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The title of this article should really be understanding Democratic leadership, but I thought the 2 word title sounded pithier.
The picture above is a metaphor for how some might see our politics, two teams exactly the same but in different colors, controlled by players behind the scenes. Poignant right?
Now I was having a conversation with Jonathan Simon in an interview, and he has written extensively about how both sides are not the same. I have pulled a quote from his article below.
“Your bothsidesism may be emotionally convenient and soothing, but it flies in the face of reality — which is that one side has gone all-in with a new religion that has taken as its messiah a paragon of vice who has lied, cheated, stolen, betrayed, reneged, and intimidated his way through life at all stages, and who knows his political survival is completely dependent on setting Americans at each other’s throats.”
And while that is true, and I did vote for Biden and Clinton in 2020 and 2016 respectively, albeit grudgingly. Yet I have never seen anyone other than Democrats do their best to tie their shoes together and one hand behind their back before they fight, even as they swear they are the only hope against an existential threat to democracy.
