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Luntz on language that

artappraiser — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:39:14 +0000

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Luntz on language that resonates with voters – "People want common sense candidates, not centrist or mainstream; less politics, less partisanship and more common sense" https://t.co/NF5CSGBz5a pic.twitter.com/Krc9Iq6KAK
— Michael Piccorossi (@mpiccorossi) January 19, 2023

America isn’t two warring

artappraiser — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:24:37 +0000

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America isn’t two warring tribes much as the media would have you believe it’s so. https://t.co/ZL5azzlJVQ pic.twitter.com/H8YbbllqYs
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) January 19, 2023

I think a lot of normies

artappraiser — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:33:11 +0000

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I think a lot of normies/centrists see extremism as the "Brokenism" defined here

"The real debate today...is between those invested in our current institutions, and those who want to build anew." https://t.co/61eczquVWG
— Balaji (@balajis) January 4, 2023

The brokenist vs institutionalist divide is tacit, but underpins many debates.

Do you think institutions are irretrievably broken, and we need to build new ones?

Or do you think "I can fix him"?

Each side thinks the other is being naive. pic.twitter.com/ORunyjqvs7
— Balaji (@balajis) January 4, 2023

Vitalik's post adds by drilling into the definition of an institution.

His three categories of institution roughly correspond to left, center, and right respectively.

Progressive regulation, tech innovation, and conservative tradition.https://t.co/OifXnT788r pic.twitter.com/twHus3631m
— Balaji (@balajis) January 4, 2023

For one example, I immediately think of the distrust of the "deep state' by both lefties and righties. That's one infamous one that's far from new.

Also I have already seen sooo many make the comment, including Carville, that the caucus of 20 is nihilist/suicidal, that nothing would make them happier then to see it all torn down. Which would make them anarchists and little different from anarchists on the far left.

"Joe Biden gets it done for

artappraiser — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:24:02 +0000

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"Joe Biden gets it done for working families"

At the end of a historic, productive session of Congress full of bipartisan results, I still have a few bills left to sign.

Take a guess how long it took me to sign a stack of 65 of them. pic.twitter.com/kP1Tc2fV4c
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 29, 2022

I bet the Trump fans will point out they used *French* music

Interesting: the cohort of

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:21:47 +0000

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Interesting: the cohort of long anti-deep-state former Dems, eager to embrace any GOP candidates that come along who profess being gay and of immigrant stock, and regularly appearing on Fox News shows like those run by Sean Hannity:

Glenn Greenwald, who reminds us daily not to trust the FBI, the CIA, or the media, took a serial liar at his word. pic.twitter.com/3mfvOWCe85
— Seth Hettena (@seth_hettena) December 22, 2022

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 01:02:59 +0000

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[....] Mr. Mastriano lost by nearly 15 percentage points to the Democratic candidate, Josh Shapiro — part of a midterm election that saw voters reject every election denier running to oversee elections in a battleground state.

In Arizona, Michigan and Nevada, Republican primary voters nominated candidates campaigning on Mr. Trump’s election lies for secretary of state, the office that in 40 states oversees the election system. In all three, those candidates lost. The rout eased the immediate concern that strident partisans who embraced conspiracy theories about hacked voting machines, foreign meddling and smuggled ballots might soon be empowered to wreak havoc on election systems.

The election results suggest that a focus on Mr. Trump’s election lies did not merely galvanize Democrats but also alienated Republicans and independents. Final turnout figures show registered Republicans cast more ballots than registered Democrats in Arizona and Nevada, but election-denying candidates nevertheless lost important races in each of those states.

Republican candidates in statewide contests who embraced Mr. Trump’s election lies also significantly underperformed compared with Republicans who did not. This was true even in districts that voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Trump in 2020, suggesting that the defection of ticket-splitters like Mr. Mohler likely played a role.

In a survey of voters in five battleground states conducted by the research firm Citizen Data for the advocacy group Protect Democracy, a third who cast ballots for a mix of Democrats and Republicans in November cited a concern that G.O.P. candidates held views or promoted policies “that are dangerous to democracy."

And in a postelection survey conducted by Impact Research, a Democratic polling firm, 69 percent of independents and Republicans who voted for a Democrat for the House said that democracy was critical to their decision [....]

dagblog - Comments for "How the Worst Fears for Democracy Were Averted in 2022"

Luntz on language that

America isn’t two warring

I think a lot of normies

"Joe Biden gets it done for

Interesting: the cohort of

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