People really don’t understand just how jokerified the Dem primary electorate has become. The emerging view is that after 8 years of “playing by the rules and going high”, it might be time to throw the rules out the window and do what the other side does.
Kicking this one around a bit, and the intention is to not make people mad by saying it:
I think one reason Cuomo is in the running to mount a successful comeback is that lots of Dem voters have seen the Reps pay little to no price for running overt rapists and sexual predators.
My concern is that we may soon see Democrats lose some of the candidate quality edges we have enjoyed, at least among new challengers, if we are not careful about it. But the elites have actually mostly resisted this phenomenon, so upstart candidates may still struggle a lot more without backing.
What ‘candidate quality edge’? Are you saying the Dems field higher quality candidates? I’d question that based on both election outcomes and by pointing to eg Jeffries, Fetterman, and Newsom as allegedly ‘high quality’ candidates who have all failed in their own unique ways. Nevermind Schumer etc.
Democrats consistently field higher quality candidates, yes.
May 14, 2025 00:23
