Originally published at: The Three Horsemen Of The Trump II Apocalypse
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And don’t forget - Supreme Court tryouts are in session.
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@DavidKurtz, I really appreciate the way you craft the morning memos. The 3 horsemen approach works for me, as does observing. We all just have to wait and see. Your long-term vision, as opposed to hot takes, keeps me coming back to TPM every day.
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This is first of all to take credit for what Democratic votes accomplished with an eye to future elections. But it’s as much to prevent them from being canceled by Trump and the Republican Congress. Different projects are more or less easy to cut or cancel. And many of these factories and manufacturing enterprises will be protected by Republican members of Congress because no one likes losing jobs in their states or districts. But it’s critical to start doing this now.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Now we actually have to do some party building. Being a member of a party is not being the passive recepient of a PR campaign.
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That dosent look like Trump.
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David, you can keep shaping MM however you please. I certainly trust you and I’ll wager my attitude is widely shared.
Meanwhile, I’m just glad the cabinet nominees have so many sex-related skeletons in their closet, so the lascivious MSM actually covers them. If they were all Boy or Girl Scouts with awful beliefs, there would be a massive shrug.
(Comparable to Stormy Daniels and E. Jean Carroll vs., well, everything else when it comes to tcf.)
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From Josh’s “My Kingdom for Some Scorecards” post on the front page:
Added to that, the country is now covered with embryonic factories, businesses, economic redevelopment projects and more courtesy of Joe Biden’s CHIPS act and the Inflation Reduction Act. Most of them are only just starting to get off the ground. And they’re disproportionately in Red States or areas of Trump strength. There needs to be a concerted and consistent and voluble effort to brand these as projects and jobs brought to you by Democrats or Joe Biden, the precise mix there is open to debate.
Harris praising Biden’s achievements for the economy didn’t work, because most voters are self-centered and not that altruistic.
Very few people who aren’t economists or political junkies wake up in the morning, read the latest employment report in the news, and say “Hey, it’s great that a bunch of people I don’t know have jobs now!” Voters care about their own situation right now, not how well others are doing. We need to be more realistic about that.
I don’t think the rate of inflation matters to most voters either. Nobody is going “Yay, the inflation rate is lower now than it was last year” when prices are still too damn high and inflation only moves in one direction.
The scorecard idea for laying down a marker at the present moment is still worth trying, but I think it’s a losing battle to convince people to vote for Democrats because our polices have helped someone else. We need to adopt Trump’s strategy of promising benefits to every single voter directly. And just lie a bit less about what’s possible.
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Add my voice to the appreciation. Small as it is, TPM is the best national-political news shop going. JM has also been on a roll since the election imo. Super-level headed, never oversimplifying, always clear.
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I woke up this morning from a nightmare that was a perfect congealed mess of our approaching Fourth Reich and the bread and circuses that got us here. I was a finalist for a book award but to win it I had to wrestle the other five finalists. Luckily I woke up in a sweat before the match began.
That’s what passes for sweet dreams these days.
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Nope, and not meant to.
Weasels are smart, tough, and resourceful; in general they are much better critters than the people to whom the moniker ‘weasel’ is typically applied.
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We need to focus less on what we are saying and more on what people are hearing.
The NR article someone linked to the other day is spot on here.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox
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We’ve been at similar points of flux in past presidential transitions
Actually I think not. When did we ever have a president who would not sign the required ethics documents for the transition. I think this is a first.
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