This is as concise a riposte as I’ve seen:
I’m a little saltier about this: I think abolishing the Electoral College is ample grounds for dissolving the Republic.
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Category Archives: Conservatism
The New Political Geography
Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend.
You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead.
Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless:
Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left has been working for decades to gain control of the language and its perception. The systematic turning of all “right wing’ thought into some neo-fascist aberration shifted into high gear in 2009, when Obama’s Homeland Security czaritsa Janet Napolitano told the nation’s law enforcement “don’t mind all those leftist terrorists, watch out for all that right wing terror which is going to come out of nowhere someday, pinky swear!”.
Just watch – in a month, NPR and the NYTimes will furrow their brows and wonder why society has had a “Big Sort”…
The good news: these sorts of results usually bode well for elections in America, at least for the upcoming cycle.
About That Henco District 6 Special Election
Heather “Lawnmower Barbie” Edelson, beat Marisa Simonetti, 54-45.
In other words: A woman with near 100% name recognition, especially among people who come out for special elections, beat someone nobody had heard of three weeks before the election.
By nine points.
In a district Keith Ellison won by 20, and Governor Klink by 30:
There’ll be another round in November.
While the district is a little less “blue” than most of Hennepin County, this can’t be great news for the DFL headed into the fall
Your Mission For Today
If you live in District Six in Hennepin County – this area here…:
…you need to get out and vote Marisa Simonetti for Hennepin County Commission in the special election being held today.
She’s an unknown conservative who ran in the runoff three weeks ago, spent about $700, and got 33% of the vote with no name recognition, running against Mary Moriarty’s spouse and at least one candidate who spent $70K to try to build name recognition, in a runoff. That took her to the final round, today:
Her opponent is Heather Edelson – a sitting Legislator whose sole “accomplishment” was writing a bill that would have banned gas powered lawn mowers in the state. “Lawncare Barbie” has name recognition – and literally nothing else.
Simonetti’s a dark horse – but given the tiny turnout in these special elections for county races, anything is possible.
So:
- If you live in the area in the map above – basically all of Henco south of 394 and west of 169 – get to the polls. Bring your family. Extort your kids. Whatever it takes.
- If you don’t live in this district, make sure any family you do have in the area turn out and vote for Simonetti.
This would really shock the world.
So let’s do it
You Asked For Another Reason To Bash Hollywood…
…and Hollywood obliges.
They’re apparently using North Korean animators.
“Speaking To A Rally With 30,000 People About Hayek”
I always liked the idea of Argentina’s libertarian-conservative President, Javier Milei.
But after seeing this interview, I am actively wondering a bunch of things:
Does the US need to bottom out, as Argentina’s been doing for most of my life – before being ready to, as he says, “put on our long pants?” and embrace the freedom that used to be this nation’s reason to exist?
And where can we get one of him to run for governor in 2026?
Feeling So 1938
History doesn’t repeat – but it rhymes.
The world’s major powers are rattling their sabers as they spar in secondary theaters.
The economies are in the hands of people who love to tinker with the levers and buttons of the Big State.
And young intellectually over-stimulated but underendowed bobbleheads are romping and playing:
Everything old is new again.
Poorer Minnesota
Minnesota used to significantly outperform the rest of the US in germs of gross and per capita GDP growth.
[Since] 2019 — the last pre-COVID year — Minnesota’s real GDP growth has ranked 36th out of the fifty states, coming in at 4.0%, less than half the national rate of 8.1%.
The gross GDP growth comparison is bad. The per capita numbers, even worse:
Minnesota’s recent performance is relatively poor. As Figure 2 shows, between 2019 and 2023, Minnesota’s real, per capita GDP growth ranked 39th out of the fifty states. Again, with growth of 3.1%, Minnesota’s real, per capita GDP growth was less than half that of the United States, 6.6%.
The Walz regime will respond, no doubt, as it always does; with a selfie of “Lieutenant” Governor Flanagan feeding Governor Klink a pronto pup.
Capital, productive citizens and the college kids who are the productive citizens of the future are fleeing. Businesses have been moving their non-white-collar operations out of MInnesota for decades.
Reality Always Wins
You may not win along with it, but that’s your fault for denying reality.
Speaking of denying reality: we warned MInneapolis about the inevitable end results of rent control, high taxes and onerous regulations (aka “everything the Met Council does re housing and transit policy”).
