And this is why Democrats will keep losing.

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    18 days ago

    Exactly. Getting rid of all the shitty Democrats is a tall order, but the Tea Partiers didn’t do that, they just took as many of them down as possible and scared the rest into obedience.

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      18 days ago

      Tea party has a lot of money and nothing else to do but play intrigues for decades.

      You cannot adapt this strategy for the masses of people who still need to feed their families.

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        18 days ago

        I don’t see how “having to feed their family” plays into this at all. Tea Partiers didn’t apply mass numbers at their stunts, just kept showing up. Angry Democrats are not so pressed for time that we can’t muster a few hundred to protest and make a spectacle any time a Democratic politician goes back on a promise.

        I also do not find the “money rules everything” fatalism particularly useful. The Democrats keep losing races despite raising more money, and people like AOC still beat entrenched donor-focused politicians.