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@Chicory @tzimmer_history instead, Mason & Zimmer trotted out the low hanging fruit of tired “lesser-evil” arguments without really engaging with the strategic and tactical calculations of “uncommitted” voters, especially at such a critical time. If they were going to address this, I’d hope they’d bring the same rigor they often do, but this wasn’t it (there’s also no treatment of increased police funding, breaking a railroad strike, etc.)
@Chicory @tzimmer_history Mason’s comment at the end about it just being about “selling” Biden the candidate or that uncommitted voters would “consider … Trump as successful” is actually a complete misread of the uncommitted voters and general criticism from the left of the leadership of the Democratic Party, both in terms of the sentiment and in terms of the broad strategy and specific tactic in the primary vote casting
@Chicory @tzimmer_history finally, it reverses the power relationship. The leadership of the Democratic Party has far more power than some voter appalled at our government materially supporting genocide, yet the podcast offered no critique of the Dems’ broad strategy of catering to imaginary “centrists” and abandoning their activist base, which has proven to have electoral implications no matter how naive you want to believe individual voters are