“It’s not as if we didn’t see some of this coming,” said Barack Obama, a note of bleak humour in his voice. “I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!”
The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned. “I did,” Obama added. “You can run the tape.”
Now Obama is back on the campaign trail, for Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. It gives him a platform to deliver an alternative State of the Union address. And the gloves are off.
To hear the expectant buzz of the 7,000-plus crowd in Norfolk as candidate Abigail Spanberger promised that Obama’s entrance was just moments away was to be reminded that Democrats did once have a president who could match Trump’s superstar charisma.
It’s been shit so long people don’t understand what their literal ancestors had.
Like, Gen Z was born when Clinton was in office, Alpha when Obama was.
They don’t even really remember it because they were kids, just the memory that people said he was either progressive or a commie muslim.
But right now we’re not stuck with shit.
The DNC is throwing Biden/Kamal’s whole war hest back to state parties for use in midterms, and that will generate more candidates in primaries because more generals are winnable.
And competitive primaries help Dem turnout in the general, coupled with republicans shitting the bed and we’re likely to see a progressive, not just blue, wave in midterms. Then another along with a progressive presidential.
It doesn’t happen often, not in most of our lifetimes really, but now we actually do need to build party unity.
Billionaires and their remaining puppets are going to put a lot of time and money into depressing interest until after primaries.