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If Democrats Can Tell the Right Story, They’ll Keep Winning (newrepublic.com)
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For Arendt, facts and opinions, “though they must be kept apart, are not antagonistic to each other; they belong to the same realm.” A fact (her example is Germany’s invasion of Belgium in August 1914) “acquires political implications only by being put in an interpretative context.” Whoever reports what happened, she wrote, “always tells a story, and in this story the particular facts lose their contingency and acquire some humanly comprehensible meaning.”

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That is what Arendt meant when she argued that organizing people together to change the world—that is to say, doing politics—requires an approach that rejects outright lying while also avoiding a complacent expectation that “the truth” will reveal itself for voters to follow. The narrative wars have begun. If Democrats are smart, they’ll opt for storytelling instead.

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Gas prices were an important factor, but not nearly the only one. He betrayed nearly every one of the demographic groups that MAGA carefully recruited so effectively, it was like he was trying to hurt them.

He swore no new wars, then started the stupidest war in history, led by the stupidest leader in history. This one also betrayed the young men who voted for him, who will now have to be the ones to die in that stupid war.

He betrayed the Epstein Files Voters, who were sure he was going to expose all the pervy Dems, only to find out they were all pervy MAGAs, including Trump.

MAGA fully supports total unregulated data centers, which 85% of the country opposes.

He even betrayed Farmers, again, with his tariffs, AND his diesel prices.

And he betrayed the rank & file MAGA supporters by doing everything he could to raise, rather than lower prices.

Then there is the breath-taking open corruption that EVERYONE can see.

And a million other betrayals, and exploitations, and lies, and crimes, etc.

If gas prices had been under $3, we still would have had the same election. The American people have had their fill of MAGA.

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