Surprised a bit at the blowback here, given the poll results.
I'll just say I'm with Jesse that Jan 6, the Georgia call, the false elector plots are head and shoulders more important and disqualifying than anything else either candidate has done. It would be the same if the tables were reversed and the candidate with my preferred policies…
Surprised a bit at the blowback here, given the poll results.
I'll just say I'm with Jesse that Jan 6, the Georgia call, the false elector plots are head and shoulders more important and disqualifying than anything else either candidate has done. It would be the same if the tables were reversed and the candidate with my preferred policies did that sort of thing.
And I was happy to hear Katie say what I've been thinking: we have a representative democracy but part of that is we want representatives who are responsive to what the people want. Maybe it'd have been preferable that our chosen candidate _always_ had the right opinion, but that's virtually impossible. The next best thing is that they're willing to listen to the public.
I mean, a consistent theme would this podcast is loud sections of online commentariat isn't representative of the broader audience. Seems that holds on true on Substack as it does on Xwitter.
I think among Problematic folks, there is an enthusiasm gap between Trump supporters and Harris Supporters this go around.
People who used be democrats and are still democrats are like "yeah, another imperfect candidate who wouldn't have been my first choice but whom I expect will act like an adult and uphold the rule of law. Ok, fine."
People who used to be democrats and just came around to the notion of voting for Trump are like people who've recently discovered veganism or CrossFit.
Surprised a bit at the blowback here, given the poll results.
I'll just say I'm with Jesse that Jan 6, the Georgia call, the false elector plots are head and shoulders more important and disqualifying than anything else either candidate has done. It would be the same if the tables were reversed and the candidate with my preferred policies did that sort of thing.
And I was happy to hear Katie say what I've been thinking: we have a representative democracy but part of that is we want representatives who are responsive to what the people want. Maybe it'd have been preferable that our chosen candidate _always_ had the right opinion, but that's virtually impossible. The next best thing is that they're willing to listen to the public.
I mean, a consistent theme would this podcast is loud sections of online commentariat isn't representative of the broader audience. Seems that holds on true on Substack as it does on Xwitter.
I think among Problematic folks, there is an enthusiasm gap between Trump supporters and Harris Supporters this go around.
People who used be democrats and are still democrats are like "yeah, another imperfect candidate who wouldn't have been my first choice but whom I expect will act like an adult and uphold the rule of law. Ok, fine."
People who used to be democrats and just came around to the notion of voting for Trump are like people who've recently discovered veganism or CrossFit.