If we want to have any chance to complete our nearly quixotic quest to win the 2028 election in the face of the authoritarian hurricane blowing in our faces, Democrats must nominate someone not moderate and *authentic*, warts and all. You and I may love strait-laced Whitmer, Buttigieg or Shapiro or the fire of an AOC, but those strategies will fail. We need someone willing to break liberal convention on occasion, who will take sides on internal liberal debates rather than Harris-like mealy mouthing everything, and is not a career politician.
If we want to have any chance to complete our nearly quixotic quest to win the 2028 election in the face of the authoritarian hurricane blowing in our faces, Democrats must nominate someone not moderate and *authentic*, warts and all. You and I may love strait-laced Whitmer, Buttigieg or Shapiro or the fire of an AOC, but those strategies will fail. We need someone willing to break liberal convention on occasion, who will take sides on internal liberal debates rather than Harris-like mealy mouthing everything, and is not a career politician.