Ed Burmila: I guarantee you the conclusion centrists and Carville-esque liberals are going to take from the recent European elections is “OK well we tried but it’s time to throw the immigrants under the bus, there’s no other way to survive.” Some of them have already landed there and the rest are en route.

I guarantee you the conclusion centrists and Carville-esque liberals are going to take from the recent European elections is “OK well we tried but it’s time to throw the immigrants under the bus, there’s no other way to survive.” Some of them have already landed there and the rest are en route.

Someone who I didn't think was progressive but who I assumed was reasonable went full-on "if the right-wing takes over France it's because the ungrateful immigrants tried to destroy the country" and welp.

Trans people were again the canary that they’re gonna just drop every vulnerable population the minute they can

Oh I finally saw who that was and just….ill say this: I’m not surprised

Would you mind sharing? I’m trying to find out but I’m no longer on Twitter

Here you go

Many thanks!

It's just this tweet all the way down.

The funny thing is that Macron and other European center-right leaders did throw immigrants under the bus, & they got/are getting blown out—losing seats not only to the far right but also to the left. There are SO many examples of how pandering to this crap doesn't work.

Cenk Uyger is a giant prick but he did say something very true and that is if you give someone the choice between diet republican and republican, they are just going to choose republican.

He was ripping off Harry S Truman when he said that. Let's not give him too much credit.

"Well, we tried." They never did. They ignore the problem, fail to present counter-arguments to the public, let the right-wing spew hate constantly, and then wonder why the left isn't winning. Pointing at LePen and saying "Bad person!" doesn't accomplish anything. If it were only that easy!

Dem leadership sighing as they once again turn the knob on the machine to "more racist".

Biden simping for the dumbest, most degenerate scum in American society had a very predictable result

Carville hanging up signs that say “It’s the immigrants, stupid”

It's the maple cocaine tweet, it was true

When your movement doesn't have ideological lines in the sand or even a coherent worldview beyond "Me and people like me should be in charge," throwing under the bus anyone whose bus-crushing might help you win is inevitable. The logical end of Popularism isn't/wasn't real hard to figure out.

But also when you don't actually know what's popular and just insist your priors are, which is what they seem to do. Definition of insanity etc

Of course they know what’s popular, it’s what 63 yahoos in a Frank Luntz focus group at an abandoned mall outside Altoona said but kind of didn’t say but maybe sort of said in a 90 minute chat

yeah that's what I mean. Or like, Chuck Schumer has his fictional family that conveniently believes whatever he wants them to.

They've already thrown trans ppl under

It’s the playbook. We hear you, we love you, we support you, oh shit some poll numbers came in, gotta go.

There have been some wins domestically. Labor is strong. Biden was right to pull out of Afghanistan. Immigration has been a D-. Almost a complete adoption of the Trump administration's sadistic ideology and he will be morally responsible for the things Trump does to people he failed to protect

Biden had to pull out of Afghanistan, right? Wasn’t that already set up by his predecessor?

Yea but he at least just kind of toughened through the right wing hissy fit

The person they’re referencing I had blocked a long time ago because some things she said, just ticked some flags in my mind. Turns out i was right she sucks.

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