"We will continue to go through this, along with every demographic within the party believing that 'the Democrats wouldn't have won without us'. "
Yes, yes, indeed. In my internet wanderings this morning, I read a piece that made exactly that argument. https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-the-democrats-won-and-lost-the-2022-midterms
Consider the source, etc, but I'm amused by how I could have wrote the thing for him -- you see, the Democrats weren't progressive enough. They ran those pro-police ads, and they failed to go all in on Mandela Barnes. It's so predictable.
Meanwhile, the other side's doing it too. I also read a piece in a Claremont Institute website (shudder) that argued that the Republicans didn't do as well as expected because the populist conservatives were betrayed and undermined by the Republican establishment, which doesn't really want to win if they can't control and neuter the populists.
"We will continue to go through this, along with every demographic within the party believing that 'the Democrats wouldn't have won without us'. "
Yes, yes, indeed. In my internet wanderings this morning, I read a piece that made exactly that argument. https://inthesetimes.com/article/how-the-democrats-won-and-lost-the-2022-midterms
Consider the source, etc, but I'm amused by how I could have wrote the thing for him -- you see, the Democrats weren't progressive enough. They ran those pro-police ads, and they failed to go all in on Mandela Barnes. It's so predictable.
Meanwhile, the other side's doing it too. I also read a piece in a Claremont Institute website (shudder) that argued that the Republicans didn't do as well as expected because the populist conservatives were betrayed and undermined by the Republican establishment, which doesn't really want to win if they can't control and neuter the populists.
It is always someone else's fault that you did not win or did not win bigger and it is all due to you when they do win or win bigger.
It's amazing how that happens.