Thank you Congressman. Anyone who says the Dems aren't doing anything isn't watching Stephen Cohen www.msn.com/en-us/news/i...
So the ? is now-is the Democratic party ready to expand the court yet-or still naw?
This is head-in-the-sand stuff. The whole South is about to be painted ruby red as Republicans institute Jim Crow 2.0. Get in the game, man.
Adding to @polphilpod.bsky.social's argument about the Reform Party as a fundamentally corrupt party: As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and I got into on @liberalcurrents.com pod, corruption is intrinsic to right wing populism's friend/enemy politics. We hit that here:
youtu.be/CB7JMSCE7r4?...
I asked Virginia State Senate leader Scott Surovell why Republicans always seem to find a way around such procedural obstacles whereas Dems are so often stymied by them.
The exchange got interesting:
newrepublic.com/article/2102...
It’s my birthday this weekend so I’m off today. But Ian said everything I could have said about this BULLSHIT decision out of Virginia.
www.vox.com
The court buried itself in dictionaries and missed the obvious.
"My primary concern with fascists is defeating their political project. I am unapologetic that I have more moral concern for their victims than I do for them."
Nice @polphilpod.bsky.social meditation on centrists' (unacknowledged) instinct to appease fascists
www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...
He should-so we can run a real Democrat in 2028 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
ProChoice Mike
Crucial point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: Dems must proceed as if there is *nothing* Republican judges won't do, no matter how corrupt and contrary to law, to assist in the right wing's illicit consolidation of power.
(Discusses my reporting on Virginia)
www.offmessage.net/p/a-terrible...
Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War.
Our exchange on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2102...
