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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

This Is Correct

 This Tweet is correct on the issue of Covid relief. I don't know how to embed a tweet, so....

pass an incredibly popular covid relief package and then make every republican vote against it. run on it during the midterms. if you lose, you were gonna lose the house anyway. you got people relief. if you win, you win, and people got money and, you know, you won. twice.

The big relief package promoted by Democrats is A) good policy and B) good politics. Nobody really gives a shit about the deficit, it's just a cudgel Republicans have been using against Democrats doing popular things before the sneak into the White House and cut taxes on billionaires. Their complaints are bullshit and should be treated as such.

"When Americans were struggling, Senator So And So voted to keep America's schools' closed and against aid to struggling Americans. When a crisis came, Senator So and So was unequal to the moment. Elect This Guy instead."

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