At this point, can’t have unity without internal recriminations

MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Party policy positioning just doesn't, and can't, work the way that some are treating it as.

Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.

Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.

Exactly

I haven’t watched an extra innings game in the regular season since they brought in the zombie runner, so yeah, this is fun!

seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.

Cultivate within yourself the utmost possible contempt for the far right and only then will their behavior become comprehensible and predictable to you. They’re animals masquerading as people

They hate vaccines not because of any knowledge or experience they’ve had with vaccines, but because it’s a useful vehicle for otherwise-shapeless anti-establishment resentment, directed against people they enjoy attacking (experts, the educated, diverse institutions of higher ed, foreigners, etc.)

You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia