The failure of the Donorcratic party is the complete lack of elected Dems who openly say exactly this. It’s not even controversial. If you lose to such a big bad horrible human being 2/3 times, you MUST conduct an open dialogue and comprehensive autopsy of why your candidates are falling short. But failing to do this after the 2016 loss led to the shitshow of 2024. Because the message taken was that any shitshow we produce must be good enough for our chump ass voting base. Now they’re bitching and moaning about how awful DSA is.

What’s newsy is Bennet slamming the establishment faction that twice lost to Trump. Hes a moderate-coded Dem, which means the call is now coming from inside the house — a devastating repudiation of the Neera Tanden/DC faction that destroyed the party.

wral.com/news/local/nearly-2… @TheDurhamPolice @LeoForDurham Great job, Durham ghetto!! Yeah, like nobody knows where these thugs are coming from lol.

Incredibly vulnerable and illuminating update from Emma Navarro on what she’s been dealing with the last few years, and it’s far more complex than past reporting has indicated. I highly recommend reading the whole thing on her Instagram. It’s just another reminder that you never really know what someone is going through.

These people really think that if they deport Dr. Patel, they will be living in his home and doing surgery the next day. We have a serious education problem in our country and this really needs to be the center piece of the Democratic platform in 2028.

In the long run, America will not be saved from Trumpism by the Bush-era Republicans & Corporate Dems who got rich and famous ruining the country and creating conditions for Trump’s ascent. It’s fine — and even good — that these narcissistic chaos agents are momentarily part of the sudden popular front against Trump. It’s good that they currently perceive a self-interest in participating in the resistance to the authoritarianism that they themselves helped create. But remember: arsonists are not firefighters. In short order, they will inevitably go back to creating more infernos — probably in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, and maybe sooner in undermining populist Dems in the 2026 midterms. It’s time for a real change. We shouldn’t have to spend our entire lifetimes watching supervillains get rich and famous pretending to be heroes as we all suffer.

Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk. He knows how to win. He knows how to fight. And he knows how to message. And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him. Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play nytimes.com/2026/09/26/us/po…

abc11.com/post/durhams-new-p… @LeoForDurham @TheDurhamPolice @JoshStein_ @RoyCooperNC @TeamCooperNC We wish her good luck, she's gonna need it badly. Her problem begins and ends with the hideous Donorcrat politicians and DA that run 100% of Durham. No Republicans to blame here, they don't exist. The cops are already doing a great job catching the criminals, so throwing more taxes and more money at the problem isn't going to improve anything. Pandering to repeat offender criminals and their communities isn't going to improve ANYTHING and sets a very bad precedent that you are SOFT ON CRIME, which has unfortunately become the Democrat's brand because of their actions in cities like Durham.

New analysis from @bwrighted: America’s top students are doing just fine (The real worry is what has happened to everyone else, particularly the bottom 20 percent)

abc11.com/post/durham-reside… Keep voting in 100% Donorcrats, Durham. Great Job. Disturbing the peace is a bookable offense for EVERYONE else, EVERYWHERE else. But this? Oh, it's just 600 cars driving themselves ... because ya know, SSR = Systemic Structural Racism. Just letting off some steam. Clean up your ghetto act guys. @CityofDurhamNC @TheDurhamPolice @LeoForDurham

Sometimes I wonder which India I grew up in. Because at least back then educated people weren't fucking retarded. Our family has not immersed a Ganpati idol in rivers in *decades*. In India. Religion was optional. Going to temple, optional. Believing in God, optional. When we were told, don't worship real snakes during NagPanchami, we stopped instantly. When we were told that firecrackers cause noise and air pollution, we cut down on crackers. And NO crackers after a certain age (like 8th or 10th). Educated Hindus were wayyyy more sensible in 1980s than they are today. Incidentally BJP was nowhere in 1980s either. :)

This is the experience of many of us left leaning professionals. The luxury beliefs that propelled our civic and policy sensibilities let us down when practical outcomes matter in the short term. The virtue signaling doesn’t pay too many bills. Cupcakes in calculus really destroys math preparedness. But the left has generally speaking become so hostile and intolerant of dissent and discourse who’s going to tell them such things? Their policy orthodoxies have failed us not only in education but also in public safety and criminal justice for the very same reasons.

Yes, well ... ya need 60+ votes to do that and a D president. The way the feckless and incompetent Donorcrat party is currently, hard to see them holding on even to 50, let aloe winning the white house.

All it demonstrates is to what extent the Donorcratic party is owned by the consultant donor lobbyist class country club aristocracy. Their predictably fancy livelihoods continue unabated with establishment candidates they already have in their pockets. Any outsider is a threat to their own survival.

Who else thinks Donald Trump is going to try to call a national emergency and cancel the midterms?

The moment the American dream became unaffordable for the American people is exactly the moment our democracy became unstable. That’s not a coincidence. Our democracy will be renewed when we restore the promise of the American Dream: owning a home, being able to save for your retirement and your kids’ education, and having access to affordable healthcare.

Rahm is the only national level Donorcrat that is talking any practical sense. @RahmEmanuel

The UT-Austin football photo controversy, which has unmasked a really ugly identitarian subcurrent on the right, is deeply ironic. The right-leaning legal movement—conservatives and libertarians—spent decades fighting to defeat the principle that universities should admit students based on race. Texas was even an important battle in this war! In Fisher v. Texas, the right lost, and the Court let the university keep picking kids based on skin color, in 2013 and 2016. Flashforward to 2023, and finally, the right wins: After SFFA v. Harvard, the Court says no more race-conscious admissions. Unfortunately for Bo French and his identitarian ilk, preventing universities from advantaging certain minorities does not only and always benefit white students. But this is what race-neutrality looks like: plenty of Asian and Indian overrepresentation. At some point, if you're against progressive admissions officials privileging certain minorities, and you're also against race-blind policies under which other minorities do well, you are basically just outing your movement as white nationalist and shouldn't complain when you are denounced as such.

The greatest malpractice was the election shitshow if 2024. In supposedly the most dangerous threat to democracy election of our time. We magically allowed a 80 yr old clearly mentally and physically compromised egotist and the cackling DEI chick to fuck it up. Don’t expect much from this hideous party that’s been overrun by the donor lobbyist consultant pollster class aristocracy. They ain’t gonna do shit.