“I don’t think we can’t work together on pronoun politics. This election did not teach you how damaging that is. I don’t think there’s anything that I can tell you,” Carville said on the Politics War Room podcast on Tuesday…Carville’s comments came after he said last week that the Democratic Party needed to distance themselves from identity politics because their first priority should be to win elections.
And if you don’t retreat from some you lose on all like last year.
The only way to progress on any issue you care about is to win
I hate to break the news, but you can’t win a war by retreating.
Tactical Withdrawal
Let’s be clear, how exactly is throwing trans people into the orphan crushing machine going to hinder the fascists? The damage you are mitigating is to yourself, you’re not retreating with the trans people, you’re using them as human shields.
Just look at WWII and Dunkirk. Those boys needed to stay and fight.
Don’t act like this is the battle of Dunkirk when it’s just more Chamberlain-style nazi appeasement.
Democrats DID retreat from numerous issues. They retreated from immigration. They retreated from Palestine. They retreated from taxing the wealthy. They retreated from healthcare. They retreated from trans people. They retreated from the minimum wage. They retreated from shunning Bush-era war criminals.
Democrats work so hard to “keep their powder dry” that they never end up firing a single fucking shot. They’re not strategic geniuses; they’re just cowards.
Funny how retreating involves throwing a group of people between you and the enemy.