Spends an entire lifetime as a rightwing, establishment enforcing chud. Spends six months pretending none of that ever happened so that he can become a senator with zero relevant experience. ‘I believe him.’
When Platner observed, “we live in a political system that is not built for normal people”, the implication was that he is a normal person, which the shenanigans of recent months have comprehensively disproved.
Even if you don’t think Platner is a normal person, you can’t deny that he appealed to a lot of normal people. But then, maybe “normal” just isn’t a useful adjective. I don’t know. Of course, Platner doesn’t necessarily have to be a normal person himself for the statement to be true. Platner can be abnormal and we can live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It can also be true that liberal elites have a general disdain for “normal” people. Or at least they have disdain for the voters who find uncouth, crass, ill-mannered populists appealing. Whether or not those voters are “normal” is a matter of debate, I suppose. But if they’re not normal, who is? And even if the populists aren’t “normal,” they still exist. In the millions. Ignorant, unrefined and problematic they may be, they exist. In this society, with you. What will the liberal elites do about them? They’ve tried snark and condescension, but for some reason it just hasn’t worked.
Lesson learned. Troy Jackson has already taken off all mentions of Gaza from his campaign platforms. Hope it was worth it yall!
Incel meme aside, a lot of the US public really seems to think you can either have a really questionable candidate that agrees with you on some key issue but comes with massive baggage, or a candidate that supports the genocide in Gaza.
As in NY and elsewhere, that this just isn’t true. The establishment Dems don’t want you to know this: you can have both a baggage-free candidate and a candidate that is anti-Israel in the same person.
