“This trend was all very tiresome and terrible, but, for awhile, political useful to one side.”
And which side is that? Don’t mean to be harsh, but on this topic there is too much extrapolation from experiences in blue spaces to the country at large. That trend was useful in winning fights between liberals and whatever you want the call the annoying people who claim to be to their left re the internal culture of the Athletic or the policies of a Bay Area school district. But otherwise…
I think people have become desensitized to how weak a candidate Trump is, and how unpopular Republican policies are. You really have to work hard to be less popular than them.
The desensitization of Trump and GOP policies is something I'm interested in tracking over the next year. If things get really ugly economically (and for the record I hope not as that's good for no one) I'm interested if people will vote the other way when mid-terms come around. My theory is no matter how bad it gets, GOP minded folks won't vote against their own as culture wars will continue to be at the forefront of their minds.
Peoples memories are short. I have already talked to a fair share of people who were happy Trump won in November who aren't happy now. His ratings are backsliding for real now too. It's still early, but Trump is not exactly popular among most people.
It's an interesting point you make. But, its almost like you are saying that the Democrats would have been better off doing nothing for four years under Biden, and they would have had a better chance of winning last November than what happened.
Yet, if that were the case, Biden would have stayed at the top of the ticket. So, who the heck knows?!
Dems have a messaging problem. They also chase after goals that aren’t achievable but end up being the big thing they tout the most. For example Biden’s loan forgiveness. This was never going to be achieved with a vocal GOP and a majority right wing SC. So while they did good things their major goal wasn’t achieved so it looks like they failed. They have to do a better job of trumpeting their accomplishments. The most I hear them on smaller things is when they’re trying to out GOP congressional members for touting policies they voted against.
RE: Sports people becoming political on twitter: I think it was more just existing biases coming up to the top rather than the medium changing. It's hard to write about the same thing for years straight (trust me, I know) and contemporary politics is an easy escape hatch.
“This trend was all very tiresome and terrible, but, for awhile, political useful to one side.”
And which side is that? Don’t mean to be harsh, but on this topic there is too much extrapolation from experiences in blue spaces to the country at large. That trend was useful in winning fights between liberals and whatever you want the call the annoying people who claim to be to their left re the internal culture of the Athletic or the policies of a Bay Area school district. But otherwise…
I think people have become desensitized to how weak a candidate Trump is, and how unpopular Republican policies are. You really have to work hard to be less popular than them.
The desensitization of Trump and GOP policies is something I'm interested in tracking over the next year. If things get really ugly economically (and for the record I hope not as that's good for no one) I'm interested if people will vote the other way when mid-terms come around. My theory is no matter how bad it gets, GOP minded folks won't vote against their own as culture wars will continue to be at the forefront of their minds.
Peoples memories are short. I have already talked to a fair share of people who were happy Trump won in November who aren't happy now. His ratings are backsliding for real now too. It's still early, but Trump is not exactly popular among most people.
It's an interesting point you make. But, its almost like you are saying that the Democrats would have been better off doing nothing for four years under Biden, and they would have had a better chance of winning last November than what happened.
Yet, if that were the case, Biden would have stayed at the top of the ticket. So, who the heck knows?!
Dems have a messaging problem. They also chase after goals that aren’t achievable but end up being the big thing they tout the most. For example Biden’s loan forgiveness. This was never going to be achieved with a vocal GOP and a majority right wing SC. So while they did good things their major goal wasn’t achieved so it looks like they failed. They have to do a better job of trumpeting their accomplishments. The most I hear them on smaller things is when they’re trying to out GOP congressional members for touting policies they voted against.
RE: Sports people becoming political on twitter: I think it was more just existing biases coming up to the top rather than the medium changing. It's hard to write about the same thing for years straight (trust me, I know) and contemporary politics is an easy escape hatch.
Do you have any examples for us? Since you are asking us to to trust you? I'm not meaning to be snarky, I am genuinely curious.