Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
Politics, politics, politics
JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous.
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous.
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
This is very good framing from @gelliottmorris.com. It adds more data to what I've been arguing. Would only add that *attacking Trump* produced these reversals among nonwhite working class (see my piece and thread below).
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is very good framing from @gelliottmorris.com. It adds more data to what I've been arguing. Would only add that *attacking Trump* produced these reversals among nonwhite working class (see my piece and thread below).
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Federal judge orders Trump's masked stormtroopers to stop waging war on Americans:
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Federal judge orders Trump's masked stormtroopers to stop waging war on Americans:
Looking at this a bit more closely, this guy won PRECISELY BECAUSE he raised the "salience" of immigration via attacking ICE raids, and this won by a sizable margin in one of the most important swing counties of all, Bucks County in Pennsylvania.
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Looking at this a bit more closely, this guy won PRECISELY BECAUSE he raised the "salience" of immigration via attacking ICE raids, and this won by a sizable margin in one of the most important swing counties of all, Bucks County in Pennsylvania.
Please note this: Raising the "salience" of immigration actually worked in Dems' favor in one of the most important swing counties in the country. This is more grist for the idea that attacking Trump is succeeding among the nonwhite working class (see thread below).
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Please note this: Raising the "salience" of immigration actually worked in Dems' favor in one of the most important swing counties in the country. This is more grist for the idea that attacking Trump is succeeding among the nonwhite working class (see thread below).
The bizarre media narrative that Dems must choose between anti-Trump and affordability politics reflects a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really unpopular. The way forward is a fusion of the two. They are often one and the same. 8/
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The bizarre media narrative that Dems must choose between anti-Trump and affordability politics reflects a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really unpopular. The way forward is a fusion of the two. They are often one and the same. 8/
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis suggests outlines of an emerging Dem coalition organized around anti-Trump *and* affordability politics. This is doing serious damage to the MAGA coalition. Its success this week undermines the idea of a big Trump 2024 realignment. 7/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis suggests outlines of an emerging Dem coalition organized around anti-Trump *and* affordability politics. This is doing serious damage to the MAGA coalition. Its success this week undermines the idea of a big Trump 2024 realignment. 7/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill attacked Trump relentlessly. They erased GOP advantage w/working class, each getting 50% of noncollege voters, with *huge* gains among nonwhite working class. Same with Zohran.
Anti-Trump politics appealed to working people! 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Anti-Trump politics appealed to working people! 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill attacked Trump relentlessly. They erased GOP advantage w/working class, each getting 50% of noncollege voters, with *huge* gains among nonwhite working class. Same with Zohran.
Anti-Trump politics appealed to working people! 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Anti-Trump politics appealed to working people! 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed. Tariffs, DOGE bloodbath, federal worker firings, killing of NY-NJ tunnel etc are *abuses of power* that *also* hurt the economy. Dems can say both these things. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed. Tariffs, DOGE bloodbath, federal worker firings, killing of NY-NJ tunnel etc are *abuses of power* that *also* hurt the economy. Dems can say both these things. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
There’s a weird tendency in the discourse to treat attacking Trump as evading “real” issues working-class voters care about. But I looked at ads from the winning campaigns: They attacked Trump *and* they addressed material concerns. Because this is *his* economy! 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
There’s a weird tendency in the discourse to treat attacking Trump as evading “real” issues working-class voters care about. But I looked at ads from the winning campaigns: They attacked Trump *and* they addressed material concerns. Because this is *his* economy! 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The basic story we've been told, over and over, is that Dems must choose: Either they act out their Trump Derangement Syndrome or they offer substance. Some Dems told NYT that Ds were squandering an opportunity to offer an "alternative."
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The basic story we've been told, over and over, is that Dems must choose: Either they act out their Trump Derangement Syndrome or they offer substance. Some Dems told NYT that Ds were squandering an opportunity to offer an "alternative."
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
This is insanity. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Zohran's campaign was all about costs and affordability. But he ALSO went hard at Trump's lawlessness. He attacked economic AND authoritarian power. He ran the most pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory. That *complemented* the affordability issue!
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Zohran's campaign was all about costs and affordability. But he ALSO went hard at Trump's lawlessness. He attacked economic AND authoritarian power. He ran the most pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory. That *complemented* the affordability issue!
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” a Dem strategist tells me.
I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” a Dem strategist tells me.
I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The results decisively refute need for false choice between "anti-Trump" and affordability. In exit polls, Spanberger and Sherrill both got 50% of noncollege voters, and both got *huge* majorities of nonwhite noncollege voters. That reverses Trump gains bigly:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The results decisively refute need for false choice between "anti-Trump" and affordability. In exit polls, Spanberger and Sherrill both got 50% of noncollege voters, and both got *huge* majorities of nonwhite noncollege voters. That reverses Trump gains bigly:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
An absurd media narrative in runup to the election said Dems must choose between being "anti-Trump" and running on substance.
The lesson from this election is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The lesson from this election is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An absurd media narrative in runup to the election said Dems must choose between being "anti-Trump" and running on substance.
The lesson from this election is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The lesson from this election is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
you love to see it
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
you love to see it
And now a call for New Jersey already. Running against Trump works, it turns out
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And now a call for New Jersey already. Running against Trump works, it turns out
LOL it must have absolutely killed NYT headline writers to have to write this one
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
LOL it must have absolutely killed NYT headline writers to have to write this one
I'm so old I remember when the Loudoun County results four years ago were treated as an event with world-historical significance
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm so old I remember when the Loudoun County results four years ago were treated as an event with world-historical significance