That should be ex.
But on to the show. What would make anyone think this is a demonic cult?
Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who lost by 20 points to Republican Tommy Tuberville last week, blamed getting tied to GOP “catch-phrases” as the reason red- and purple-state Democrats took a beating.
“We’re not some demonic cult like we’re portrayed to be,” said Jones. “I was fighting the same battle that Jaime Harrison was fighting, that Mike Espy was fighting, that Cal Cunningham was fighting, that Steve Bullock was fighting. And Democrats have not been able to fully counter the Republican narrative.”
We’re not some demonic cult. We’re a Satanic cult. This is like the time the media fact checked claims that Biden had eulogized a KKK Grand Wizard, but a KKK Exalted Cyclops.
So much better.
Steve Hill ran in a Democrat State Senate primary as the first Satanist to seek public office. While he lost, the Satanist and Bernie Sanders supporter was able to secure over 10,000 votes from California Democrats. Since then, Hill has participated in a Black Lives Matter rally and one comment noted the “solidarity between Black Lives Matter and Satanists.”
Hill had mentioned reaching out to the Sanders campaign, but was cautious, noting, “I don’t know how they’ll react to getting an offer of help from Satan.”
While the Sanders campaign’s response remains unclear, the American Humanist Association’s Freethought Equality Fund PAC did back Hill alongside establishment Democrat figures like Rep. Hank Johnson, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal. None of them were asked by the media how they felt about the backing of a PAC that was also supporting a Satanist.
Also…
The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pushed Me To Join The Satanic Temple – The Huffington Post
GOP catch phrases? Please.
Republicans were late to the party running against police defunding and did so ineptly. If this hadn’t been an inept campaign, Democrats would have been nailed hard for turning cities into war zones, trying to quadruple the price of energy, chemically castrating 8-year-old boys, and trying to abolish private health insurance.
Democrats went radical and they only lightly paid the political price for it.
All this comes from the top down. Rep. Clyburn was notoriously trying to block his party from going full crazy for political reasons.
“Well, it happened simply because we were not able to discipline ourselves,” Clyburn told “Axios on HBO.”
“We keep making that mistake. This foolishness about, ‘You got to be this progressive or that progressive,'” he added.
“That phrase — ‘defund the police’ — cost Jaime Harrison tremendously,” Clyburn said of the Democratic Senate candidate who failed to unseat Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham South Carolina.
“Stop sloganeering,” he said. “Sloganeering kills people. Sloganeering destroys movements. Stop sloganeering. And let’s go about the business of representing people and building hopes and aspirations for people.”
Note. Clyburn isn’t saying this stuff is a bad idea. He’s saying the slogan is bad politics. That’s what you tend to hear from Democrats.
Police defunding particularly rankles because it was the big ask of Black Lives Matter. Democrats went for it, assuming that there was some plan here, and that it didn’t actually mean replacing police with social workers, and no longer prosecuting most crimes, including rape.
But it turned out that’s exactly what it meant. (Most Americans still don’t realize this. If Republicans weren’t inept at messaging, maybe they would.)
Democrats ran away from police defunding in no small part because there was no plan and what there was in the way of a plan was unpopular and insane.
What Clyburn’s really saying is have a plan, then sell it to moderates, don’t deploy a virtue signaling slogan when you have no plan. Be radicals, but be smart about it.
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