"Today, We Are All Walter Mondale". Democrats learned the wrong lesson from 1984.

[TygrBright]

24. Could someone please translate this sentence for me?

This one:

"The Legion of Hedge Fund Mangers tends to be socially liberal and elected Republicans who see the debt ceiling as an inviting hostage and government shutdowns are a fun thing to do make them nervous so maximizing their influence in the party that is not home to Louie Gohmert is an obvious play for them to make but that’s all it really is."

Please, someone.... what does it mean?

And this one: "On the national level, Bill Daley, possibly the quintessential JPM Dem, who has gone from from JPMorgan to Third Way (if that can be considered a journey at all — it really shouldn’t be), to a disastrous stint as Obama’s Chief of Staff, to dropping out of a Democratic primary in Illinois to pre-empt losing, wrote a typical warning in the Washington Post citing the defection of Alabama conservaDem Parker Griffith as a sign that the party was moving away from a position from which it could win." makes me want to cry.

So does this one: "The New Dems’ main angle, the one they’re working now by speaking in ominous tones about the specter of a redux of 1984 that exists only in their heads, is vastly overstating the role political spectrum positioning plays in deciding elections — and then getting where voters actually are on issues that resonate with them wrong, once again, even to the point of getting it backwards."



(Salon, sheeesh, if you can't afford an editor, why not crowdsource it?)

Particularly tragic as this article long-windedly vindicates what I and many others actually SAID in 1984, which was to the effect that if voters were offered a choice between Conservative and pseudo-Conservative, they'd go for the genuine article every time.

wearily,
Bright