I think if Chi hadnt dropped his membership to play "smart politics" then people would be willing to try. Half the reason people ran thru walls for Z was his cadre status. There's many elections to run and so much governing work to do that trying to run with an unreliable cadre seems a bit much?

2020 was unprocessed trauama and 2024 was a trauma response because inflation was the most concrete and persistent reminder of 2020.

I think thats def part of it. Each sold an impossible bill of contradictory policies that when delivered satisfied no one and angered everyone.

Its the kind of comment that the median low info voter says on their own all the time. They hate the hen parties too I'm sure.

Update: contract just got settled!

Yeah that fight is getting nasty. I will let my folks know see if we cant torpedo this

Have been looking for this for a minute. Thank you!

Tel me more!

This includes Zman who is a charismatic movement builder and a C tier legislator

Happy to spill further tea over DMs, but shes the only dsa legislator who understands how to log roll, horse trade, or easily secure labors support. The others make a ton of unforced errors pretty regularly

Julia is a well honed machine for life in a legislative chamber. Just the sharpest DSA elected in terms of actually making legislation go. Everywhere else her various personality disorders are a problem, but she's inexplicably a perfect legislating machine when in chamber.

I think it does. 13 and this one are big chomps.

Halos bruh. You're doing it wrong!

But not with the voters that would power a Tisch over Mamdani victory. I know we're intellectuals and we wanna overthink this, but Garcia wasn't ugly, Tisch is actively ugly. That's REALLY IMPORTANT in the age of short form video. Especially when your name rec is low and you have ties to Trump.

Kathryn Garcia is not a black hole on video and Tisch wont be running in a low turnout primary where nobody knows how to vote an RCV list.

He was a man and the electorate was verrrry different.