Millions of poor people benefited significantly from the ARP. If it hadn’t passed suffering from the pandemic would have skyrocketed. Inflation, to the extent it was influenced by (or can be purported to have been influenced by) the bill’s benefits, was well worth it.
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The president and their party gets blamed for everything no matter if they have control of Congress or not. If you think a 51-49 R senate would be better because the Ds could blame them for gridlock you’re living in a dream world. I would guess a very large minority of people have no clue who controls Congress and they just know that Bidenflation is killling them.
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For a year. As far as I know there were no long-term wins in it.
They seem to hate it and see long term impacts.
I prefer to see what my enemies think of something before forming an opinion on it.
I have to question your reading comprehension if that article made you think a bunch of that stuff is going to stick long-term. Lots of “ifs” in there, and we’re over a year out already.
Regardless of the apparently unknown long term impacts, the immediate impact was a life preserver to millions drowning to death. This all feels like so much quibbling.
Yup, no chance. Even if he somehow gets more votes, I’m not sure that will do it. But he won’t.
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It looks like Walker is getting the Roy Moore treatment. Some Rs just can’t bring themselves to do it. And they will vote for nearly anybody.
Dems should just pile on the personal attacks and ignore policy in going after Walker.
Yeah, I mean it’s not like Walker is even capable of forming policy positions?
I’m too lazy to look it up, but is there going to be a Warnock vs Walker debate? That would be something.
That’s tough debate prep. You don’t know which of Walker’s personalities will show up, so you have to be ready for all of them.
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It doesn’t help his cause that he’s black. Republican voters are primed to think the worst of him.
Agreed. I have been saying that from the beginning.
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I actually think the opposite.
Republicans love minorities who go along with their white nationalist agenda.
True, but not as much as whites that go along with their white nationalist agenda.
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It’s a thin edge. Yes, they like to have a One Black Friend to prove they’re not racist. But they are, in fact, deeply racist. So the One Black Friend position is very risky and tenuous.
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The answer is all of the above.
They love having a minority individual who advocates for their position, as they feel it delegitimizes the fundamental progressive arguments about structural discrimination.
However, the moment the minority advocate falters in some way, the right will turn their patronizing approval into scorn and hatred instantly.
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Fetterman is just about the perfect candidate for Pennsylvania, and Oz is a bad candidate. Same probably goes for Warnock and Walker. I don’t think Oz and Walker are like the nut low, but they’re bad enough to open the door.
That on top of Dem motivation being way up because of the Dobbs ruling, and we’ll see.
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