And yet every $%#$%$@# time their chickens come home to roost, they act surprised and angry:
The comments in that thread are lit, by the way; every metro housing advocate’s inner Lenin is showing.
Theory
A significant chunk of the far-left clacque that runs politics in the metro are Marxists, either overtly or under the hood.
And an amazing number of them subscribe to the “Labor Theory of Value” – the idea that labor, as opposed to the other three factors (Capitol, Management and Land) is the dispositive factor of production.
I have been challenging adherents for years – test the theory by taking a group of fast food workers, plopping them on a vacant lot, and seeing if a Hardee’s springs up around them.
It’s an absurd test – exactly the one the theory deserves.
I used to say nobody had taken the challenge.
But it appears that, at least indirectly, someone just might.
A Cold Detroit
Hennepin County’s population – which is mostly Minneapolis – is down. And while that is not the only factor depressing home values for the first time since the 2008 recession.
This is affecting the funding of (what we will still refer to as) public services in Minnesota’s largest county and city.
In fact, the demographics of Minnesota as a whole are a little troublesome.
The annual “natural change” in Minnesota’s population (births minus deaths) is not enough to compensate for the number of people moving out of the state. In the little over three years from the last census (April 1, 2020) to July 1, 2023, Minnesota saw a natural increase in residents of about 40,400. These gains were wiped out by the net domestic outmigration (people leaving Minnesota for other states) of 46,000. If not for the net “international migration” of 34,600, Minnesota’s overall population would have fallen over this period.
Young people are leaving the state – which is a huge change from when I first moved here, when the Twin Cities were a destination to a lot of recent grads stepping out into adult live.
But hey, maybe protecting criminals while jamming people into ticky-tack multi unit boxes will fix the problem:
That’s the problem with progressive politics. Reality always wins.
Where’s The Money?
The Minneapolis City Council’s vote on minimum wages for independent contractor drivers has driven Lyft out of Minneapolis, and Uber out of both cities.
A friend of the blog emails with an initial reaction very close to my own:
The Minneapolis City Council doesn’t actually understand a lot. They want affordable options, but they want people to be paid high wages. It doesn’t always work that way.http://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-uber-lyft-ridehailing-minimum-wage-d60db6a2e2580dc1d93c438a8cffa5ee
That being said, Uber and Lyft were never affordable here in the Twin Cities like they are elsewhere. That is likely because the market here doesn’t support it like it might in cities with higher density populations.
This article mentions that “Seattle and New York City have passed similar policies in recent years that increase wages for ride-hailing drivers, and Uber and Lyft still operate in those cities.”
Yes, well, the cost to use those services was lower to start with because they actually could make money there. So, they are likely still making money even if passengers are paying more to ride. I would bet those services were barely making it here as it was. It’s not hard to drive most places, it’s not even particularly expensive. The downtowns of MSP are mostly dead anyway, so who is using Lyft and Uber at this stage anymore? As far as I can tell, the council’s stupid ordinance just gave them the excuse to pull out.
That was pretty much what I thought; it was yet another case of a prog city council demanding the world violate the laws of economics to give them what they want.
But wait. There’s more.
It’s the current DFL – so one must always check to see if there’s an ulterior motive involving transferring wealth from taxpayers to the DFL’s non-profit/government complex.
And of course there is:
There you go – Soviet-style ride sharing.
Because the DSA needs to make sure they get a cut of all that ride-share money.
Agenda
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Notice the list of priorities does NOT include: “Build The Wall and Make Mexico Pay For It.”
Nor does it include: “StopPissing Away Money in Ukraine.” “Lock Up Criminals” is mostly a local issue but then, so is abortion (now that Roe v. Wade is gone). And I don’t know one single person who favors canceling student loan debt, not even the people making payments on their student loans, who routinely tell me, “I paid my loans, they can pay their loans.”
Comparing this list of priorities to mine, I have to ask: how far out of touch with reality am I?
Who, indeed, is out of touch?
More on that next week.
Gala
By the way – the Legislative Evaluation Assembly’s annual gala is coming up – and the deadline for tickets is Monday!
My former network-mate Steve Deace is the keynote speaker – and he’ll be talking about a subject not just near and dear, but dispositive to this blog’s heart, the evolution in Conservative media.
