No, but the fact that FDR’s leftist policies established such a long run for Democrats in the house and such a long sustained relationship with the working class proves my point.
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Democrats came to power in the US house w the energy of FDR’s New Deal in 1931 and held power continuously until 1995, with the exception of 2 (isolated) 2-year periods.
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Is it ‘amazing’ though?? Really… ?? 🧐
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But also — Johnson is literally a shell of a man. He is completely subservient to Trump and has no substance outside of that. Literally nothing he says has meaning unless he is a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Thune clearly knows this
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I’m not saying no good things happened, but it still didn’t build a sustainable quality of decent living for working people or the political trust that doing such could have established
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Yes, but these points are related. We need politicians to embrace left policies that are actually very popular w the base AND we need to run candidates with the political instinct to not ‘punch the left’ but rather the consultant class who the actual base loathes
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But deregulation led to the vast inequality we have today and all the problems that come with it. I’m not saying they were the greatest villains ever, but I am saying that if the left today can’t understand that a large part of its problems are rooted in that era, there is no hope for them
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Which is indicative of their failure — if you’re a left government and the working class doesn’t know it, your policy focus is out of whack and you also don’t understand the rhythm of contemporary politics.
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It’s amusing seeing recent transplants to the Upper West Side (presumably) think they have a snowball’s chance in hell at winning this race 😂
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People who are being crushed by housing costs don’t care if officials work on long term increases in housing supply. They want help paying rent NOW. They’re not necessarily opposed to the former but if politicians can’t realize that the latter is MUCH more important to them, they lose voters’ trust