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4. This is an excellent column.
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:17 PM
Feb 2024

This right here:

For Democrats, the idea is to prove how noble and non-partisan they are in comparison to the hacks on the GOP side but it just ends up coming back to bite them in the end.

Our delusion is that Republican voters mean what they say when they complain about bad morals, gridlock, the need for bipartisanship, etc. it's been proven over and over that Republican voters, for the most part, don't care at all about those things. They're just excuses for voting against Democrats. These supposedly deeply held beliefs get tossed aside when a Republican does them.

We need to stop falling for this. It makes us weak to keep willfully misunderstanding our opponents. And they are our opponents.

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