Not quite. They wanted him to bash the left, particularly people were pushing hard for reducing police funding. (A black pro-police figure was very useful.) Once real police reform was dead (by mid 2022), they didn't need him. And once he started bashing Biden on immigration, he was cut off.
Not just pundits/media, as the piece I linked showed. Lots of prominent powerful folks within the Democratic Party.
Not just the media. See the article. Or this one. www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Adams described Biden as "just a plain talk person" and said he had borrowed Bidenâs âblueprintâ to win the contentious Democratic mayoral primary.
Worth recalling how many powerful people and institutions were desperate to elevate a Black Dem who bashed BLM and the left. It was obvious in 2021 that Adams was corrupt and had no real interest in governing. www.politico.com/news/2022/05...
The New York mayor spoke last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee event at the request of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
"Ashley Jardina distinguishes between a politics of racism and white identity. Some white voters who are not opposed to stronger social-welfare policies in general can be manipulated by appeals to the sense that white people as a group are threatened." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The former president and his advisersâ strategy is to make white voters afraidâand they donât care if they have to lie to do it.
Behind a paywall, but a really interesting take. Worth reading in full. www.ettingermentum.news/p/kamala-doe...
September subscriber questions, also covering the VP debate, what a Kamala administration may look like, and who the next Bernie may be.
Flashback to living in New York in the 2010s and occasionally being informed by various liberal and leftist journos that Reihan was actually a really nice guy IRL
the problem with a text based medium is i canât fully express the depth of my contempt for reihan. just a total charlatan who will defend anything up to and including blood libeling immigrants www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wal...
Chris Wallace stepped in to scold a panelist for attempting to change the subject after he defended Trump and Vance spreading a false story about migrants.
Excellent. "If newcomers â whether they cross the border or seek asylum or obtain temporary protected status â are welcome after they are here, why such financial and ideological commitment to a violent apparatus to keep them out in the first place?"
Wrote about something thatâs been bothering me while seeing otherwise well-intentioned defenses of our Haitian neighbors. âHuman beings are significant and full of potential and worthy of love, regardless of the labor they provide or whether their simple existence is considered âlegal.ââ
In his first weekly column, Prem Thakker explains why we must defend newcomers on the basis of humanity alone.