That's Ben Wikler, answering the question: "You have said for years that abortion rights is the issue that best motivates Democratic voters and best convinces Republicans to vote for Democrats. Did something change about that in this election, or did the Harris campaign not focus enough on abortion rights?"
From "Wisconsin Democratic Chair Says He Is the One to Revive a Distressed Party/Ben Wikler, who has led the Wisconsin Democratic Party since 2019, announced a bid to be national party chair with a platform to 'unite, fight, win'" (NYT)(free-access link).
From "Wisconsin Democratic Chair Says He Is the One to Revive a Distressed Party/Ben Wikler, who has led the Wisconsin Democratic Party since 2019, announced a bid to be national party chair with a platform to 'unite, fight, win'" (NYT)(free-access link).
I like Ben because I knew him quite well when he was a teenager. He's obviously got highly developed verbal skills. Not highly developed enough to keep me from noticing that he didn't confront the complexities of the Democrats' involvement with the abortion issue. They forefronted it, and he wanted them to forefront it.
Did something change about that in this election, or did the Harris campaign not focus enough on abortion rights? What's the answer? The question required him to pick. Either it's no longer true that abortion is the Democrats' best issue OR the Democrats needed to push even harder on the abortion issue. But maybe leaping past a reporter's well-structured question and saying "It's the economy, stupid" in elaborate, elegant language is a good demonstration of the skill Democrats want in their chair.
ADDED: I spent a lot of time trying to ascribe meaning to "break pearls in half." A commenter — wild chicken — asked if that's "a saying in Wisconsin." And I got all involved:
Then I got a text from Meade: "Pills/Bad transcription by NYT."I googled it when I was writing the post, and I considered elaborating on this figure of speech. I couldn't find any example of "break pearls in half" as a figurative expression. I did find out that pearls are *cut* in half for some purposes, but these were real, not metaphorical, pearls. What did Ben mean? All I can think of is Mickey Mouse, starving, and cutting one bean into slices.
For more laughs, here's Mickey:
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Those who experienced the pandemic financial support slipping away? You mean pretty much everybody what could be reached by helicopter money? Many of my millionaire neighbors got big checks…
…expect to see much more of this wailing now that thousands of the otherwise unemployable see their phoney-baloney jobs are in great peril…
Surrender. Capitulate. Wander the woods.
Ben Wikler is evil. The people who support him are even more evil.
Inflation wasn't Biden's fault in any case. It was the covid shutdown with nobody producing and everybody consuming destroying businesses and the supply chain, and all that has to recover before people bidding prices up ends.
Spending is out of control but that was all financed with borrowing, which is not inflationary. The dollars borrowed are taken out of the economy before they're spent back in, net same number of dollars. That's the point of borrowing.
I'm not confident Trump even understands what the Fed does to bring down inflation, namely sell debt and burn the dollars it gets for it, resulting in a higher interest rate. Trump thinks that's killing his economy and may pressure against it, which will bring back inflation.
The people who support blowing over a billion dollars on a failed election should contemplate the notion that Trump and Elon really doesn’t care about an extra billion dollars in their bank account…
Rhhardin: biden’s administration made selective choices that made the situation worse.
Many of them, including outright lies and abusing and silencing those in the scientific community who questioned them, often destroying lives and careers.
To say he has no responsibility for inflation is absurd and emotional.
I'm not exactly sure where on the planet scrimping takes the form of breaking pearls in half but surely a man with highly developed verbal skills from Wisconsin knows it's too provincial to speak in terms of beer brats and brandy.
They simply can’t move on, to coin a phrase. The practical effect of Dobbs has started to resonate with people who see the power shifting to the states on the issue. Perhaps more people believed Trump when he repeatedly said he wouldn’t sign a national ban if presented to him as president than believed Harris’s unsubstantiated claims that Trump would.
Exactly. Well said.
Wikler’s an abusive ass on illegal immigration costs, moral, legal, and economic. He considers more than half the country fascistic in their desire to restore border control and stop supporting scumbag illegals who are the new welfare queens while they can’t support their own families adequately. Why should anyone even care if you knew him in high school? It’s only issues that matter, right?
