Category Archives: Democrats

Republican Kidnappers

Posted on June 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

This is a good ad, but we now need so many more actual Democratic officials to make the point this viscerally–no faux outrage:

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The Popularist Pollsters Do Not Understand That You Need to Make an Argument

Posted on June 18, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Brian Beutler makes a very good point about the current crop of Democratic advisors: Yes, media has changed in the ensuing years, but so too have Democrats. They have lost all confidence in their ability to persuade the masses of … Continue reading →

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The ‘Popularist Pollsters’ Got It Wrong on Immigration

Posted on June 17, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

And why that matters. The last couple of weeks have made it clear that the current professional Democrat strategy of ‘popularism’, which is to say, poll-driven politics failed, at least when it comes to immigration. Yes, people, when asked about … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Democratic Pollsters

Posted on May 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the last couple of weeks, the Democratic House Majority Fund declared that the party should stay away from invective, like referring to the proposed Republican budget as “the MAGA Murder Budget.” Leaving aside whether using the phrase MAGA Murder … Continue reading →

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Will Democrats Fight for Science Funding? And Some Thoughts About Primaries

Posted on May 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Unclear, according to Josh Marshall (boldface mine): I know there’s been a push from biomedical researchers and, for lack of a better word, Team Science over at the NIH to have members come over to the building and meet with … Continue reading →

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The Name of the Game Is Rallying Your Base and Discouraging Theirs

Posted on April 22, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or at least seventy percent of the game (boldface mine): Our estimate is that the voters who voted in the 2025 Supreme Court election backed Kamala Harris by 7 points in 2024. In other words, roughly 70% of Susan Crawford’s … Continue reading →

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The Centrist Competency Con: The Andrew Cuomo Edition

Posted on April 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the myths that centrist Democrats capitalize on is the idea that they are competent, problem solvers. Of course, the reality is quite different, as this summary of NYC Democratic mayoral candidate and serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo’s record … Continue reading →

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Will Democrats in 2029 Be Up to the Job?

Posted on March 31, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ll have to flesh this out some at a later date, but Brian Beutler gets at a very important point in a review of the ‘abundance agenda’* (boldface mine): This is, at best, only hinted at in Abundance. The book … Continue reading →

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45 Years Later

Posted on February 11, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Assuming we still have free and fair elections, Rep. Nancy Pelosi has a challenger (boldface mine): “I respect what Nancy Pelosi has accomplished in her career, but we are living in a totally different America than the one she knew … Continue reading →

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Senator Warren Has Questions for Kennedy about Vaccination

Posted on January 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

And they’re very good (boldface mine): 1. At a 2022 anti-vaccination rally, you compared the Covid-19 mandates in Washington D.C. to the tragedies of the Holocaust stating, “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could … Continue reading →

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