everybody's just kinda hoping that SOMEBODY is willing to finally rock the boat and break open the seal on telling dem seniority/leadership to get fucked, and others in the party will follow, and... it's possible! it's just hard to see who it could be given current behaviors of members.

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this is one of the things where i think the dems after the 2010 wipeout are more instructive than tends to get attention. even after a brutal shellacking, all the people in charge - all in safe areas, thus keeping their seats - went 'actually we're STAYING in charge'. and the rest went along

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the radicalization of evelyn normielib has gotten a lot of talk about changing what's possible. and while this change is good, what it's unfortunately running into is that which they have little input on, like "dem house speaker", which depends on "are house dems willing to finally buck leadership"

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It also takes them eight paragraphs before they mention, almost as an aside, that even if the whole thing was true it wouldn’t be grounds to denaturalize her.

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Anyone attempting to dismiss and marginalize criticism (or, really, any art form) in the face of the illiteracy crisis is, fundamentally, the enemy.

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