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Harrison's avatar

Not planning ahead is what led Perriello to get hours away from jumping into the 2013 Gubernatorial race, backing out last minute, and then four years later jumping in to the 2017 race at the last minute with no prep work over the years ahead. He lost a winnable primary because Northam had totally locked up the entire party establishment and Perriello was trying to play catchup. Planning is good!

I sympathize with the experience of answering the phones during the Tea Party, but there actually aren't good lessons to learn from the experience. Members try very hard to be responsive to constituent calls up to a point. But more psychological trauma for Democratic staffers isn't the solution right now.

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Liam Kerr's avatar

Well said.

Planning is good!!

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Ben's avatar

I now know how the anti-Trump GOP feels. All the normie Dems I know are completely confused by the behavior of the left. We were never fans but thought we worked from the same playbook. And now listening to them we can't believe who we are yoked to and we are looking back at all sorts of Biden era policies that we sort of looked past even though we knew they were both useless and damaging.

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Michael D. Purzycki's avatar

I can't help thinking some progressive serial fundraisers secretly want the Democrats to fail. Partly for reasons of ideological purity, partly because their status and well-being depend on them frightening people - and what better fright than the Republicans being in power?

On the bright side, they're not as bad as left-wing activists who want the Democrats to fail. They go even further: they want America to fail because they see it as inherently racist, rapacious, imperialistic, what have you. They want the right to be in power so America comes tumbling down and they can say "good riddance."

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