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3.5 years after Garland took office.

The point that elected Dems (and emptywheel) miss, evade, avoid, is that strong leadership has a way of influencing downstream events. And whatever you think about his abikity to change the outcome, Garland did not provide strong leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How does someone go to prison if there's not a timely investigation - no functioning prosecutorial team? Everyone knows how long it takes for a case to work it's way through high $ lawyers. Merrick Garland's first task as AG was to protect Trump from E.J. Carroll. Riddle me why that would be.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
And 40 years of clueless Dem pol leaders not even understanding that would be a problem, so they didn't have to figure out how to fight it. They prefer to have no strategy but show up & door knock in Sept/Oct of an election year & hope ppl are mad enough at the GOP.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
When they lost the Dem presence and any Dem narrative to counteract the lies they hear 24/7, entire cultures became much redder. Losing vast swathes of the country means also losing Senators & MOCs. The Dem base should not accept the low effort, ossified "strategy" the old guard has. It's failed.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM