Mike MasnickNov 13, 2024
Yes. This thread. It amazes me how much of the discourse seems to believe that a few extreme rando voices online, which don't even remotely represent the Democratic coalition are held up as the core beliefs of the Dems.

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Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)

A friend recommended Matthew Yglesias' "Common Sense Democrat manifesto" to me. I think it's pretty bad, but not for the reasons he wants me to. It's not that I want to fight him on any of these "common sense" principles, it's that the premise is wrong. And that clarified something for me. 1/x

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"a few extreme rando voices online" is a straw-man.

As I wrote in another reply on this topic...

It doesn't matter what policies Democratic politicians run on, what matters is what people believe they stand for.

And the Congressman whose advertisement Jon Stewart called "weird" won his election... so dismissing this whole line of discussion based on a straw-man seems very counter productive.

Nov 13, 2024 at 6:18pmWeb