U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

“Excuse me?” is a quality December thread title but other possibilities are strong too

"US Politics needs to be more entertaining"

Or, "They're now the working class party, man."

Sherrod Brown dripping with sarcasm when asked if GOP senators will support paid leave for rail workers.

“They’re now the working class party, man. Marco Rubio’s a populist, they’re there man, they want help workers. They’re the Trotskyite party.”

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 30, 2022

Maaaaaaaaaaaan

i could see post-trump republicans running into some of the same shoals as the tories in the uk, where you’ve got a new coalition of working class votes that you’ve purchased with xenophobia and culture wars, but eventually these voters will ask where’s the beef

December thread?

December 2022: Xenophobic working class warriors seek their beef

if that's the thread title, let's do it

US Politics, December 2022: "They're now the working class party, man."

I know Sherrod Brown is being sarcastic up there, but American political media and thus American political/electoral understanding is so deliberately terrible that even basic terminology doesn’t mean anything. They’re all words with various associated vibes that get tossed around, actual definition or context be damned