...what advice Team Legacy Media and Team Never Trump will always insist Democrats must follow if they don't want to lose everything.
So, no surprise that, over at The Bulwark, Mark Leibovich's "advice" to Democrats was centered entirely around picking fights with other Democrats.
From Leibovich's Atlantic article, which is why Tim Miller invited him over for a bitch sesh:
The squabble underscored how the Democrats can’t help but keep playing to a stubborn stereotype—a soft and pampered bunch, unwilling to make the gritty sacrifices (such as getting dressed) necessary to prevail in their “existential” campaign to save democracy.
“The Democrats treat their fucking people like kindergartners,” Sarah Longwell, a former Republican consultant who quit the party over Donald Trump, told me. Longwell can get exasperated by her new allies on the left. When I mentioned the DNC’s in-person-work kerfuffle, it set her off.
“Republicans are over here being straight-up mercenaries,” Longwell said. “Democrats give everybody Fridays off and talk about work-life balance.” She apologized for yelling into the phone. Democrats “are not built for when the fascists come,” she concluded...
Martin himself has a knack for reinforcing these caricatures. Just as I was starting this project, he presided over the DNC’s summer meeting in Minneapolis to begin the urgent work of rebuilding the Democratic coalition and making the party palatable to American voters again. Soon after calling the assembly of more than 400 party officials to order, Martin relinquished his mic to a representative of the Saginaw Ojibwe Nation for the DNC’s “land acknowledgment” ritual. Switching between English and her tribal language, the Indigenous woman affirmed that Minneapolis had been stolen from its native Dakota Oyate Tribe (“the original stewards of the lands and waters”).
The interlude took only a minute or two but received outsize attention—and ridicule—as an example of how Democrats remain overly concerned with performative pandering to various small identity groups. “It is difficult to imagine more than a handful of people looking out over the current hellscape of U.S. policy and thinking to themselves: You know what we need to be sure to address today? The Dakota War of 1862,” Andrew Egger wrote in The Bulwark.
Right-wing media gleefully ping-ponged the clip around social media: Wake up, babe, they’re still doing land acknowledgments!
Democrats may believe, sincerely, that there is no harm (and, indeed, some good) in these displays. But many more people instinctively recoil against this sort of thing...
DNC opens summer meeting with land acknowledgement ...
Lindy Sowmick, a Minnesota Democrat and self-described 'Indigenous queer woman,' recited the acknowledgement Monday...
DNC faces ridicule over land acknowledgment
Byron York blasts DNC land acknowledgement...
The Democratic party learned NOTHING as they start summer meeting with "land acknowledgement..."
The Democratic party learned NOTHING as they start summer meeting with "land acknowledgement...
Megyn Kelly reacts to the ridiculously long "land acknowledgement" at DNC summer meeting.
The Democrats have gone insane
Carville slams DNC over land acknowledgment.
Carville rebukes DNC over woke 'land acknowledgment' ...
Carville erupts over DNC's woke land acknowledgment ...
‘It’s Maddening’: Ex-Dem Strategist Slams Party After Day 1 Of DNC Summer MeetingFormer Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine condemned his party on Monday following the first day of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) summer meeting.
One of the first items on the DNC meeting agenda was a “land acknowledgement,” based on the premise that the Minnesota land they were on was improperly taken from indigenous people. Turrentine said on “The Ingraham Angle” that the Democratic Party was repeating its past mistakes that led it to its current diminished state.
“Laura, you said it: it’s the definition of insanity: you just keep doing the same thing over and over again. And as a Democrat, it’s maddening that we’re still not serious,” Turrentine told host Laura Ingraham.
Many years ago when political blogging was in its infancy, I coined the phrase “Cokie’s Law,” which referred to a specific comment by pundit Cokie Roberts about the Lewinsky scandal that illustrated the precise way the beltway media excused their propensity for cheap gossip and scandalmongering. In discussing whether or not Hillary Clinton had actually blamed her husband’s childhood for his philandering, Roberts said:“At this point it doesn’t much matter whether she said it or not because it’s become part of the culture. I was at the beauty parlor yesterday and this was all anyone was talking about.”Cokie’s Law is the axiom that says the press can pass judgement about anything once it’s “out there” regardless of whether or not what’s “out there” is true. This allows them to skip doing boring rebuttals of the facts at hand and instead hold forth at length about how it bears on the subject’s “judgement” and the “appearance” of wrongdoing without ever proving that what they did was wrong.
“The Democrats treat their fucking people like kindergartners,” Sarah Longwell, a former Republican consultant who quit the party over Donald Trump, told me. Longwell can get exasperated by her new allies on the left. When I mentioned the DNC’s in-person-work kerfuffle, it set her off.
“Republicans are over here being straight-up mercenaries,” Longwell said. “Democrats give everybody Fridays off and talk about work-life balance.” She apologized for yelling into the phone. Democrats “are not built for when the fascists come,” she concluded...
Goodness no. Leibovich just had to recycle the bullshit Fox News talking point from last year to make sure the knife went in all the way.
You can watch this shit move through the system like a contrasting agent moving through a human body during a C/T scan. From the Fox News Bombast Machine to Megyn Kelly's histrionics to a useful chump like James Carville shitting pine cones over it, then on to The Bulwark and cable news...
...then recycled and amplified in The Atlantic, then back to The Bulwark where any $10 Cassandra knows what comes next.
A stern warning that if Democrats want to win, they need to start picking fights with other Democrats.
And picking fights with former Democratic presidents.
Oh, and don't forget picking fights with "various groups that make up the party’s broad coalition".
So yay! More hippie punching. All of which is supposed to make Democrats more popular with "regular people."
And yet somehow going after Republicans -- y'know, the actual fascists who actually have a knife to the throat of American democracy -- isn't really on the menu.
So, should Democrats follow this advice and start a circle of infighting, what exactly is it that "regular people" are supposed to suddenly notice? That no Democrat likes the Democrats? That every Democrat is running against their own party?
In which case this $10 Cassandra predicts that, should any of that happen, we can all look forward to a chorus of Team Legacy Media and Team Never Trump voices decrying "Democrats in disarray."
One final note, by way of demonstrating that anyone can have all kinds of fun with Cokie's Law. Can you believe Sarah Longwell losing her shit and yelling into the phone while she was on the record?
But, well, what'dya expect? Chicks, amirite! Way too emotional to be trusted with really important jobs.
And, being a sane and decent person, you would probably bark at me. How dare I! And rightly demand that I take that misogynist shit back.
But, see, under the shield of Cokie's Law I am protected.
Because under the shield of Cokie's Law it doesn't matter if it's true.
All that matters is my assertion that some non-specific group of "people" are talking about it.
That it's "out there"
That it's "in the air".
That it's what I'm hearing.
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