Though honestly, who can forget how the dominant paradigm was forever subverted by the "let that sink in" post?

2) As I tried to say in the story, WFP is using this outrage to do some broader movement-building, recruiting volunteers and down-ballot hopefuls for the races between now and then while also laying groundwork for a '28 challenge. So it's not either/or for them I don't think.

1) w/r/t Manchin there are numerous policy differences (Fetterman didn't hamstrung Dems when they had the majority like Manchin did). But I think politically the difference is the feeling of betrayal: Fetterman spent years building a brand as a progressive warrior, and people bought into it, hard.

"Democrats still don’t have a leader to guide them out of the wilderness."

Yo, the Israelites HAD leaders and it still took them 40 years.