By the way, Ben, “Those hit hardest by rising prices” includes the vast majority of Americans. I’m so old I remember when democrats used to divide the groups in question into “the 1% and the other 99.” Does Ben not realize how much everyday expenses increased for “the 99” since 2020?
And I'm not confident that you know your ass from a hole in the ground. After all Trump's first term ended with inflation at 2 - 2.5 percent.
One trick ponies going to do the one trick.
Democrats win when voters know that we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account.
Yes, abortion is still the Democrats best issue. But this quote shows that Democrats would still rather blame corporate greed than confront the fact socialism doesn't work.
I hope the Dems keep running on abortion because by the next presidential election, if not by the midterms the states will have sorted this issue out themselves and abortion should be in the rear-view mirror as regards national elections.
How much is a broken pearl worth?
In a memo to the incoming leader of the Democratic National Committee posted on his Substack, the "celebrated" Havard pollster, John Della Volpe addresses the abandonment of the Democrat Party by a portion of the electorate. His prescription for the Dems to regain the trust of those voters is to set up a "comprehensive listening infrastructure" as follows:
- Establishing dozens of Community Solutions Centers in communities nationwide, each equipped with both physical gathering spaces and digital content creation labs
- Staffing each center with trained community organizers earning competitive full-time salaries, not campaign wages, including dedicated digital community managers
- Establishing tools to better understand and respond to community needs in real time across both physical and digital spaces
- Implementing monthly listening sessions and workshops where community members shape local policy priorities
- Training local leaders and organizers in authentic engagement across platforms
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No one, but no one, is as clueless about the predicament of the Democrat Left as a Democrat Leftist.
Agreed. The Dobbs decision popped the Dem’s abortion balloon. It was a genius power play by Trump, and it took years and tremendous focus to achieve. And, the decision came down far enough ahead of the 2024 to help him win re-election.
Ben Wikler is obviously a clever and ambitious guy. Wondering if he’s smart and wise enough to read the comments to this post.
Dear Ben:
The Democrat party has a core problem. It is fundamentally working against the American people. If the Dems have any hope of winning in the future, they have to purge the woke from the party leadership.
Trump has worked a fundamental shift in American politics. The rank and file of the unions are now voting for the GOP and will in the foreseeable future. People won’t soon forget the invasion of illegal aliens that Joe allowed. Voters also won’t soon forget the unnecessary inflation that is now fully embedded in our economy and was caused by Biden’s reckless spending.
You’d be smart to reject the Green New Deal. Just say it: The era of Green Energy is over. Admit that CAGW is the biggest scam in the history of the world.
the skill Democrats want in their chair.
He immediately tripped my BS alarm. It is difficult to recover from bad first impressions.
"Break pearls in half"? Is that a saying in Wisconsin?
I'd like to see him deal with voter fraud in Milwaukee and other blue cities. What are the chances?
That gravy train ain't gonna feed itself.
I recently read that a single ad agency pulled in something like $300 million from the Harris campaign, and also that left wing influencers want the DNC to "invest" by putting them on the payroll to the tune of millions of dollars per year. They understand which side of their bread is buttered.
let us not forget they still stole a Senate Seat from you,
the Molochian high priestess failed in her task
Your advice on economics is about as useful as your advice on sexual relations.
Abortion isn’t the national issue it has been now that the individual state legislatures are in charge…as it should have been left in the first place. Also, folks are flat tired of it.
- Krumhorn
I know exactly why the Democrats lost and you know what ... I'm not going to tell them. I don't want them to change. I want them to keep focusing on abortion and trying to make it legal to rape kids.
Ben Wikler can use all those nice words, but the reality is that if the Dems want to win in 2028 they are going to have to cheat.
Here in Arizona, the abortion issue was front and center in the Gallego-Lake Senate race. Although Trump won the state, Kari lost because of her strong anti-abortion stand.
I just read Wikler’s wiki entry. While at Harvard, he contributed to The Onion and he helped Al Franken write one of his books.
Funny guy.
He should have me as a guest on his podcast.
"Democrats win when voters know that we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account."
Might help when your top of the ticket campaign isn't the one literally raking in a billion dollars and then distributing amongst the already billionaires as their primary campaign expenditures.
""Break pearls in half"? Is that a saying in Wisconsin?"
I googled it when I was writing the post, and I considered elaborating on this figure of speech. I couldn't find any example of "break pearls in half" as a figurative expression. I did find out that pearls are *cut* in half for some purposes, but these were real, not metaphorical, pearls. What did Ben mean? All I can think of is Mickey Mouse, starving, and cutting one bean into slices: https://youtu.be/2F8GDx7M49k?si=ZhkXGoE4W4adpIfe
If the money had been borrowed you might be right but it was "Printed," that is, created out of thin air by the Fed. pouring cash into the economy with nothing to back it up indeed creates inflation.
"we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account." LOL. Dems were fighting for their special interests by adding trillions to the debt and fueling inflation. The only people they fought for were illegal aliens.
"saying "It's the economy, stupid" in elaborate, elegant language is a good demonstration of the skill Democrats want in their chair." Or at least, in language high-SES women will perceive as "elegant" rather than as the BS the rest of us detect. Keep it up, Dems. More Wiklers, please.
Justice RBG was right about effects of Roe on national politics and Justice Alito was the only one who understood the implications. Abortion worked as a national issue in 22 because of the shock of Dobbs. The shock is wearing off and for the vast majority what will matter most is do I like the laws where I live.
Huh. When I saw a few days ago that there would be a battle for new chair of the DNC, I wondered if our Wisconsin guy would take a run at it.
Let me guess: Della Volpe offered to "spearhead" the Democrat Listening Infrastructure* at an appropriate 8-figure salary?
*Not to be confused with the Uniparty Listening Infrastructure, which is already well-established.
Ben probably heard you use that expression when he was hanging around your house as a kid.
The Dems aren't going to win until they investigate and purge the people who have just screwed around with the electoral system for at least the last decade.
He should have a leg up because of the relative overperformance of the Wis Dems in the state legislative races, which is a downstream consequence of the Wisconsin Supreme Court shifting from a conservative to a progressive majority, all of which he can credibly claim to have had a significant hand in.
He is going to have a hard time pushing that "Democrats will protect you from the billionaires" line when most of the billionaires are Democrats.
just came back from Thanksgiving with rich executive sister, and her rich executive husband.
They both voted Harris (of course).
I asked if they thought she (or Biden) would have done better?
they said: "They've BOTH done great! Just look at the economy!!!!"
When i said that i meant in the race, my rich executive sister said:
"Well, Biden said he was too old to want to run, so Harris did..
and LOTS of people refused to vote for a woman!"
So, according to the rich executives that i know:
Biden (and Harris) have done a GREAT JOB on the economy..
Biden didn't run, because HE THOUGHT he was too old to run..
Harris lost because of sexism
These are the people running our countries businesses.. Any Questions WHY our business are SO F*cked Up?
wait a minute, i AM confused..
you said that BIDEN had NOTHING to do with it..
THEN you said that what the Fed does to bring down inflation, namely sell debt and burn the dollars it gets for it
So, according to YOUR twisted little world,
Inflation is ONLY caused by PEOPLE ( nobody producing and everybody consuming)..
BUT! according to YOUR twisted little world,
Inflation is ONLY solve by THE FED, namely namely sell debt and burn the dollars?
rhhardin, you are LITERALLY the stupidest old geezer in the world
rhhardin? can you briefly tell us your economic resume?
where did you get your degree?
where did you practice?
was it the same place you got your expertise on women?
"Spending is out of control but that was all financed with borrowing, which is not inflationary."
That isn't how the money was borrowed for COVID payments and Biden's Build Back Better, however. Yes- if the money had been borrowed from the wide market place, that money would have simply been redirected towards the good and services the borrower wanted to buy and away from the goods and services the lender wanted to buy- on net it would not be inflationary. However, this money was borrowed from the Federal Reserve which simply bought a large portion of the debt issued from 2020-2022 by creating new money in the federal government's account- thus the new money was chasing the goods and services the previsiously issued money was still chasing since the old money had not actually been borrowed.
