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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

Thursday, April 21, 2022

The Midterms Started Yesterday

 Josh Marshall makes a good point about how Democrats seem unwilling to engage with, for lack of a better word, storytelling. The GOP is hopelessly corrupt and married to autocrats around the world. That's a story. Republicans have been telling a story for years about how the Democratic Party is in the thrall of coastal elites, so that story is now simply understood to be true by a large swath of America.

Democrats need to hammer the story about the authoritarian, anti-woman, corrupt GOP every minute of every day from now until the midterms. They aren't, and that's political malpractice.

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