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Why does our side so often lose? Most folks on our side would rather get to feel righteous anger and lose, than win. Take the Matt Gaetz saga over the past month, which has been a series of wins for us, yet most folks on our side are still angrily ranting about it in defeatist fashion (thread):

For starters, when Trump nominated Gaetz, it was a clearly defeatible nomination (as proven by the fact that it was defeated). But instead of trying to defeat the Gaetz nomination, most folks on our side skipped straight to angrily ranting about Gaetz being AG, as if it was a done deal.

Far too few of us were trying to help the Democrats defeat Gaetz. Most folks on our side just immediately presumed the loss and moved on to ranting about the presumed loss. Which makes it that much harder for the rest of us to fight and win.

Then we defeated Gaetz,m, and the Ethics Committee made clear it would use the threat of releasing the report to keep Gaetz from coming back to the House. Huge win for us. We got rid of him entirely! Yet most folks on our side just angrily ranted about how the Gaetz report wouldn’t be released.

Then we got lucky and House Republicans released the Gaetz report after all. The people who had been ranting in defeatist fashion about the report being buried were now getting what they wanted! So what did they do? Skip straight to ranting about how Gaetz “got away” with what was in the report.

The kicker is that if Gaetz were arrested tomorrow, these same folks on our side would switch to ranting about how long it took. And if Gaetz were given 20 years in prison, they’d rant about how it wasn’t 30 years. Literally anything that happens, nothing but defeatist ranting.

Most folks on our side only know how to do one thing, and that’s spin every win into a loss so they can feel righteous outrage about it. And you wonder why we can’t get any momentum. When we get a win we actively piss all over it and pretend it’s a loss, instead of trying to build on it.