This week, the Atlantic staff writer Elaine Godfrey was covering a campaign rally in Texas when she was ushered out. Elaine has been covering national politics for years, and has been turned away before—but, she says that has usually happened to her at Trump rallies. This time, she was turned away by a Democrat running in a Senate primary.
Representative Jasmine Crockett is known for her confrontational style, and it serves her well with her constituents, voters, and Democrats who are tired of playing nice when Republicans don’t. Last year, Godfrey profiled Crockett for The Atlantic, a story that Crockett tried to “shut down” when she found out her House colleagues were being interviewed. “Crockett is testing out the coarser, insult-comedy-style attacks that the GOP has embraced under Trump, the general idea being that when the Republicans go low, the Democrats should meet them there,” Godfrey wrote at the time. Is that where the rest of the party might be heading? We talked to Godfrey about her experience at the rally and the upcoming primary election in Texas.
Hopefully it’ll tell us that taking AIPAC money is a career-ender.
I was really disappointed when I found that out
“Crockett is testing out the coarser, insult-comedy-style attacks that the GOP has embraced under Trump, the general idea being that when the Republicans go low, the Democrats should meet them there,” Godfrey wrote at the time.
It might be our only option. If that’s what a majority of Americans respond to, I don’t see any other choice. Democrats have to win elections to accomplish anything. Taking the high ground and losing is meaningless. We can no longer be content with moral victories, the Democrats need to actually win elections. Some liberals and leftists get really irritated whenever I point that out, but it’s the truth, inconvenient though it may be.
That being said, it all depends on whether or not this is actually what a majority of Americans will respond to. 77 some million Americans responded to it when Trump did it, otherwise he wouldn’t have gotten reelected. But, that’s only about 32% of eligible voters. Nowhere near a majority. The vast majority, 68%, of eligible voters didn’t respond well enough to Trump’s behavior to vote for him. However, only about 31% of eligible voters responded well enough to what the Democrats presented to vote for them. That’s not good enough.
The Democrats may never be able to get 68% of eligible voters to vote for them, but it sure would be nice if they could get at least 51%. I mean, if the Democrats could get 51% of eligible voters to vote for them, the Republicans would not stand a chance (obviously).
Does anyone know what 51% of eligible American voters want in a candidate? Whenever I ask this question, I think people just tell me what THEY want in a candidate, apparently assuming that what they want must be what a majority of eligible voters want. I think it’s natural for people to assume that they are indicative of the majority, but it’s not necessarily true. Perhaps asking the American people would give us some needed insights.
But maybe 51% of Americans just can’t agree on a candidate, or a party or an ideology. Maybe we’re too fractured for any kind of majority political consensus to exist.
the majority of americans are living paycheck to paycheck, give them financial relief/save them time (force move to some 6hr/4day standard workweek) and you win any election.
this is why poors vote R…R’s say they’ll give financial relief while D’s promisise “economic stability” which doesn’t mean shit to the 50%+ of the country living paycheck to paycheck.
it doesn’t matter that R’s are lying through their teeth (and fucking them through a dozen sources of CoL increases)…one offers hope the other offers more of the same. when your on the bottom “more of the same” is still a boot on your neck, doesn’t matter what color it is.
We can no longer be content with moral victories
But that’s precisely all they’re talking about doing here:
coarser, insult-comedy-style attacks
How about some fucking action, Democrats? They think the whole issue is the facade of messaging and not the fact that they side with Republicans nine times out of ten while pretending they’re somehow different and deserve our vote because of that.
