My very strong suspicion is that the left/right axis and the fight/don't-fight axis are in the process of unlinking, and that the fight/don't-fight split is emerging as the core struggle in the Democratic Party.
We seriously need to separate the left/right axis from the fight/don’t fight axis.
Mar 7, 2025 14:36The thing about "we should have caved on trans rights" and "we lost because of Latinx" isn't just that they're wrong—although yes, both are horrifically wrong. It's that even if they were right, they'd be irrelevant to defeating the Trumpist attack on democracy and the federal administrative state.
The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.
And the way you land that voter is the way you get those Social Security checks and VA jobs and cancer trials back. You fucking fight.
