I’m still SMH at Democrats in leadership positions who fail the KISS test when speaking to the public. Reading Newsom’s comments in the HCR thread here…
…gave me a flashback to points made in this video you posted:
HCR quoting Newsom:
He doesn’t believe in the rules. And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done…
…We need to be firm in our resolve…
…We do have agency…
Newsom nodded to President Abraham Lincoln’s famous call from 1862: “The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
I approve of his mocking tweets and hope he keeps that up, because and his minions cannot stand to be mocked. OTOH, his style makes me glad Katie Porter is polling well as a gubernatorial candidate, because she knows how to communicate in a way that connects with most people:
You know what I don’t get? Why does the media love Max Rose so much? And how is he in any way any kind of expert on what Democrats need to do to win . . . anything? He’s won one election so far, and lost two. As a first term incumbent, he couldn’t even hold on to his seat. And it’s not like MSNBC and others are having him on as a “learn from my mistakes” expert. They’re having him on as some kind of Democratic election strategist. Why?
He’s probably not the only one to ask that about, either. Network news tends to have their go-to talking heads, and you got to wonder why they are considered the guy to go to for analysis… especially if they don’t have the best track record in elections like that…
I frankly don’t understand media experts for anything political. “This man has spent the last thirty years being wrong about everything in extremely well-documented ways, so obviously his opinion is the one you want.” It’s like the whole thing is affirmative action for the world’s stupidest men.
Well he doesn’t have as large a platform as he used to, since he parted ways with 538 after ABC acquired it, but he’s definitely still quoted as a “reliable” pollster. Plus he has disciples out there like Harry Enten who are just as bad.
Me, too. I’ve lived in a very red part of a very blue state, New Jersey, and now I live in a blue part of a red state, Missouri. And actually, both New Jersey and Missouri are really more purple than blue or red. Christ Christie, about as red as a politician can get, was governor of New Jersey not that long ago. And Jay Nixon, a Democrat, was governor of Missouri not that long ago. And Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, was a Senator here not that long ago. Hell, California . . . it wasn’t that long ago that Schwarzenegger was governor. The bluest of blue states ain’t all that blue. And the reddest of red states aren’t that red, and would be even less so if it weren’t for political gerrymandering. I’m hoping that what happened here in Missouri this year with the Republican legislature overturning paid sick leave after the voters overwhelmingly voted for it will wake voters up, but I’m not hopeful.
and his minions cannot stand to be mocked. OTOH, his style makes me glad Katie Porter is polling well as a gubernatorial candidate, because she knows how to communicate in a way that connects with most people:
