You won't want to watch that, Sis.   Swallowing those rough seas of sperm is more than enough public service for now.  😍  You don't have to swallow Fetterman, too. But Fetterman is NOT saying he does not want to be a Democrat.  The opposite.  He is saying he wants Democrats to win.  And in 2024 we had a problem.  There is no question that "defund the police" and "abolish ICE" were not good messages in 2024, if the goal was winning.  He talks about how he traveled a lot stumping for Harris in 2024 and he knew there was a problem.  Recall that Pennsylvania was the only swing state that lost a Democratic Senate seat in 2024.  It could have been far worse.  Democrats almost lost Michigan.  And Nevada.  And Arizona.  And Wisconsin.  That fact backs up what he is saying.  If we can't keep Pennsylvania, we sure as shit can't elect a liberal in West Virginia.    Fetterman is saying things that he knows appeals to moderates in Pennsylvania.  A Pennsylvania Republican elected in 2028 may be more fashionable.  But we won't like the way he votes better. I think the problem with Fetterman is he is telling liberal Democrats - the majority of the party - that we are wrong.  Of course that is not a popular thing to say.  No doubt people at the margin will hear it and say, "He's an asshole," like El Sayed said.  Fetterman managed to win in a swing state in 2022.  It's not clear El Sayed can do that yet.  Stated differently, John Fetterman is no Bill Clinton.  And he's no Raphael Warnock or Jon Ossoff, who actually vote more conservative but are beloved and BDE.  Poor guy! El Sayed: Abolish ICE The story, or wishful thinking, going around is that El Sayed is a new Bill Clinton.  Clinton was the other speaker when El Sayed gave his graduating commencement address.  The story going around is that Clinton said to El Sayed, "If you speak like that, you should be in politics." We'll know soon.  I was surprised.  There's a YouGov poll out that say about half of America is open to abolishing ICE, and only 40 % or so oppose the idea.  The pro-immigration stance El Sayed articulates in that video is wildly popular these days, after 2+ years of Trump Cruelty.  And El Sayed's family embodies the idea that you come to America to work hard and make America better. My main point is that what you see with El Sayed is a liberal building a coalition with moderates on his terms in real time.  What you see with Fetterman is a guy who votes liberal alienating liberals.  I think El-Sayed is a better politician. That little gem was actually spoken by El-Sayed in 2018, during the Guv race.  He did apologize after he said it.  But that GOP sound bite writes itself.  It's pretty much Exhibit A in Fetterman's case that Democrats should not engage in political suicide.  Who's the asshole now? The context is the statement was directed to a specific Republican, Patrick Colbeck.  Colbeck is a 2020 election denier who made a right-wing election denier video with The Pillow Guy.  He ran for Guv in 2018.  He was baiting El-Sayed about how he's part of the Muslim Brotherhood who wants jihad in America.  El Sayed took the bait, then walked it back.  It's the equivalent of Bill Clinton saying, "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is."  Only worse. I feel confident that El-Sayed is a pretty gifted politician.  He just proved it.  No other politician has survived $60 million in AIPAC and special interest money and still won. Francesca Hong seems more like the anti-Fetterman.  Every video I have seen so far she mostly spouts lefty jargon when she is challenged.  Which is fine with me.  But there's a reason Democrats are worried that she won't be persuasive to moderates.  We'll see.  Polymarket gives El-Sayed a 60 % chance of winning and Hong a 60 % chance of losing. It does seem like El-Sayed and Hong will have the wind at their backs, if they don't make a lot more unforced errors like the one I quoted above.  Chucky S and Abdul are now having a love fest.  It warms my heart.  Almost as much as your courageous public service to New York's Mayor.    

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