Hmm, no mention of the fact that many democrats are nauseatingly distasteful creatures who no clue about average Americans. As for the distasteful part, the hildabeast and kamala as candidates but also several democrat senators and representatives. Let's face it, when your campaign and statements are all about how America and Americans are horrible, awful people all of the time; one shouldn't be surprised when their response is bugger off. But, I don't expect that that democrat behavior or vitriol will change. That is how they truly feel and believe after all.
Hello? When you shut down most small businesses, put lots people out of work, issue big Covid checks, and enable-encourage corporate businesses to keep big box storefronts open and/or further expand their e-commerce retail business, then you are responsible for economic consequences to households and small business owners. And you are responsible for maximizing big corporate profits related to Covid and its economic impacts. Big Pharma, big hospital operators, internet/communications, and Amazon were biggest beneficiaries of Biden administration. 90% of American households were biggest losers in Biden administration. Get your facts.
Wikler surprisingly has it backwards the lockdowns he championed made peoples personal fortunes more fragile, the giveaways devalued the rest of their savings,
Rona spent little money on outreach and none on fraud prevention as RNC chair,
Abortion did not work for the Dems because nobody did the arithmetic.
A plurality if not majority of the voters for whom Abortion is Issue #1 already live in NY, CA, IL. As long as Dobbs is in effect, they will have the absolute right to abort up to the time that water breaks.
There is still a considerable number of people for whom Abortion is very important who live in TX, FL, and similar. That is the reason that Harris lost by single rather than double digits in those states.
The Venn diagram for people who thinks that "gender affirming surgery" should be available to teenagers overlaps completely.
People who dislike abortions and mutilating teenagers are migrating to red states. The reverse is true to a lesser degree; moving from Katy. Texas, to an analogous suburb of NYC, LA, or Chicago is unaffordable for a lot of them, even if they could get a similar job. They can travel to NM or elsewhere for an abortion if the need arises a lot easier than they can make a permanent move (unfortunately).
We just returned from a Thanksgiving family gathering. We range from Pure Deplorable for UberWoke politically. No discussion of the election or political topics occurred, except for my very elderly mother, who apparently took seriously her assignment to inject a NY Times talking point at least once every hour into totally irrelevant conversations. Her comment were blissfully ignored.
So he's selling the idea that inflation happens because business owners wake up extra greedy one day and rip everyone off? Geeze. Is there no one serious in politics anymore?
You misspelled Green Leap Forward.
Fact that $1.4 billion fails to secure election win also confirms that Harris was a terrible candidate. Harris outspent Trump threefold. No wonder DNC posted that embarrassing video last week; the DNC leadership want Kamala done and gone.
Sadly, Harris still thinks she has a national political future. Good for the RNC, bad for the DNC. Only a diehard Democrat could vote for Harris, and then only with the small comfort that Swamp would continue to govern for her anyways.
Puberty blockers and gender affirming surgery deprive teenage girls of their right to abortions.
Wikler studied Economics at Harvard.
I’m listening to Ben Wikler on Stayed Tuned with Preet. Taped before the election.
Wikler is the Dems’ man and they would be idiots not to hire him. He’s got the comedy down. He’s also an unusually good liar. Unusually good. He’s in the same league as Bill Clinton. He also has the buzz phrases down pat. Big time Trump hater.
Two obvious lies:
1. The Dems won WI in 2020 due to hard work. Wrong. It was due to cheating.
2. The GOP has the big campaign money. A laughable lie.
For me, with my one vote, they focused too much on abortion and it made me cringe every time I heard abortion refered to as the mother's "health care." Abortion is already legal, up to a point, in three quarters of the states, so what exactly were they proposing? It seemed to be full term abortions. God help us!!
Abortion is a natural top concern for (1) women of reproductive age who sleep around a lot without using birth control, and (2) men who sleep around a lot with women of reproductive age and who don't use birth control. There's only so much juice to squeeze from that voting bloc, as everyone else tends to consider personal responsibility with sex and/or prioritize the economy and crime and national security.
Every Dem postmortem I've heard has included some form of, "But it's not the economy, stupid."
The Democrats still view the world through the lens of climate change fear and abortion at all times.
Most of the rest of the nation sees these things as something to perhaps consider somewhere down the line of priorities. Way down the line, depending on who you are asking or where they live, or perhaps what gender they are.
