The GOP spent 40 years building a Big Tent Coalition. Their message was simple - if you share some of our values, you’re one of us.

The Dems have spent the past 10 years building a Shrinking Tent. Their message is now simple - unless you share every single value, down to a specific level of support for each community, you’re not one of us.

And look who’s winning.

Ding ding ding

One day I looked at the Everytown for Gun Safety placard in my window and realized, this is the problem too, we need to yield some battles to not cede the war.

But that was when there was still hope for that

Oh thank god I was afraid some more kids might not get talked into suicide by a fucking server

I wrote a very fiery letter that I’m sure a bot deleted about how it cheapened the phrase “violence” to have it be slung casually around at speech their shareholders don’t love.

They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they’re trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.

Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been “far left” a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.