Tom kha losing to Clam Chowder in the first round is an outrage

This has become less true of the party more broadly but Senate Dems just have a loser mindset and no spine.

That and they probably thought Republicans would kill the filibister before funding healthcare and they like the filibuster

You're telling me you milked that man?

In my experience popularists treat issue salience like it's an unchangable fact of nature and not something that can and does shift regularly

It also requires that you have topics that's you're trying to actively make a case for. If you triangulate on a few things you can make yourself seem less threatening so you can convince people on other stuff, if you triangulate on everything you're just being a spineless weasel, which no one likes.

Remembering when he was a guest on the Ezra Klein show

"Virtue signaling" only makes sense as a description if the support for the progressive cause is insincere. If you're actually being virtuous it isn't virtue signaling!