It's interesting to see all these people coming out with really detailed roundabout ways of saying the moderate side has no leadership and is becoming a career graveyard. Even Yang is being brought in on CNN as if he's a de facto dem leader because the void is so pronounced.
I wonder if the simple inability to launch and sustain new political careers is what will end up leading to a revolt within the party.
Nobody can launch a political career cause young, politically involved people want them to actually stand for something. It's why the Squad has mainstream appeal (for better or worse), and if Dems had any sense (they don't), they would let them be in the drivers' seat of the part (for better or worse).
It’s interesting to see all these people coming out with really detailed roundabout ways of saying the moderate side has no leadership and is becoming a career graveyard.
The Chapos shit on Beto at every opportunity. But he did what so many leftists only talk about. He went around the entire fucking state campaigning. He's been barn-burning for years, glad-handing and organizing. The man's a workhorse. And for his efforts, he's flipped two of the biggest counties in the state to solid blue.
This, after watching the Dem establishment strike out in the state for decades, by sending down the same loser consultants to do the same loser campaigns.
If anyone in Texas knows how absolutely useless the DC crowd is, it's my boy O'Rourke.
I wonder if the simple inability to launch and sustain new political careers is what will end up leading to a revolt within the party.
The folks that do the labor run the show, whether they realize it or not. Whether that work is pure Mayo Pete grifting or actual mobilization of the public remains to be seen. But in the end, the real revolt will be lead by the political workers. The Vanguard, as it were.
I don't think it's that surprising that Beto sees this. His senate campaign basically followed his advice here to a tee. He definitely strayed a bit from that in his presidential run, which is likely why he failed and why he lost a decent amount of his early support.
But despite his milquetoast politics, his understanding of strategy is pretty on point. He just needs better policy proposals that actually help working people.
Beto would have won the Senate election if he was pro-gun. That is my electoral hot take.
You're not wrong. That's one of the policy failures he has. But he truly believes gun restrictions will help. So by going all in on gun control, he's still following his own advice.
The biggest point here, along with the ground game, is that voters can smell a focus-group derived candidate/position from a mile away. The Dem establishment behaves like constructing a mathematically “average” centrist candidate will make voters go “hmm, yes, this candidate must be good because he represents an amalgamation of the various demos of this district,” when they really just think “this guy can’t give a straight answer on what he believes in, he must be hiding something.”
Nothing but love and respect for my boys at the Texas Tribune.
They're shameless Libs, but still the best source of statewide news I've read in my lifetime.