Ask And Be Answered
Last week, I asked “why all the hate for National Review?”
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, responded:
I had a subscription to National Review for decades. I let it lapse when I realized O’Sullivan’s Law applied to his own magazine. The writers I admired – who stated my views better than I could – were no longer welcome there.
Samuel Francis. John Derbyshire. Mark Steyn. Conrad Black. Theodore Dalrymple. Victor Davis Hanson. Some of their names still appear on the website but they haven’t had an article published in years. The views of the magazine have shifted. Look at the articles in the last few issues, the most conservative guy is . . . James Lileks. I love his writing but he’s not the successor to William F. that I would have chosen to write insightful political commentary. I didn’t leave the magazine, the magazine left me but it’s worse than that.
“National Review is now run by a nest of never-Trumpers,” said Francis Sempa in 2021, and his comment is still on-point today. The man who is far and away the most popular candidate for the Republican nomination for President isn’t classy enough for National Review. He’s a boor. He doesn’t lose gracefully. And those tweets! He’d never get invited to one of National Review’s cruises.
Neither will I. My views are too extreme, too conservative. Like their former columnists and the former President, and the 80 million people who voted for Trump last time and the 120 million who will vote for him this time, I’m not good enough enough for National Review. Which puts me in mind of Grocho Marx: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
Joe Doakes, former National Review subscriber, no longer in Como Park
Well, I do subscribe to the National Review. Some of my favorites are gone – Derb, Kevin WIlliamson – and others like Charles CW Cooke and Andrew McCarthy remain.
“Never Trump?” Some are. Some are, like me, Trump skeptics, or from the “what have you done lately?” crowd. Not sure if Trump isn’t classy enough for the NR, but I’ve never gelled with his personality, even back when he was a Democrat.
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. I did in 2020, although his behavior between the election and Biden’s coronation was almost as stupid as, well, the system he fought. I’ll be in Team Ron ’til the bitter end, but I won’t be voting, directly or indirectly, for a fourth Obama term. Make of that what you will.
But the Trump era is going to end – next summer, next November, or perhaps in January of 2029. And I want the GOP that picks up at the end of all that to be more like the GOP of 1994 than the Matt Gaetz clown car of 2023.
And the National Review, whatever else you say about them, is about the same thing.
I hear what Joe’s saying. I understand it. I even agree to a point. I’m also a conservative before I”m a Republican. There will be a post-Trump era, sooner or later. I’d like whatever replaces Trump to reflect beliefs I can get behind. Love Trump, hate him, or fall somewhere in the middle,
The Conversation We Need
I’m going to commend you to this particular episode of Ben Shapiro, from a couple weeks ago.
He’s talking about the Republican Candidate debates – comparing the debates Republicans deserve with the one the nation needs.
The one we deserve? Well, the donnybrook between DeSantis and Newsome was a great one. In another time and place, it might have been a classic, like Reagan/Mondale.
But it was just another chapter in this nation’s formerly biennial and now permanent ritual of the tribes ceremonially throwing rhetorical (for now) bricks at each other, immune to any reason the other side may be throwing back.
The debate we need, on the other hand?
It’s a bit of a cartoon – whenever you suggest that maybe it’s time to discuss, even think about, how this nation approaches the subject of perhaps having a “National Divorce”, leftists immediately chant “That was settled in 1865!”.
The only response to that that matters is “Well, no – it was settled in 1776”.
We’ll come back to them.
From the center right, the response is probably more rational, and definitely more frustrating: “we have to preserve the union”.
Why?
If the union’s moral and political compass decays to the point where “the union” has completely trampled on the Constitution, the RIghts of Man and the whole notion of Government being a free association of equals, what is the point?
Put another way – what is more important: The nation’s founding principles, or its political union.
I’ll take founding principles, and ditch the parts of the country that disagree, every time.
There are those on all sides who shy away from the topic, saying any national breakup will inevitably look more like Bosnia or Kosovo or Belfast than some Trulbert-like organic readjustment.
Again – why? If one had asked a typical political thinker in Europe in 1770 what would happen if a people threw off the monarchy and established a constitutional Republic, what do you suppose they’d have predicted?
Chaos. At best.
And given the moral and intellectual midgets who set the standards for our culture, the idea of the “peaceful divorce” just might be harder than it needs to be.
