Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders

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Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders - Lemmy.World

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He is objectively one of the people who has failed this moment.

I can only imagine the thought in his head is:

If I say this first, and loudest, it therefore cannot apply to me, because I called it out.

Fucking terminal shitlib brain, everything is optics, history doesn’t exist beyond when I want to A/B test some rhetoric.

The worst part is, it’ll probably work

At this point… basically only on doddering idiot dem voters who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to.

… I wonder if there are more detailed numbers on how his viewership stats break down…

Good. If Cory Booker sees the way the winds are blowing and wants to start pushing in that direction, good.

You can tell Fox News is scared because when I googled his name, I got

Top stories - Fox News- Cory Booker confronted with old clip of himself saying he loves Donald Trump

(The context is that he’s religious and loves all people, including his enemies, but of course they leave that out.)

Google knows who you are and tailors your search results for you specifically, so just seeing the top results on Google isn’t an indicator of a general trend, it’s what they think you’ll click on and/or ads