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We Won. Don’t Fuck It Up.
We handed Democrats both chambers. This is not a time for bipartisanship. Use the power or blow it… again.
On Tuesday night, we did what the Democratic leadership spent two years refusing to do, which is to pick a side. We took both chambers of Congress in a blue wave that ran straight through Texas and South Carolina and Kansas and Maine.
Winning is the easy part and everybody loves a wave, but let’s be clear about what we didn’t hand them. We didn’t hand them a mandate for bipartisanship. We didn’t vote to split the difference with the people who just lost, or to negotiate the wish list down to something Republicans can live with, or to be kind and understandable about it, so fuck that whole idea and fuck anyone waiting around for us to be reasonable about power we just won.
We tried kind.
We tried understandable.
We tried going high while the other side went low.
This time, seriously, we go even lower, and I mean lower as in we stop pulling punches and we actually get shit done, because that’s the assignment, and everything else is how you fuck it up.
So what happens now, in order. The first test comes fast, the week of November 9, when Thomas Massie forces his privileged…
