The exchange between El-Sayed and "Tommy" reinforced for me how much of this political moment centers on the tension between the idea of a pluralistic democracy where power is shared and the vision of a country centrally if not exclusively for white Christians. Gift link:

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I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Also stop fucking saying he wants single payer. 1) no he doesn’t 2) he doesn’t know what that is 3) he passed the largest public health cuts in US history and they hit in January

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Re: the disgusting Vivek ad — I think Republicans have been trained for generations to run disgusting, disspiriting negative campaigns because usually the way it worked is that lower turnout advantaged conservatives as a lot of core Dem groups were marginal voters.

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so many Rs have wanted an off ramp w this guy, it’s too easy

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