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THIS. Really the saving grace was that precisely because so few of the middle-aged+older passionate volunteers who organized to rebuild participatory politics in place after place from 2017-19 are on Twitter— they had no idea the #online Left was making fun of them the whole time https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1309177410747863044
So they just went ahead and did the work. Knocked doors, organized protests, turned PTO skills into state rep campaigns; wove networks of political action. The same networks we are now relying to hold the suburbs, in the face of massive disinfo campaigns https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1175909172577284097
I had never even heard the term Resistance Wine Mom until like year ago & the condescension knocked me cold. I was like, you have no idea who the people you think you are mocking really are. & no clue about how much they've done https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1309178920537911301
Biden up by 18 among suburban women in PA *despite* looting/riot/flames on loop on Fox & Q-adjacent SaveTheChildren bait flooding Fb wasn't foreordained. It's the result of vast infrastructural labor that built networks for trusted outreach fr near scratch https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-tight-race-in-ohio-biden-tops-trump-in-nevada-and-pennsylvania
I did an update thread in Jan about what various grassroots newcomers I'd written about since 2017 are up to. I should update now: it'd put some of "Where's the Dem ground game?" handwringing to rest. They are out there, working 24/7 to connect every voter https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1218006889964941312
Addndum: I was talking to a great journalist last week & said something offhand about how of course if Trump manages to be re-elected, the post-2016 grassroots will double down on activism @ every level of elections. The reporter was surprised; I was surprised they were surprised
