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Politics didn’t die just because Trump was elected.   As the vote totals get closer and closer, it’s clear that his victory was a combination of people staying home and some very low information voters voting for Trump.  So, it’s essential that we do what Republicans would do in the same situation:  simple, straightforward messaging of unpopular stuff.  And there will be plenty:

One of the podcasts I was listening to recently mentioned that this is an extraordinary time in American political history, because we’re used to long periods of stability (like post-New Deal Democratic dominance).  That’s not the case now.  We’re going to have to message to low-information voters, and also try to understand the media they’re consuming, because they’ll be the margin of victory for the next few elections.

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Folks on Bluesky seem upset by this unsurprising development.

If someone in the comments would be kind enough to explain the allure of Morning Bro, I’d be interested, because I could never understand it.  First and foremost, it’s the way Joe treats Mika, who seems like an intelligent woman with obviously poor taste in men.  He is the biggest mansplaining, interrupting, preening dick on the planet.  How do you get past that?  I never could, and every time I was subject to the show (mainly in hotel lobbies or in the gym), I’d get as far away as possible from the screen and the noise.

Second, and realize that I barely have ever watched the show, but from what I saw in the few times that I was subjected to it was the most garden variety beltway gossip.  Very little new or interesting information was imparted.  As far as I could tell, the panel was generally a chorus of yes-men has-beens.

Anyway, the skeet that Anne Laurie posted from Jen Rubin below, where Rubin says she’s swearing off “dumb media”, specifically all cable TV, made me wonder why an intelligent person like Rubin would pay attention to what’s happening on cable in the year 2024.  Then I read this thread from Angry Black Lady, where she confesses that she would hold back criticizing MSNBC and CNN because she wanted to appear on them once in a while.  That explains a lot (and to be crystal clear, I’m not dunking on ABL — her honesty on this topic is refreshing.)

Well, if one good thing has come out of the Trump election, it’s that a former Republican Congressman who’s a dick to his wife a couple of hours every morning on cable will probably lose even more ratings.

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