Banacek 🇵🇱: You've gotta accentuate the positive!

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Yeah. And it won’t happen in part because folks like Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker, etc want an open field in 2028.

This is why the governors are towing the party line. Not because they believe in Joe. Because they believe they're better set up to win in '28.

I like the optimism in the tacit assumption that, should they manage to fuck it up this year, there is going to be an election in '28.

You've gotta accentuate the positive!

There will still be elections if the Trumpists win. Fair ones? No, but they’re not going to stop pretending to be representative

There’s already a model for this in American history, as @jbouie.bsky.social himself has pointed out many times. The Jim Crow South had elections - even competitive ones! Just extremely, uhh, circumscribed

Fine, look, if I could edit posts here I'd amend "an" to "a meaningful", but I can't, so please take it as read.

Yeah I was trying to pick a fight. I do think it’s a meaningful distinction is all (and worth continuing to fight an election even if it’s weighted against you)

Wasnt*

That's a classic distinction without a difference.

You also have to be prepared for reality.

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