But you still just don't see Democrats taking our open border, our endless war machine, our dying manufacturing base, our gutted middle class as anything to give credence to at all.
In other words, Ben Wikler sounds like any other Democrat to me in his statement. Nothing learned. Nothing truly understood. He abstractly mentions something economy-related. But the way he phrases it: "It's clear, from this election..."? Apparently it wasn't clear to Democrats going in to the election, and based on his statement, I'd say it's still not.
Wikler thought Walz was a good VP candidate.
I think a big reason abortion won't work so well as a national issue for dems is that, for the vast majority of women who want it to be legal, it IS legal -- in the states where they live. It's a big ask for women in pro-abortion states to be expected to prioritize abortion rights as an issue simply because women in a few OTHER states (red states) may have limited access to abortion.
The Democrats' number one issue is the performance of human rites for social, clinical, criminal, political, and climate progress. Planned parenthood offers an incentive to rape... uh, rape-rape, incest, friendship with "benefits", and other purposes in a liberal Democrazi. Sequester the "burden" of evidence. h/t Obama
What a demented religion of ancient conception. That said, let us bray: In Stork We Trust... pass the bennies.
Walz 'N Karma-la
Dems have become the party of policies that simply don't make sense to most people. Just as one example, letting in over 10 million illegals makes no sense. Even if you think we need a certain number of illegals to mow our lawns, etc., it still makes no sense to let in 10 million, including many hardened criminals, who need to be put on the public dole. But dems went all in on censorship, lawfare, and propaganda, thinking they could keep people from noticing how bad their policies. It didn't work, and now the dems have two distinct problems: Replacing their godawful policies and repairing the trust they lost with average voters.
Democratic leaders are oncerned that progressive prices will no longer be subsidized with "benefits".
Homicide statutes in all 50 states allow for elective abortion up to six weeks past a woman's choice to fuck. And in cases of self-defense through reconciliation. Do liberals propose to change those laws and adopt Capitol (sic) punishment? An ancient religious rite in a modern family.
Can't say I've hears the saying about breaking the pearls, but I do seem to have a vague memory from and old movie where it was a big deal that mom had her prized pearl necklace cut down to a bracelet to help in hard times. It was to signify things were real rough as they were the last of the good things the husband/father had provided.
Gilbar: Great insight. The Dems are the party of the rich.
Democrat leadership might have a hard time keeping both Feminists and Trans Activists on board.
Yeh. Got into the economy issue over at Volokh. The people who thought that the economy was fine all seemed to have “portfolios” that had done well. Well, what about those who don’t have decent portfolios? On fixed incomes? The sort of people Democrats used to worry about?
If you look at the Milwaukee election map in the NYT which Althouse posted a few days ago, you can see that the North Shore and Wauwatosa, which are well-off white areas, went somewhat more strongly for Harris than before while the Hispanic areas went very strongly for Trump and the black areas slightly for Trump.
How does this relate to abortion? It's my opinion that abortion is our most important issue just as slavery was when slavery was legal but only prolifers and the well-off see it that way. Pro-lifers are mostly Republicans and the well-off are moving toward the Democrats. The prolife position is and always has been that the issue should be returned to the states and it has been. So trying to elevate abortion to a national issue meant in Milwaukee terms that only the North Shore and Wauwatosa really (possibly) had it top of mind. And I believe that climate change, Gaza and general wokiness were competing for top of mind in that group.
On the other hand, you cannot look at a map of the Milwaukee vote without seeing that minorities moved toward Trump regardless of Dobbs (for which Trump was responsible due to his Court choices.) And, looking back, the Milwaukee minorities have been moving irrevocably toward Trump as the Dems moved irrevocably toward Woke. This is particularly true of the Hispanics who are the largest minority by far.
And this move by the Dems in a direction which the Hispanics do not like cannot change because the Dem activists are all wokies while the Hispanics are all small businessmen or aiming to be such as well as being Catholic or Evangelical. Furthermore, it won't work to try to be "economic" by messaging hatred of big business as Ben Wikler wants to do because the actual policies the wokies enact always hurt small businesses. And the Hispanics know it. So do the Chinese.
