Not sarcasm.
The deeper question is: are they paying to maintain Trumpism, or do they have some deluded fantasy of a CorpDem/NeverTrump third party in the aftermath?
Nomiki running for office?
Just a single source backing this, but mainstream media took it as credible.
Links in thread.
Read the comments if you dare; donut supernova.
I’m pretty sure anyone working in data-driven politics is paid to not understand things because by saying “I’ve never understood why Ds don’t make voting rights their platform” he is saying “the D’s platform is bad” which is accurate. You can read that tweet two ways: one where Nate Silver is a little cherub boy pondering the nature of the world, or a passive aggressive dig at the Democrats.
Reading their round tables it is the second. Don’t bite he hand that feeds you and all that.
I’m pretty sure it’s a fake/paid account, but hilarious:
And now there’s a Yeonmi Park thread at BB, so I get to do the delicate dance of “yes, the DPRK is an impoverished and illiberal autocracy, but that doesn’t change the fact that the mainstream US perception of the place is utterly disconnected from reality”.
Yay.