It is important that this election not be misinterpreted or misdiagnosed.

[Sympthsical]

21. Data is data

I believe the last WaPo poll before the election had the issue split 43D/42R of people who had threats to democracy as a priority. This is the problem I have with how our side tends to be very insular. I read spaces on the Right and see what they're like and talking about. Believe me, they are just as exercised about the threats they perceive to democracy as we are. They've been discussing it nonstop since 2020.

Not "all" the election deniers lost. There were a lot of them on the ballot, and a lot of those people won. We're taking prominent ones going down of indicative of the entire election, which is a mistake. Just because the media highlights things doesn't make them blanket true. Anecdotes not data, etc.

Check out Trump's endorsements vs. success rate.

https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump#2022

80% of them (so far) have won.

It's not good to just feel things without data or base them on experiences that are heavily tilted to one side. We have to work with objective reality, and objective reality reveals the Right takes the democracy issue as they see it very seriously, and a whole mess of Trump's people got through.

I think it's dangerous not to recognize this. Are we going to just ignore them until 2024? Because we shouldn't. We should be acknowledging them right now and sound the alarms early instead of latching onto a fictitious media narrative that they all lost somehow.

We've earned a breath in all this - not comfort.