Thursday, November 12, 2026

Hercules And The Stables

INCOMING:
Jain: After the 2024 election, a lot of donors told me I think we have got to nominate a white straight male as the next Democratic nominee because we cannot afford what happened to Kamala Harris.

I said if you are focused on that, you're definitely going to lose. There is not really any evidence anywhere in all of the analysis we have done in any cycle to suggest that minorities are less electable or women are less electable.

Women did better than men in battlegrounds. Anytime you hear of a sex scandal, it’s very rarely a woman politician in trouble.

Crowd Member: Boebert

Jain: So yes, Boebert, and she lost. Point proven.
Talarico: On election night, as I was delivering my victory speech, I noticed a woman up front. The lights were bright, so I couldn’t see her face, but I was struck by her attention, how closely she was listening, how much this moment meant to her.

As I finished speaking, I looked down again, and she had made her way to the front of the stage. I bent down to shake her hand, and I realized who she was.

She looked me in the eyes, and she said, “I’m so glad you have my father’s job.”

Lucy Baines Johnson was there to see another public school teacher take her dad’s Senate seat.
Talarico: The American people cannot wait two years for change, so we must work with President Trump. If President Trump wants the same plaques and portraits as LBJ, we can help make that a reality. We should make the final two years of his presidency the most productive of any American presidency
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Abdul El-Sayed absolutely destroys Donald Trump.

Q: You recently called President Trump the dumbest effing guy who ever was president.

AES: True.

Q: You've also said Democrats should drop the decorum and treat the president as the unserious fool that he is.

AES: True.

Q: Why are you taking that approach?

AES: Because he's a bully alongside being a narcissist. And the only way you deal with bullies is to stand up to them. Bullies don't bully you because they necessarily care for the thing you have. They bully you because they like to bully you because it makes them feel strong. And the way you take on a bully is to bully back. Because then they learn that this does not make them feel strong. It makes them feel weak and they don't like to feel weak. So they back off. And the more you let a bully get away with bullying, the more they signal to everybody else that this person cannot be stood up to. And so I think it's important for us to stand up to him.
El Sayed also recently publicly told Trump that he would name Medicare For All “Trumpcare” if that’s what he needed. El Sayed is not wrong in the interview, and he’s not wrong there 👆. But neither is he a rigid absolutist. The attitude of the incoming Democrats seems to be: “Whatever it takes.”

And that doesn’t mean “Whatever it takes for the Republicans to like us.” There aren’t any Clinton Democrats here.
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2 comments:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa9:28 PM

    "aren't any Clinton Democrats here"

    It's just a completely different moment with an electorate that's a lot different from the one that elected Bill Clinton- and two years later turned everything over to Newt Gingrich.

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  2. Rmj10:50 PM

    Clinton introduced “third way” Democrats, and, yes, it was a different time. I don’t see another Gingrich showing up in 2030 (although that’s 4 years away), or another Clinton coming out of nowhere in 2028.

    I’m reading too much chatter about who should be Speaker/Majority Leader. I’m more convinced leaders follow the group (and just stay in front of them), rather than bridle them and lead the House/Senate where they will. OTOH, we’re not getting Medicare for All with Clintonesque efforts; or another Sen. Lieberman.

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