That's the advantage they've had from making everything into a culture war, right? Every field is treated as valuable at some level. Democrats as a party have been passive because they haven't accepted that framing; they've gone with the flow to an extent but haven't actively contested anything.

This is a brilliant point! And it’s absolutely killing us, not pushing back on their propaganda (or doing any investigation as to what is even real vs astroturfed) is just setting up defeat after defeat.

I agree, especially with how we’ve provisioned funding. Didn’t even to have to kick the stool all that hard for the whole thing to start falling apart.

Now I need to read this!

Thank you! I was really, really angry writing this.

“Elections have consequences”

What does that sentence even mean when Democratic voters went out and delivered a ton of wins mere days ago?

In some ways it was unfair because my experience of cities to live in was Portland and Montreal, which made Columbus a serious pill to get used to. It took about half a decade for me to start liking it here.

Did a year there for my MA! Fell in love with it.

Oh, my beloved smoked meat sandwiches...

"Lions led by donkeys" has taken on a new meaning, I fear.

Thank you! I will admit I wrote while very, very angry over seeing what was happening to the CDC, it might have helped.

Little Zeb Trivia: I drafted 90%+ of this while Ole was asleep on me and battling ear infections. I wrote it all on my phone and just added revisions and hyperlinks at the very end. It was an interesting experiment; we’ll see if I repeat it.

The Onion figured him out years ago

Or a testament to the elaborately crafted echo chambers they live in.

Voters literally just punished Republicans for the shutdown and this is a gobsmacking response to that.

That is also very plausible, frankly