Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The American right has grown so corrosively hostile to virtue that the kind of moral messaging for kids that we used to consider so unobjectionable as to be borderline banal is now read as a kind of personal attack.

The slightly depressing thing is that even in like the 40s, 50s, 60s, when American society was objectively way more racist, all the themes that provoke grumbling about “wokeness” now were there; you just didn’t have many people willing to openly argue that basic decency is a bad, partisan message.

Sweet, thank you!

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I didn't know where to find it, but the translation I got is sufficient, thanks all!

Vielen danke!

Can you please translate in English what he said? I don't speak German and cannot find a transcript of his reaction to Vance.

And by continually trying to solve the “concerns” that are produced by the right-wing information ecosystem they ultimately promote the right’s worldview and strengthen it. All because they refuse to play the real game, or even recognize that it is being played.

And what’s inevitably happened is that Dems just end up living in the right’s reality - a country where crime is out of control (it’s low), the economy is bad when Democrats are in charge (it’s very strong), and immigrants make the country unlivable (they aren’t).

Look, not to mince words, but Dems are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for this style of politics. They’ve spent decades openly contemptuous of the idea that media matters, that propaganda matters, that the internet matters. In their head it’s still “Americans have concerns, we fix them, we get votes.”

In this new world it’s really critical to control or influence as many large platforms and informational sources as possible. If you don’t and the other side does, they’ll show millions of people things that convince them their own conception of reality is correct.

The political paradigm we live in now is one where different political forces are competing to promote their entire view of the world, right down to “what are the biggest issues in the country? what is wrong with America?”

Basic questions like which problems even exist are contested.

Here's a link. Its results align with my thinking on what "majorities support mass deportation" mean (that majorities don't actually support the kind of police state tactics required for mass deportations, they just think the "bad hombres" should be removed). publicconsultation.org/ss-immigrati...