Jim, I enjoyed your insight. Maybe you can do an autopsy and lay out the whole nightmare of the Democratic Party’s repeated mishandling of this election.
Soon after the Biden inauguration, I was initially inspired by Ruth & Heather, to never underestimate the American people & embrace our political power TOGETHER. David Pepper, after the cruel Dobbs decision, further inspired my almost total embrace of incrementalism. I lived on Substack, daily, hourly, minutely, breathing in encouragements to keep adding my micro-increment to the presumably tsunami-sized increment that would drown the orange puppet, his puppets… and maybe even place a hard kick in the groins of the puppetmaster$$$.
Perhaps you were also inspired by the incrementalists like Simon Rosenberg, Robert Hubbell, Jessica Craven, Steven Beschloss, Scott Dworkin, Rick Wilson, Kate Porter, Marc Elias, Meidas Touch, Robert Reich, Anand G, Mary Trump Media & her nimble-witted Nerds
WE GOT THIS! … except… we didn’t
Thankfully I was reading others on Substack, like you Jim, (Sarah Kendzior, Jared Yates Sexton, Rebecca Solnit, Geoffrey Diehl, Jessica Wildfire), .. and I didn’t enjoy the frequent shade y’all were throwing on the Hopium .. but I am really appreciating your wider & deeper understanding that prevented y’all from being surprised by the disastrous election, and who now offer useful answers to the question: what do we do now??
The incrementalists are offering useless answers —- doubling down on what we were doing before the Nov 5 election in the hope of taking the US Congress back in 2026 & the Presidency in 2028 … elections that will be the American equivalent of the charades staged in Russia & Hungary now …
Keep speaking the hard truth, Jim … yours is a unique and much needed voice.
I suspect that the Democrat’s massive loss to the MAGA crowd was as much a shock to you as it was to me. I mean, the depth and extent of the racism and misogyny that this election reveals in our “melting pot” country is stunning.
Not sure that “non-violent revolution” will be possible here. Progressive ideas and attitudes are more likely coming from other parts of the world for the foreseeable future.
And then there’s the little matter of irreversible climate change.
Jim, I enjoyed your insight. Maybe you can do an autopsy and lay out the whole nightmare of the Democratic Party’s repeated mishandling of this election.
Soon after the Biden inauguration, I was initially inspired by Ruth & Heather, to never underestimate the American people & embrace our political power TOGETHER. David Pepper, after the cruel Dobbs decision, further inspired my almost total embrace of incrementalism. I lived on Substack, daily, hourly, minutely, breathing in encouragements to keep adding my micro-increment to the presumably tsunami-sized increment that would drown the orange puppet, his puppets… and maybe even place a hard kick in the groins of the puppetmaster$$$.
Perhaps you were also inspired by the incrementalists like Simon Rosenberg, Robert Hubbell, Jessica Craven, Steven Beschloss, Scott Dworkin, Rick Wilson, Kate Porter, Marc Elias, Meidas Touch, Robert Reich, Anand G, Mary Trump Media & her nimble-witted Nerds
WE GOT THIS! … except… we didn’t
Thankfully I was reading others on Substack, like you Jim, (Sarah Kendzior, Jared Yates Sexton, Rebecca Solnit, Geoffrey Diehl, Jessica Wildfire), .. and I didn’t enjoy the frequent shade y’all were throwing on the Hopium .. but I am really appreciating your wider & deeper understanding that prevented y’all from being surprised by the disastrous election, and who now offer useful answers to the question: what do we do now??
The incrementalists are offering useless answers —- doubling down on what we were doing before the Nov 5 election in the hope of taking the US Congress back in 2026 & the Presidency in 2028 … elections that will be the American equivalent of the charades staged in Russia & Hungary now …
Keep speaking the hard truth, Jim … yours is a unique and much needed voice.
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F all of them. I cannot. A smiling photo op? Omg.
Incrementalism did not lose
It performed precisely the way it was intended to.
And every single proponent of it OWNS this debacle.
A pox on all their houses.
We’re going to go through some hard times.
I suspect that the Democrat’s massive loss to the MAGA crowd was as much a shock to you as it was to me. I mean, the depth and extent of the racism and misogyny that this election reveals in our “melting pot” country is stunning.
Not sure that “non-violent revolution” will be possible here. Progressive ideas and attitudes are more likely coming from other parts of the world for the foreseeable future.
And then there’s the little matter of irreversible climate change.
Yes .. the ”little” matter of climate catastrophe!!
What a joke. The meeting.