the majority of people, I think, have extremely flexible memories. not necessarily Liz Holmes 'I was always this person' level but certainly enough to recast their own opinions and positions whatever the facts were

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I think the Occam’s razor is that less engaged/ideological folks tend to project where we and they are at now to back then, and if you think Trump and the Republicans are evil losers now you think “well I wouldn’t have voted for an evil loser”

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Literally anytime young Americans have been in the streets over political issues since *I* was young (decades ago), they've been told they're "protesting wrong," "immature," and attacked/arrested by riot police.

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yeah he's like... objectively wrong on freshmen level finance topics. you can start from there instead of debating the future potential of ai or complicated linear algebra that goes into how the models work

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With all my heart I hope Talarico wins, but this kind of thing has to stop; it is one of the reasons so many Democratic voters hate the Democratic party. And it's not a Talarico problem; it's a Democratic consultant-class problem.

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