- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/opinion/democrats-2028-election-expert.html
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The illustration has no caption but that's gotta be Shaprio, Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer. Right?
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This made me laugh.
Leonhardt: What do you think is the most likely mistake that Democrats would make in 2028?
Thaler: Choosing the candidate that Democrats like best rather than the one who has the best chance to get elected.
Newsom's right hand bothers me. It's like he's waving with the back of his hand. Thank for for coming to my TED Talk.
You don't have to be a dues-paying member to vote in the primaries; literally all you have to do is request a ballot for the Democratic Party. Even a registered Republican can do that, instead of voting in their own party's primary.
Rahm Emanuel, who appears to be running himself,
The Paper of Record, folks, doing a fantastic job of word order.
Now that I'm married to someone who's job title is "Senior Economist" I have less respect for the field of economics than I ever have at any other point in my life. (Sorry if you are reading this, I love you!) When you see how the sausage is made it's just a collection of biases and assumptions dressed up a science. The field will change how the math works to conform to their expectations. Little surprise to me that a Nobel laureate economist is an out of touch moron who wants to drive our country into a ditch
This could actually be an unintentional improvement from the Dems. They tend to assume that "independent voters" are all the perfectly smoothbrained centrists they've been chasing for years but that's not really the case.
Isn't the nobel economics prize even more made up than the Peace prize?
it's not even a nobel
That's what I mean
Nobel Economist has the same weight as Nobel Peace prize recipient, it's just a popularity prize given by the Western Imperialists.
Economics is an actual field of study. The economics that gets you a Nobel prize not so much lmao. Just high priests of the capitalist death cult.
Thaler: Choosing the candidate that Democrats like best rather than the one who has the best chance to get elected.
AHWHAWHAHWHA
this is too good. Who will be the next Brandon?
But Black Dynamite, the candidate I like ALSO has no chance of getting elected.
