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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Bill Clinton and Obama were better at not specifically going out of their way to make a show of antagonizing their own base (with the exception of Sista Souljah). Hillary and Biden (especially Biden surrogates like Simone Sanders and Jen Psaki and Karine Jean Pierre) you can SEE the contempt just DRIP off of them. It’s insulting, and it’s going to cost them volunteers and donations, even if most of those voters are in one party DNC rule states they overtly take for granted. There’s a reason why the dems lost the house in 2022 basically entirely in the NYC metro area.





  • Why can’t we ask better of a party that wants our votes, money, and volunteer hours? Post-2016, the DNC has the weirdest possible relationship with its voters, leaning REAL hard into the “Well, it’s us or Comcast” of the whole party duopoly system, and is only made them electorally weaker. The GOP is running a man with 40% approval defending Dobbs, which cuts 60+/40- our way. That we’re not looking at a UK this year-style electoral massacre is an indictment of the DNC, and how the state recognized duopoly system squashes real democracy.





  • A primary hones a candidate and a party’s messaging. The idea that it weakens you is perpetuated by the PR execs who run the DNC, because they don’t want to need to deal with internal discontent about them being shit at running a political party. How much free earned media did Trump get, looking like a winner, defeating his opponents? You can’t buy that kind of media. But the DNC prefers media cycles of “Man accused of rigging last election won’t even allow a primary vote in 5+ states.” It’s just bad optics, pure and simple, and is part of why Biden’s approval is in the 30’s. America has never seen him run a non-basement campaign, where he actually tries to earn their votes, since he was calling voters “fats” and challenging them to fist fights in January of 2020.



  • Remember the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) Hillary thing in 2008 after she lost the primary and was like “Actually John McCain is an honorable man and I’m glad I ran a SUPER racist campaign?” They and Liz Cheney are just the whole party now. I guess we’ll see how “aggrieved woman, angry at you for voting wrong,” does in November as a party platform. I’m optimistic!