JTarrou
4d ago
I don't know enough about state politics there to have a good opinion. Single party states are always wildly corrupt and it damages the party in power. Talarico strikes me as deeply weird with a raft of opinions that would make him absolutely toxic to anyone with real religion, plus a carpetbagging "How do you do fellow Bar-B-Q enjoyers?" that seems very inauthentic as a presentation. I don't trust polling to be within forty points of the election. I don't trust someone of Paxton's "moral character" to not have some dodgy electioneering strategy. Uneducated guess, Talarico goes the way of Beto and we never hear from him again. Paxton is indicted a few years after winning.
JTarrou
6d ago
So sure, not everyone in the AfD is a fascist, but everyone in the AfD is someone who is fine with being in the same party as fascists.
Not everyone in respectable left-of-center politics is a communist, but they all are fine with being in the same party/coalition/movement with communists. Is there any principled reason center-right parties have a special duty to ostracize their LARP wing, while the center-left does not?
JTarrou
6d ago
Ken Paxton isn't a nationally important race, he has other baggage, and it's Texas. If he were up for the presidency, he'd be Hitler Hisself. Nearly all politicians are adulterers who take bribes, you might as well call just him a politician.
JTarrou
6d ago
"We called every Republican a Nazi and Hitler Hisself for a century, but Eisenhower was a difficult lift because he just kinda....beat Hitler and Nazism so we left that particular slander to our pet commies" isn't the defense of establishment liberalism you want to pin your hat on.
Pre-Trump, pre-Me Too, back when the Dems controlled all messaging and could win an election based on lying about someone's taxes rather than their rape record.
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