The other governors should have walked out of the WH today

[gulliver]

36. Ineffective rhetoric in this day and age I'm afraid.

I'm not sure how many people you can persuade with cautionary tales from a history no one knows, whether it is the history of the Nazis or even the history of the American dirtbags who wanted to march in Illinois a few decades later. I would even argue that both of those lessons are of little use in the modern world. It moves too fast, it's too superficial, and its rhetoric is fueled by an information volume and velocity that completely puts previous eras to shame.

We need to be "based." This absurd fight over Title IX, for example, is something I would say the Dem rank-and-file probably doesn't want prioritized. To say the least. Our leaders, if they are going to fight for things like federal school funds, reproductive freedom, Medicaid, and so forth, need to lead with those issues. We don't need to let Trump and Musk laugh at us and goad us into punching their fists with our faces.

And I love Pritzker and Illinois in general, btw. This is not a criticism of them!