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which I don& #39;t even have time to rant about. Several thousand words on current electoral shifts w no mention of anyone shaping politics today other than politicians? Amid just a mass of voters who are like, inert oatmeal, pulled by gravity?" title="The mirror image is this kind of piecehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> which I don& #39;t even have time to rant about. Several thousand words on current electoral shifts w no mention of anyone shaping politics today other than politicians? Amid just a mass of voters who are like, inert oatmeal, pulled by gravity?" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Eg, what kept media coverage of Kenosha from upending the presidential race? Axios says luck. Weigel says nimble Biden campaign. I say both are ignoring the crucial prior infrastructure-building that has reshaped communication landscapes, in suburbs esp. https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1316411362688540673">https://twitter.com/daveweige...
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Talk about burying the lede! "Bell has become involved with a group of Democratic women in her county â & #39;they call us angry housewives& #39;â". Gotta read all the way to Paragraph 19 to realize you& #39;re seeing the impact of local, intentional political action. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-women-trump-biden/2020/09/12/6764b89a-f167-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...
Must-read from @panaritism shows exactly how that local, intentional political action has built & is now poised to transform state politics. It only looks inevitable in retrospect. You need to carve the landscape to make water+gravity into a river. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/election-suburban-women-trump-pennsylvania-turnpablue-represent-maria-panaritis-20201015.html">https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/e...
Meanwhile on the other side of the state: a deep dive on some of the people fighting to turn non-metro SWPA purple. Again: non-politicians dedicating their time, talent & treasure to remake the political terrain https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/route-22-battle-royale-murrysville-area-serves-as-ground-zero-for-biden-trump-supporters/?slug">https://triblive.com/local/wes...
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. @llerer captures examples from the Ohio suburbs, but the hyperlocal new-since-2016 grassroots political groups she& #39;s glimpsing there have counterparts in the vast majority of similar communities all across the country. We pulled together data & maps here: https://www.americancommunities.org/grassroots-blossom-across-america-reshaping-countrys-political-geography/">https://www.americancommunities.org/grassroot...
Although nationally the bulk of such groups are in Big City & Urban Suburb counties, in swing states they are spread evenly across Rural, Exurban, ex-industrial/Middle Suburb, Graying America & College Town counties. Appropriately, their goals & allies vary w/ their surroundings
Wow: speaking of pop-up grassroots democracy groups in swing-state Rural Middle America counties ( @AmCommPro), https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Augen">this just in from Franklin County PA. New grassroots women& #39;s group with ~600 members meeting weekly THIS IS A BIG DEAL https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/election_2020/pennsylvania/republican-democratic-women-unify-for-biden-harris/article_1294ede8-ee05-5202-843b-c735d7d1649c.html">https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/elec...
In our article we used the # of listings submitted to the Indivisible portal in 2017-18 as a rough indicator of the intensity of grassroots activism. See below some of the regions usually colored red on maps where those indicators were high. Don& #39;t sleep on rural local organizing!
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You know what I think about as each of these stories rolls in? I think about the incomprehension/condescension these women faced from male Dem electeds & insiders in 2017 & 2018, captured perfectly here by @campbellnyt (& I saw first hand again & again): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/democratic-women-campaigning.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/1...
ââI donât like this president & Iâm mad as hell & Iâm going to put some knockers on people& #39;s doors &come home & feel good about myselfââis that really going to accomplish something?â
Um: yes? Literally you have just described exactly how transformative political movements happen?
Um: yes? Literally you have just described exactly how transformative political movements happen?