But as Dennis Prager correctly notes, America was less divided in 1861 than it is today. I believe a renewed commitment to federalism is the only hope to maintain a nation.
And a renewed commitment to federalism would require a huge bounce-back resurgence in Federalists in politics. We’re out there – but we’re nowhere near power, even in the GOP.
So our culture is rolling the dice. And the best way to assure that any future, uh, “civic readjustment” is absolutely a bloody debacle is to shame the conversation into the shadows, were only the crazies and the extremists will own, and consider, and be ready, for the split when and if it finally happens.
Don’t Cry For Milei, Argentina
As Don Surber notes, suddenly everyone’s an expert on Argentina.
We’ll come back to that.
Libertarian-Conservative Javier Milei crushed his center-left opponent, showing Argentina’s crushing dissatisfaction with over a decade of center-to-far-left politics.
Big Left is, predictably, unhappy:
“A radical libertarian and admirer of Donald Trump rode a wave of voter rage to win Argentina’s presidency on Sunday, crushing the political establishment and bringing the sharpest turn to the right in four decades of democracy in the country.
“Javier Milei, a 53-year-old far-right economist and former television pundit with no governing experience, claimed nearly 56% of the vote in a stunning upset over Sergio Massa, the center-left economy minister who has struggled to resolve the country’s worst economic crisis in two decades. Even before the official results had been announced Sunday night, Massa acknowledged defeat and congratulated Milei on his win.
“Trump also congratulated Milei. ‘I am very proud of you,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. ‘You will turn your Country around and Make Argentina Great Again!’”
Don Surber’s response – “don’t anoint him yet, but the vote matters more than the candidate – isn’t wrong at all.
But he adds:
I don’t recall Argentina being great before but diplomacy requires a certain suspension of reality. It’s the 1970s chant of I’m OK, You’re OK updated for international relations. I’m Great Again, You’re Great Again.
Thing is, Argentina was, if not “great”, at least doing really, really well not that terribly long ago:
So what happened?
As Paul Johnson pointed out in Modern Times, socialism – in this case, populist socialism in the form of Juan and Eva Peron – happened. Argentina went from relative wealth to decay and authoritarianism, and all it got was a lousy musical.
Huh – a great political entity that got sucked into a vortex of authoritarianism, stagnancy and decay by leftists who just kept winning elections?
Huh. Weird.
Clarity
Since I have the place to myself for the moment, I figured it’d be time to do a little intellectual spring cleaning. Call it “20-odd Theses”, if you want.
I don’t care what you put on your pizza. Pineapple? Shrimip? Kale? Put whatever you want on your pizza. And I’ll do the same. Keep your nose outta my food. I’ll do the same for you.
Same goes for hot dogs.
If you’re not a lawyer, the “Oxford Comma” is an affectation.
I, and to the extent it matters, this blog, stand for a few things I think are worth upsetting the apple cart for, above and beyond the above:
I support free speech. Not just the gauzy, “Question Authority” bumper sticker type that disappeared from every Subaru in Marcy-Holmes when Barack Obama was elected. The real thing – Communists standing on soapboxes, Nazis (pardon the redundancy) marching parades, Klansmen jabbering away freely – and all the good people confronting, refuting, and best of all mocking and taunting them back to the stone age. Because defending speech you agree with wouldn’t need a Constitutional amendment.
Human freedom and dignity, and the inalienable, unabridgable right to defend it.
The whole panoply of small-“l”l liberalsm (aka movement libertarian conservative) thought. You say it’s obsolete? Then so is my Christian faith. I’m not burying either of them for the sake of false polity, much less temporal swings in public mood.
Moral order. All humans are equal before just laws and God alone. Beneath that, it’s all about talent and merit.
The injunction to be kind to “love one another as God loves you” and to be charitable to oen’s fellow human is not a contradiction to the above.
Exploiting and swindling that sense of charity is a moral crime carried out by moral algae.
Christian Humanism, fundamentalist chanting points aside, is not a contradiction. Western civilization sprang from Judeo-Christian Humanism – applying the principles of both faiths to civil society. Not “theocracy” – but a society guided by generally-accepted principles drawn from that faith.
Truth is a virtue. Supporting truth is a calling. Upholding truth over lies is a mandate. Good and evil both exist, and being incisive, critical and honest about the differences is Right and Good vs, Wrong and Evil. Being honest about the differences is a colossal burden and supreme good.