The fact is that the Dems are all in on a society in which big businesses is tightly allied to big government and both are pushing the rest of us around big time aka "rule of the experts." And we the people see it and don't want it. I don't say the Dems are gone after this election because power has its ways but I do say the Dems will never again be a legitimate majority till the wokies* are gone. Luckily, they support abortion up to birth and hate families.
*Wokies are not the same as old school liberals as we all know.
He is going to have a hard time pushing that "Democrats will protect you from the billionaires" line when most of the billionaires are Democrats.
The party of George Soros, who has spent 50 times as much money as Elon Musk on political machinations, has nothing to say about billionaires that need be treated with anything but derisive contempt.
"It’s clear from this election that there are many voters, especially those hardest hit by rising prices, those who experienced the pandemic-era financial support slipping away, who voted primarily on the economy."
IOW, the Biden administration didn't print enough money. Good grief.
According to Ben Wikler on the podcast, the GOP had all the money. Liar.
"- Staffing each center with trained community organizers earning competitive full-time salaries, not campaign wages, "
Maybe, instead of blowing a billion+ dollars on celebrities and ad-buys, they should use the money instead to pay their campaign workers a decent wage. Just a thought.
Abortion is a natural top concern for (1) women of reproductive age who sleep around a lot without using birth control, and (2) men who sleep around a lot with women of reproductive age and who don't use birth control.
This is what I've been saying. When my progressive friends with daughters have expressed their upset about this election and their fears for their girls, all I can think of is, "So you want your daughter to be able to have unlimited unprotected sex? That's your thing?" And, "You think that the Republican alternative to unlimited unprotected sex is forced marriage a la Handmaid's Tale?"
"Democrats win when voters know that we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That train left the station with the election of William J. Clinton and it was the Silicon Valley Express under Obama. The Demmies haven't been for the little guy since Truman. People like Wikler make me sick. I hope he gets the job.
"According to Ben Wikler on the podcast, the GOP had all the money. Liar."
Wow. Not into honesty much, is he? This guy's no different than all the hacks that have preceded him.
"Wikler thought Walz was a good VP candidate."
I wonder if he really believes that. Like you said, he's a good liar.
" to most people. Just as one example, letting in over 10 million illegals makes no sense."
It makes sense for democrats; they're importing voters. It may have hurt them this election, but they're playing the long game. It's why it's so important to deport illegals. Democrats can't be allowed to succeed at this heinous strategy.
to be fair (to my sister and her husband)..
They DID make a Great Thanksgiving feast..
AND, they didn't kick me out of the house
(even when i said i was thankful, that we would Finally have a Supermodel as 1st lady again)
AND, they took us all out to a Really Nice steakhouse.
12 oz New York Prime Sirloin ($57)
Creamed spinach with bacon ($12) {was VERY good}
Crème brûlée with raspberries ($12)
and they insisted on grabbing the whole bill.. So for the last few days, the economy HAS been very good to me :)
Debt is not new money or printed money of any kind. It's the opposite. You can't spend a bond. You give the government your money for the bond, and now the government has your money and can spend it. The government spends it instead of you. There's the same number of dollars in circulation as before. In return for the use of your money, they pay interest (enough to entice you to buy a bond) and promise to pay it back later.
The debt is a problem that's out of control but it's not inflationary.
Enigma said..
Abortion is a natural top concern for
(1) women of reproductive age who sleep around a lot without using birth control..
(2) men who sleep around a lot with women who sleep around a lot without using birth control..
and also
(3) women who already HAD abortions, and WANT to think that That was Just Swell
i think (3) is by far the largest group..
However, (1) (2) and (3) ALREADY vote almost exclusively democrat, and thus abortion is largely irrelevant as an issue..
Try to think of a Pro-Choice voter that would vote republican if only..
You'd have to be pretty silly to think that it'd make a Crucial difference
Dave Begley said..
..obvious lies:
1. The Dems won WI in 2020 due to hard work. Wrong. It was due to cheating.
Hey! it IS hard work! those ballot boxes don't stuff themselves!
