#1. Democratic Party politicians have to accept that political theatre is here to stay and #2. Democratic Party voters have to LET them engage in political theatre. "High brow" is for suckers. Always has been. Always will be.
#1. Democratic Party politicians have to accept that political theatre is here to stay and #2. Democratic Party voters have to LET them engage in political theatre. "High brow" is for suckers. Always has been. Always will be.
Despite where it's coming from, I pretty much agree with the philosophy of Ingrid Lewis-Martin here: “I’m not Michelle Obama. When they go low? We drill for oil. I’ll meet you down in the subbasement."
We need to be a more outwardly aggressive party. Leaning back and saying "Well, our norms and institutions won't allow us to do X, Y, Z" is plainly not working.
The thing is that this isn't low brow, Trump is being overtly corrupt and building an oligarchical government. If you want Democrats to do that fine, but the delineation here is not between ruthlessness and Pollyanna, it's between blatant violation of core constitutional responsibilities and a modicum of respect for them. Trump doesn't have the power to just not enforce the Tik Tok law, but he called the CEO and told him if he ran an ad for him he'd do that. It's plainly both unconstitutional and illegal, and that sort of quid pro quo in the WH is the kind of things that cause democracies to collapse in on themselves quickly. If we have to play by the same rules oh well, but we're trading a conservative oligarchy for a liberal one.
#1. Democratic Party politicians have to accept that political theatre is here to stay and #2. Democratic Party voters have to LET them engage in political theatre. "High brow" is for suckers. Always has been. Always will be.
We have to reinterpret Michelle Obama’s often-quoted words, "When they go low, we go high."
My take: "When they go for the gut punch, we need to go for the jugular!"
Someone once said on DailyKos, “When they go low, kick ‘em in the balls.” It’s been my political philosophy since.
Despite where it's coming from, I pretty much agree with the philosophy of Ingrid Lewis-Martin here: “I’m not Michelle Obama. When they go low? We drill for oil. I’ll meet you down in the subbasement."
We need to be a more outwardly aggressive party. Leaning back and saying "Well, our norms and institutions won't allow us to do X, Y, Z" is plainly not working.
The thing is that this isn't low brow, Trump is being overtly corrupt and building an oligarchical government. If you want Democrats to do that fine, but the delineation here is not between ruthlessness and Pollyanna, it's between blatant violation of core constitutional responsibilities and a modicum of respect for them. Trump doesn't have the power to just not enforce the Tik Tok law, but he called the CEO and told him if he ran an ad for him he'd do that. It's plainly both unconstitutional and illegal, and that sort of quid pro quo in the WH is the kind of things that cause democracies to collapse in on themselves quickly. If we have to play by the same rules oh well, but we're trading a conservative oligarchy for a liberal one.
For a guy who shits on Mexico rhetorically so much he sure seems to want to cosplay as the PRI at their worst