QOTD -- "Stop Being Nice And Polite"

 

"... There is no ideology remaining in American politics. The center-right party is now the pro-Putin, sweetheart deals for child sex predators, nationalize key industries and flood American cities with the US military party. Republicans think they can turn a mayor of New York who wants the city to try opening five grocery stores into a poster child for socialism. Those are the Republicans who are now for government takeover of key industries like Intel. Democrats should attack, attack, attack, not defend. You really think this will stop with Intel? Are you insane? The bell will soon toll for Apple, Meta, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, and Boeing. Taking Intel is why the first hit of crack is free.

"And my last plea to Democrats: stop being nice and polite. Anybody who votes to confirm the town drunk as secretary of defense is not a patriot. Say it. Senator John Thune, you have betrayed your country. You are not a patriot. JD Vance is married to a woman who is a US citizen, as a result of the 14th Amendment, which Vance opposes. Who attacks the legitimacy of his own family? Call it out. What’s wrong with this guy? It’s not that RFK Jr. was a long-time heroin junkie. The problem is that he has said heroin worked for him, and he’d still be using it if it still worked. He’s a broken, deeply disturbed man who deserves pity but no respect. He’s a nut. Call Tulsi Gabbard a functioning agent of the Russian Federation. Don’t weasel-word your way to invisibility.

"Republicans think they can force the Democrats to play by different rules, that they can shame Democrats into refusing to go where they go every hour. Prove them wrong..." -- former Republican consultant Stuart Stevens, in Zeteo, with "My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear." Stevens talks about how too many Democrats think politics works, but doesn't; what Democrats should do to get back in power; and what they should do once they get in.  (We would go further than Stevens in his prescriptions for if/ when Democrats get back into power -- we need a serious denazification effort similar to that conducted in Europe after WWII.)  The advice offered above is very much what we see some Democratic governors doing (Newsom, Pritzker, Moore, etc.) and what the old school leadership in the House and Senate are most definitely not doing enough.  (As an aside, it's also the hard punching we see former Republicans -- like Stevens, Nicolle Wallace, George Conway, Rick Wilson, etc. -- doing daily, oftentimes more effectively than some of those consultant- driven Democrats. Kudos.)