Getting a list at 8pm election day of all the registered voters that didn't vote, and filling out ballots for them and stuffing them into the collection boxes.. and THEN counting them (maybe once, maybe twice, maybe thrice)
Sounds exhausting to me! :)
Cutting pearls in half is apparently something familiar to those in the crafts community. They use them to make earrings. Two earrings for the price of one, I guess. I also notice that some looky-loos in the idle curiosity community wonder if cutting pearls in half will make layers and the original grain of sand at the center visible. Cutting pearls in half isn't a metaphor for poverty because you have to have the pearls first to cut in half and most people don't.
Making abortion the centerpiece of the campaign goes along with the idea that elections are won not by winning over swing voters but by bringing out the base of real or imaginary voters. That goes along with the 50-50 divided country and the idea that the condition of the country isn't going to push very many undecided voters to one party or another. This year, though, the state of the nation did push many independent and even Democrat voters over to Trump.
I read the edited interview and Wikler makes it clear that he believes the Democrats' problem is that they are not getting their message out to the voters.
He has my full support for DNC Chairman.
Messaging strategy just needs a little twerk.
"We need a 50 state permanent campaign."
- Ben Wikler
Fuck off, Ben.
Define "we". That's exactly what the country doesn't need. But Ben doesn't give a damn about the country.
Winkler studied Economics at Harvard.
And Winkler's economic explanations just show what a poor investment an education from Harvard is these days.
In a lot of places pushing on abortion is like pushing on an open door. Nevada went for Trump, but also voted to put the right to abortion into the state constitution.
Obviously, we’re going from class system to caste system.
The real trick was to eviscerate the Medieval obligations of the Christian serf system.
Good analysis.
The democrats still don’t get it. They can talk to issues of the working class all they want, like inflation. But until they abandon identity politics and support for degeneracy they are not going to win blue collar workers. Blue collar workers are turned off by men in dresses, DEI hires, looting, and burning down the neighborhood. Defund the police only sounds good to upper middle class professionals who don’t live with crime 24/7. Harris did speak to inflation - she said it was price gouging by greedy corporations. But she didn’t address the fact that she was willing to give prisoners sex change treatments on the government dime.
This is common democrat trope. The voters just didn’t get our fantastic message. Hubris is a democrat norm.
I call bullshit. Biden extended the free money payments to EVERYONE regardless of their employment status during COVID. The free excess money triggered inflation. This and the fucking insane Inflation Reduction Act which flooded the system with money.
Plus Biden’s other problem was that he refused to recognize inflation as an issue for a long time. And when he finally acknowledged it, he blamed greedy corporations for price gouging. But what do we expect from a demented moron.
I take it the Dems think Trump won’t be the end of “our democracy” after all.
The Federal Reserve buys the debt from the banks that are its straw purchasers. You need to understand the Federal Reserves Open Markets Operations before you pop off. The Federal Reserve buying the governments debt is a key tool of monetary policy. In certain situations it can cause inflation.
Trump won Wisconsin. Ben W can take some credit for Baldwin hanging on. That was mostly because a certain segment of Trump voters didn’t even vote for senator in Wisconsin.
As for abortion, it’s legal and easy in the blue states and swing states. Ben W doesn’t understand male voters. Neither do the Dems. So he’s perfect for DNC chair
As long as interstate transportation is available abortion is not an important issue. Democrat women may be too stupid to notice. Other people are not.
Sorry, Mister Insider Rahm Emmanuel will wipe floor with Wisconsin arriviste Ben Wikler. What a rank amateur to national politics.
You don't think they cheated this election?
Try this... "Cheat Harder".
Abortion wasn’t thee issue for women in the swing states because nothing changed. Women care about other issues. They care about their country and its future for their kids. Women don’t like phony Kamala.
How could the Democrats possibly have focused any harder than they did on what they called "a woman's right to choose"? The dogmatic insistence on a woman's "right" to treat the fetus in the womb as no more than a threat, as the equivalent of a dangerous tumor to be removed, by any means: that repelled me, as I'm sure it did many others who were not at all inclined to vote for Mr. Trump.
this! internet winner!
Has Ben Wikler ever had a real job, or has he just run around the landscape "doing" politics? In another era, he'd have been president of the Greek council at Faber College.
I'd hate to have this dude's toothpaste bill. That's some Gary Busey shit he's got going. Grill like a 50's Buick.
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