This can be extended out to a broader point, I think.
It's hard to deny that we're in a populist era for politics, one that dems at the top are not leaning into sufficiently. Republicans are working with it by painting the weak and powerless as voters' enemies, punching down to get the electorate on board with them.
This can be extended out to a broader point, I think.
It's hard to deny that we're in a populist era for politics, one that dems at the top are not leaning into sufficiently. Republicans are working with it by painting the weak and powerless as voters' enemies, punching down to get the electorate on board with them.
We have a wide opening to punch up, to attack the rich and the powerful, and paint them as our foil. We should take it and use it.
This can be extended out to a broader point, I think.
It's hard to deny that we're in a populist era for politics, one that dems at the top are not leaning into sufficiently. Republicans are working with it by painting the weak and powerless as voters' enemies, punching down to get the electorate on board with them.
We have a wide opening to punch up, to attack the rich and the powerful, and paint them as our foil. We should take it and use it.