On the subject of good and evil, truth versus lies? It’s a fact:
- That the Holocaust happened. It wasn’t fictional, it wasn’t exaggerated.
- That as a result Jews get angsty about talk about systematic extermination. Those who are irate about “demographic replacement” but don’t recognize that Jews have been dealing with it on a kinetic rather than sociological level for centuries – and never moreso than this past 100 years – – are beyond me. Not that I won’t try.
- That Palestinians may have legitimate grievances with Israel.
- That their response – along with, and maybe at the behest of, the rest of the Arab world – in 1948, tearing up the original “two state solution” and launching a war of extermination against a people who were a little salty about the whole “exterminating Jews” thing, may have made those claims a lot less sympathetic
- That litigating these grievances by invading Israel and slaughtering innocent civilians, including children, on top of decades of doing the same, isn’t a legitimate way to resolve grievances, ever
- That the grievances of the Palestinian people are in fact nothing but a stage prop in this current crisis – the massacre was launched not to affect Israeli-Palestinian policy, but to try to derail the Israeli-Saudi peace negotiations, at the behest of Iran.
- That every single Palestinian civilian killed is the fault of Hamas – who on the one hand try to pass themselves off as a “military”, and then violate the rules of war by using civilians as human shields, which is an actual war crime.
- Hamas is in fact the very definition of “fascist” in every meaningful way; an authoritarian statist regime that co-opts society’s institutions toward its end, and
If you don’t believe all the above? I’m not going to say “unfriend me, go away, leave me alone”. I will in fact say “stick around, because I’m going to engage the sh*t out of you”. But it’s gonna be sporty.
Multiculturalism In Action
Scene from a “mostly peaceful demonstration” in Dacca, Bangladesh on Veterans Day:
Nah. It’s New York.
I’ll work 60 hours a week for the Presidential and Congressional candidates who will build a wall, deport any miscreants with anything less than or including a Green Card, and make naturalization 100% contingent on loyalty to American small-l lliberal principles. .
Because ss Bari Weiss points.out, this isn’t just antisemitism:
When a nation built on small-l liberalism turns its back on small-l liberalism – especially that nation’s “elites” – what does that leave the nation?
All Talk
Back when I was working in bars, I was working at this toilet bar in North Saint Paul. It was a boring Friday night in the middle of summer. Once of the bouncers left early, leaving the bar with one bouncer – a big guy with a curly perm that was trying to get into professional wrestling.
The other bouncer apparently went out to the parking lot and hoovered up a line of bad Bolivian Marching Powder, maybe spiked with PCP – because he came back into the bar, started bellowing at the room, and then throwing punches. He smacked the bartender, cutting his lip and knocking out a tooth or two. He also tangled with a couple of customers. throwing tables and chairs and bottles all over the place.
The rampage went on for a while. Five minutes? Ten? I’m not sure.
But the entire time, as the coked up loony was on his rampage, the Wrestler guy bouncer stood and bellowed “You want a piece of me? HEY! Do you want a piece of me?” over and over, like he was filming an interstitial bit for a pro wrestling tournament.
Nothing at all useful, mind you. Just bellowing ” You want a piece of me? Yeah, you! You want a piece of me“, as the guy trashed the bar and a few of its employees and patrons.
I wonder if that wannabe-wrestler isn’t working as a consultant for the GOP these days.
Conservative groups have been very susceptible to the siren song of tough, unyielding talk combined with poo-poohing actually affecting policy. One example particularly near and dear to my heart – “Minnesota Gun Right”, a group that’s not from Minnesota and will never affect gun rights, but does make a lot of tough-talking videos.
Democrats are phenomenally vulnerable nationwide – married to exploding debt, economic stagnation, genocide against Israel and “woke” decay.
And far too much of the GOP, appears to be heading to the election focused not only on talking the talk and ignoring the walk, but saying “the walk” is stuff “Establishment RINOs” do.
Ben Shapiro talked about this in the first couple of segments of his podcast a few days ago:
To much of the GOP, politics is a (picking adjective carefully) vicious cycle:
- “The swamp” needs to be drained.
- But the swamp has rigged the system to prevent us from draining it.
- “The Swamp” is the product of policy – which, like any policy in a democracy, can be changed, provided you win enough elections to push policy in the direction you want.
