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L.i.am
@chyron.substack.com

"Polling, in fact, showed that young voters had similar issue priorities as older voters, but Hogg’s elevation was a tribute to the wish masquerading as calculation that Democrats can gain vote share without compromising with the electorate." — Jonathan Chait www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

theatlantic.comThe Democrats Show Why They LostAt a meeting of the DNC, the party seemed to be at pains to demonstrate that it learned nothing from its 2024 defeat.

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L.i.am
@chyron.substack.com

Hannah Arendt wrote that the great victory of totalitarianism was to have replaced all objective analysis with questions of motive: “why did he write this? And why now?” This is why your response cannot be just criticism, it must “say everything about [me]” And you’ve the gall to lament losing

Fijit One
@fijit1.bsky.social

How long before we give up on them entirely? At least he is not in his 70s. If they want to save the Democratic Party, they have about one week to do it.

Blue in Kansas
@midwestdonna.bsky.social

I largely agree with him. Although most Democrats agree with the liberal positions promoted by the DNC, those are not specifically reasons for voting. The party appears to have become a collection of fringes while ignoring the middle and working class interests of a large number of constituents.