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Perry Bacon
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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.

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Not just pundits/media, as the piece I linked showed. Lots of prominent powerful folks within the Democratic Party.

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Very kind. Thanks.

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I learned a lot from you about this subject. So maybe I should re-write my piece after your talk. (I obviously am not allowed to do that, but you get the idea.)

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Based on my conversations with people in PA, I also want to know what is the fracking of Pennsylvania (an issue of outsized importance to that particular state). I am not sure that issue is actually fracking.

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This is a great point. The people in the 7 states that are campaigned in aren't getting real, specific attention either.

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"The MAGA brand of fascism has brought a variety of morbid symptoms to this political interregnum. Unfortunately, Harris is working to co-opt, rather than combat, the impulses that animate those symptoms."

On Cats, Fascism and The Moral Clarity We Need
On Cats, Fascism and The Moral Clarity We Need

"Harris could not condemn what she aims to mold and weaponize for her own purposes."

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Just because I hear this a lot, do those people really mean they oppose/are wary of "partisan politics?" In America today, politics happens through the parties so being non-partisan often means you are ineffective. But when hear "I hate politics," I don't think people mean MLK.

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"It is not the distance between these two candidates that we should worry about, but the radically undemocratic goal that one candidate is coalescing his party around. It is hard to see how American democracy can benefit from finding the so-called middle ground between these two positions."

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Perry Bacon
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Government, policy and elections writer. Views are my own. perry.bacon@washpost.com
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