As usual, thoughtful 🤔 Sending to my Houston bros, professional whites and evangelical black voters, 2028 is a long way off, first we have to survive this November with the Insurrection Act threat inching towards reality
No offense, Michael, but I feel like you're using a lot of words to describe the recent influx of renters in Mamdani/Talarico's coalition when just one would do: "gentrifiers." (Eric Adams was a one-term mayor for many reasons, but even if he *wasn't* a walking Thomas Nast drawing, he'd struggle to get re-elected because his power base got priced out of the city.)
Will the Mamdani/Talarico strategy play in Peoria? Maybe: depends whether all the progressive-minded Peorians have moved to NYC/Austin!
A fine example of what I call "Nate-erring" after a certain NYT-affiliated pundit.
1] Define what you think consists of "substance," while carefully avoiding asking the polled populations what their needs and fears are.
2] Decide then that there are no "substantive" differences between the two candidates. The pollster's equivalent of "I don't see color."
3] Happily announce that candidates cannot win according to the substance whose existence you've just denied. They can only win according to style.
Incidentally: anyone who thinks Talarico has rizz had better watch his interventions in the State Legislature. It's not that I'm disappointed that Crockett lost, it's that she was set up to lose in favor of Talarico. That man is going to be the Walter Mondale of Texas, 2026.
As usual, thoughtful 🤔 Sending to my Houston bros, professional whites and evangelical black voters, 2028 is a long way off, first we have to survive this November with the Insurrection Act threat inching towards reality
No offense, Michael, but I feel like you're using a lot of words to describe the recent influx of renters in Mamdani/Talarico's coalition when just one would do: "gentrifiers." (Eric Adams was a one-term mayor for many reasons, but even if he *wasn't* a walking Thomas Nast drawing, he'd struggle to get re-elected because his power base got priced out of the city.)
Will the Mamdani/Talarico strategy play in Peoria? Maybe: depends whether all the progressive-minded Peorians have moved to NYC/Austin!
A fine example of what I call "Nate-erring" after a certain NYT-affiliated pundit.
1] Define what you think consists of "substance," while carefully avoiding asking the polled populations what their needs and fears are.
2] Decide then that there are no "substantive" differences between the two candidates. The pollster's equivalent of "I don't see color."
3] Happily announce that candidates cannot win according to the substance whose existence you've just denied. They can only win according to style.
Incidentally: anyone who thinks Talarico has rizz had better watch his interventions in the State Legislature. It's not that I'm disappointed that Crockett lost, it's that she was set up to lose in favor of Talarico. That man is going to be the Walter Mondale of Texas, 2026.