Laire McBaskill, STFU
What Liberals Need To Do Is Shut Up
Dumb liberals are dumb, fine, and they don’t understand the struggles of a rich politician in Missouri, fine, but, dumb liberals don’t work for you and if it’s so important that they shut up then “making dumb liberals like you” should be a concern. You can’t shut them up by yelling at them.
Generally, “centrist” Dems in red states can lecture about winning elections in red states all they want (though such rules do not apply in, you know, blue states) as long as they actually win elections. When they lose them they get to shut up about how it’s everybody else’s fault, particularly when it’s the fault of random voters. It isn’t as if Dem leadership was forcing tough votes on these people all of the time, because Paul and Mitch have been in charge of such things.
I’m no highly paid political consultant, but I suspect that what swing and non-voters want in red states is not a 1995-era centrist Democrat, even if they don’t want full communism like I do. “What voters in the heartland want is best articulated by Richard Cohen and Fred Hiatt” has always been a rather strange approach to politics.
This is a straight up copy and paste from Eschaton who said it best.
FWIW – I do think 2019 is going to be the year of moderates shutting the fuck up. What choice do they have?
“Moderate” Dems may well STFU, but they will not change, money is what drives them and that will not change.