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Revolution, Elections, and the Written Word with Walter Rhein (opens the original)
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A party that blames voters for its losses has forgotten what a campaign is for.Republicans tried to throw out 60,000 votes in a North Carolina Supreme Court race, and the Democratic establishment’s answer is to scold the people who “didn’t show up.” Your job is to compel people to vote for you, not to lecture them after you lose. In fact, how you handle a loss tells us everything we need to know:Losing a primary is not the end of anything. Obama lost his first. Francesca Hong came within 4,000 v
SwampWatchers: Truth and Reconciliation (and Reform) (opens the original)
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Who watches the swamp?<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1040" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6jpn!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F
Jon Ossoff Is Not Your Savior (opens the original)
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Barack Obama and Donald Trump could square off in 2028 – and we wouldn’t even have to amend the constitution.<img alt="How Jon Ossoff figured out a formula to excite Democrats : NPR" class="sizing-normal" height="733" src="https://substackcdn.com/image
Abdul El-Sayed Will Be President (opens the original)
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will be our first Muslim President. It’s not a matter of if, but of when.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="476" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OtLt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:ste
Blue McCarthyism: Clinton, Fetterman, Neera Tanden, et al (opens the original)
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I sat down with to flesh out a thesis I’ve been weighing a while.For years, “McCarthyism” has functioned as shorthand — a useful historical analogy for red-baiting and left-punching. My argument to Stephen: twelve years into the Trump era, with Democrats increasingly turning that machinery on their own left flank, the word has stopped being a metaphor. It’s just descriptive now. Stephen agreed, and pushed the thesis further — that the weaponization of antisemitism accusations has become its own
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