this is the thing every one of the 8 are taking huge amounts of heat and yet none of their offices have leaked "oh Schumer totally gave us a pass, please be mad at him not me!" because he didn't, because sometimes you just can't force Senators to do what you want.

Yes, voting for Democrats isn't "cool," and being a good party soldier and shutting up and saying nothing but good things for the candidate in the election feels dishonest (it often is!), but that's how you get the power to have a Dem party that can fight for you.

A good way to do this is also to get a few of your friends together and take over your local Democratic Party! This involves going to a lot of boring meetings but it's *very* possible to do in a lot of the country.

She has the Crit Build of Poasting

2. First, they in my experience genuinely are surprised to find any pro-Israel or Zionist people in the wild in any non-right-wing space. They do activism in spaces that gatekeep away anyone who, say, supports two states, so they overestimate pro-Palestine support even on the center-left.

Absolutely, I just don't know if I think Mamdani has kicked him to the curb

Fwiw I think Lander might be eyeing a higher office run

There are significantly more likely reasons than "AIPAC did it" for the cave.

I have to work with genAI at work and *even the AI person* is like "good God no this is not reliable!"

When you leap to AIPAC as the explanation for something with absolutely no relation to Israel, it is in fact a dogwhistle.

But there is absolutely a perception that the Dems are the bitch cleanup crew and the Republicans are the entertaining chads who get to torment whomever they want without consequences.

I mean, yeah.

To be clear here I'm talking about narrative, not reality, as I think you know.

You can't always crush the enemy but after eight years of being abused with impunity even when the enemy loses the need for catharsis builds. I think people would be a lot more willing to trust in temporary humiliation if they had any real confidence in getting to go supervillain eventually

Devil's advocate though, Trumpian political norms entirely rely on the GOP being the all-powerful every winning dominant party and the Dems being the weak little bitches.