Would you rather “be right”, in the sense of your rhetorical and applied framing, or have Harris win the election?
You have to pick. Because you won the argument on how to approach the issue, at least for period of almost all of the period of 2024 that mattered. The world agreed with you. Your world view was precisely how almost all talking heads on addressed the issue. That voters needed to get over it. That voters needed to “vote strategically”.
But it lost us the election. You won the round to lose the match. The hubris is you blaming anyone but yourself.
You have a choice. You can continue to “be right”, in your mind, about how to approach rhetoric and electoralism, but you will not win elections.
Alternatively, you can change your mind, and reproach your strategy in terms of what it takes to win elections, both in rhetoric and approach to electoralism.
Would you rather “be right”, in the sense of your rhetorical and applied framing, or have Harris win the election?
You have to pick. Because you won the argument on how to approach the issue, at least for period of almost all of the period of 2024 that mattered. The world agreed with you. Your world view was precisely how almost all talking heads on addressed the issue. That voters needed to get over it. That voters needed to “vote strategically”.
But it lost us the election. You won the round to lose the match. The hubris is you blaming anyone but yourself.
You have a choice. You can continue to “be right”, in your mind, about how to approach rhetoric and electoralism, but you will not win elections.
Alternatively, you can change your mind, and reproach your strategy in terms of what it takes to win elections, both in rhetoric and approach to electoralism.
You can’t have both. You have to decide.