- But getting elected to office, and having to do the inevitable horse-trading and make the inevitable compromises that come with actually having to make policy in a divided government makes you “the swamp” (see: Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy). Indeed, talking in terms of “Moving the Needle”, as opposed to “draining the swamp” or otherwise “burning it dall down”, is itself considered being “part of the establishment”.
- But bellowing against the Swamp feels good (and is good for fundraising). Because…repeat from the top.
Conservatives used to be able to play the long game – indeed, conservatism used to be about society’s long game. The Left sought their immediate gratification.
Maybe it’s the most toxic possible result of the collapse of the societal attention span – “conservatism”, or at least the GOP, has become the party of emotion.
Crush Your Argument, Have A Snack
I give Pierre Poilievre – conservative candidate running against Justin “No Way He’s Castro’s Son” Trudeau” about a thousand style points for this response:
Initially I thought Poilievre was being a little brusque in dealing with a potential voter.
I was informed the person “asking” the “questions” is, however, a journalist – someone who’s supposed to explain things clearly to people, who can’t ask a clear question.
Choose wisely, Canada. It’s never too late.
Well, almost never.
Back Door To Federalism?
Chicagoans demand the government get serious about the borders.
Of Chicago. To keep illegal immigrants out of Chicago:
I’ve said for a while now that the way to save this nation, short of outright secession and breakup, is to re-embrace federalism.
This wasn’t exactly the scenario I had in mind, but maybe it’s a start.
Bygone
A friend of the blog emails:
[This advertiser] had it right.
Oh, I completely agree.
It was still morning in America.Notice, of course, thst it was 34 years ago. Reagan had barely left office. The Berlin Wall had yet to fall, but it was teetering.
But this is a good time to remind d you to be the backlash you want to see.
A Thousand Points Of Laser Focus
The DFL did so much damage this past session, it’s hard to track all of it.
Rep. Hudson did a pretty good job of cataloging it – and why it matters (expand the tweet to see it all).
I’ll be talking about this extensively on the show this Saturday.
You’re Being Gaslit
When trying to win a rhetorical or political battle, the idea is when the fact reflect the proposition that you are winning, and that your victory is inevitable. Not only does it show you are on track to win, but it sucks the morale out of your opponents as the contest slogs to its miserable, inevitable end. Sort of like a Timberwolves season.
The next best thing?
To paraphrase the old law school trope: when the facts are against you, argue the ideals. When the ideals are against you, argue the facts. And when the facts are the ideals are against you, convince the enemy that they favor you anyway.
And that’s what Big Left is trying to do; convince Real America that the game is already over.
It’s nothing new – it’s why they parroted twaddle about “the emerging Blue majority” and “Texas will turn blue!” over the past 20 years, as if all political trends are linear.
But there’ve been a few hot ones lately.
“Minnesota Is Irreversibly Blue!”
The DFL outspent the GOP 18:1 in the 2022 elections – and flipped the decisive seat by less than 400 votes.
Fewer than 1,000 votes would have put the House in GOP control.
But for a pretty dismal showing by the Jensen campaign, and the overturning of Roe (which can’t happen again), the Attorney General and State Auditor were on the cusp of winning.
Yes, statewide races are a problem – and I despair of the current MNGOP cracking that code, not that I’m not gonna try to push it.
But saying “Minnesota is pure blue!” is premature.
“Millennials Are Eternally Progressive!”: Maybe not so much anymore.
In the 2020 presidential election, voters who were 18 to 29 in 2008 backed Joe Biden by 55 percent to 43 percent, according to our estimates, a margin roughly half that of Mr. Obama’s 12 years earlier.
The exit polls show it even closer, with Mr. Biden winning by just 51-45 among voters who were 18 to 27 in 2008 (exit polls report results among those 30 to 39, not 30 to 41 — the group that was 18 to 29 in 2008).
And last fall, the young voters of ’08 — by then 32 to 43 — preferred Democratic congressional candidates by just 10 points in Times/Siena polling.
Nobody stays young and stupid forever (DFL communications staff notwithstanding).
“The General Public Is Embracing The Transgender Ideology”: Sincie 2021, the public perception that there are more than two genders has shifted six points.
Away from the transgender narrative.
Sack up, campers. This fight is just beginning.