Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social

“What we need is someone who can annihilate Trump in a debate!” Is everyone under the age of 8?

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Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

Do they not realize that Trump is not going to debate the replacement? He will claim they didn’t win the primary and are illegitimate. We will be furious, the right will laugh their asses off at us, and we will be able to do absolutely nothing. This is grade school gaming out of Trump.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:13 UTC

I wrote this in 2018, and a similar dynamic is going on today. The DNC is an organization that Black Democrats have gained a lot of representation in and strength over. And media calls for Democrats to just have a do-over are a way of de-legitimizing all of that. www.vox.com/mischiefs-of...

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havokle @havokle.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

Those debates were so fun! Trump would get eviscerated, drop in the polls a bit, then the go back to what they were before the debate.

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