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KDoubleC's avatar

Sarah, I love you! However, please stop having guys like Drucker (and Kraushaar) on the show.

They aren't giving good faith, neutral analysis. They are pushing an agenda (and working through some personal issues in public) that is both a lie and dangerous. They want to claim that anyone who isn't Trump is normal. Drucker's continued invocation of suburban and swing voters who want someone who isn't outside the norm. DeSanctimonious is not normal. Punishing Disney for boys kissing is not normal. Going to NatCon conferences and espousing christian nationalist rhetoric is not normal. Additionally, he brought up that swing/suburban voters didn't change their views on fiscal and foreign policies when they voted for Biden. Ok, but what is Ron's stance on Ukraine? What about defunding Obamacare? Does he want to sunset So. Sec?

These guys are hacks pretending to be serious people. Obviously all humans who cover politics have their own biases and desires for candidates, but people like Weigel and Walters try their absolute best to detach themselves and not let the narrative they want take over their analysis.

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AustereRoberto's avatar

💯, DeSantis is another minoritarian authoritarian and there's a subset of "independent thinkers" carrying his water.

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Cindy's avatar

Minoritarian authoritarian is simply brilliant.

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KDoubleC's avatar

This idea that people like Drucker whose explanation for DeSantis is “he fights!TM” for why the base likes him - but who do so without explaining that the “fight!” isn’t ever on serious matters of policy, but simply bigoted resentments towards other Americans they don’t know and don’t like - is a signal he is either a moron or an extremist.

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AustereRoberto's avatar

I'm leaning towards moron myself. How can you spend 80% of a podcast and hand-wave away Kemp/Sununu (Kemp faced an opponent being bolstered by A-List celebs and the best GOTV Commissariat in the nation) w/ "primary voters don't consider wins and losses?" He came on to fluff DeSantis.

I'd at least like an explicit mea culpa from these guys before they get readmitted to polite society. Doesn't have to be self flagellation but it does need to be sincere.

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