Saturday, November 12, 2022

The Problem...

...is identifying who "they" are.
Speaking to the Times on Thursday, [defeated incumbent Sean Patrick] Maloney brushed off the notion that redistricting hurt the party and suggested suburban voters in the state, like those in the district he narrowly lost in the Hudson Valley, are turning against the party due to Republicans' messaging on crime rates and are rejecting progressive policy proposals.

"You have these suburban voters who are experiencing those messages coming out of New York City outlets, which were heavily focused on crime," Maloney told the Times. "There are other voices who should be heard, especially when suburban voters have clearly rejected the ideas that [Ocasio-Cortez]'s most associated with, from defunding the police on down."

The congressman also accused Ocasio-Cortez of offering little help to her fellow candidates while claiming that funding she did offer wasn't wanted by other Democrats:

I didn't see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority... She had almost nothing to do with what turned out to be an historic defense of our majority. Didn't pay a dollar of dues. Didn't do anything for our frontline candidates except give them money when they didn't want it from her...
She's an important voice in our politics. But when it comes to passing our agenda through the Congress, or standing our ground on the political battlefield, she was nowhere to be found.
Which tent should we be inside, pissing out of?  And who should be standing with us?  And how should it be reported? I mean... And the media prefers to report on the "horse race" rather than on policy, because everybody knows if it bleeds (or argues) it leads, and policy is MEGO. Besides, they're pretty clearly addicted to Trump (for those very reasons. He's the personification of a public figure who only cares about the horse race and doesn't "do" policy): They just can't quit him: And the real truth is: Nobody knows what just happened (true after every election), but they desperately want to be the ones writing the narrative explaining it. Blind men describing the elephant, which they will never see, and reaching a consensus that the "kewl kids" are closest to the correct description. And even when the voters tell them that's not what the voters meant/wanted, they still decide it is. Blessed be the name of the narrative. It certainly didn't help. Now, do 1500 words on why that's the dominant reason for election results last Tuesday! I don’t generally think Michael Cohen is worth listening to, but he’s not wrong here. Trump has lost all his free publicity outlets. Why should he get any publicity now? I think we can safely abandon Trump and his base by now.
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