Sarah Longwell

Even prominent Republicans like Governor Mike DeWine publicly called it deeply troubling.

And Sarah Longwell ran a focus group of dedicated Trump voters, and she found that they were completely repulsed by the ad.

Even if they don't cross the aisle to vote for Acton, they might just leave the governor's box blank out of pure disgust.

Right.

You were on the Hassan side of this.

But there has been, you know, whether it's from your colleague, Sarah Longwell, or from Neera Tanden, there have been a lot of centrist Democrats who, who have spent a lot of time talking and concern trolling over Hassan Piker.

And so those of us on the left look at this and are like, why are you fixating on this Twitch streamer right now? Again, how is this helping Democrats win? You're doing the Republicans job for them.

Why not instead focus on what a piece of shit Mike Rogers is and how he's been for the Iran war for years and years and how corrupt he is.

He thinks he's a James Bond villain.

He's going to strap Tim Miller and JVL and Sarah Longwell and Sam Stein down on big metal tables with laser beams slowly working their way up from the bottom of the table and he's going to cut them in half.

And then he's going to have Kara Swisher on another table, you know, with one of these unnecessarily laborious, drawn-out, Bond-filling killings of James Bond that never seemed to come to fruition because it had like a 30-minute time window.

But whatever, man.

It was kind of started by Andrew Cuomo, but it's been glommed onto by now everyone in the book and the Democratic establishment, at least in the right flank of the Democratic establishment.

You know, we've talked a lot about the bulwark, people like Sarah Longwell and their fixation with Hassan Piker.

But again, nobody suffers from Hassan derangement syndrome worse than Piker.

And Hutch is probably one of the most loyal soldiers, kind of a minion, a goon of Destiny on the internet.

He's a loser.

it's just an endurance test with a bad faith actor

and my thing is like i'm a coalition builder am i am i a fan of everything every person on the center left does no but i'm like i i think in order to win majorities you have to have a majority coalition and so but the thing i don't like about these people is that they seem to me to be very small-minded like they think that if they they think attacking other people because they disagree is how you win and i don't think that's the case in fact like i think i i want to be able to be in a party where we can uplift people like sarah longwell which i guys i know you guys have a disagreements with but i think we need everyone from sarah longwell to you guys, to Kyle, to Hassan, and everyone in between, because I think that is truly how you build a strong coalition.

Now, that's why I love primaries, because that's where you fucking fight it out.

But like, the you know as you say adam it's a confluence of a number of different factors so candidate quality dem seem to be pretty good they get how to fight back against trump now a mere eight years later they've figured it out yeah they need a fighter they need someone who's robust not talking about culture war issues talking about kitchen table issues right need to fight against corruption need to fight against you know cost of living all that sort of stuff right the farmers are not happy to pick big faces comments in the chat yeah as we talked about diesel is super expensive tariffs have really fucked The export markets for a lot of these industries.

Trump's approval rating has crossed what Sarah Longwell at the Bulwark calls the Bush line.

The absolute, you know, sort of the bottom of George W. Bush's approval when he left office after starting two unpopular wars.

Being eight years into an absolute shit show, heading into the GFC, all that sort of stuff.

Hello, everyone.

This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark.

Sarah.

My guy.

Happy

Okay, I have notices for myself to tell people.

We are going to go live on Sunday, November 1st, for Bulwark Plus members to talk about all the election stuff.

You, me, Tim, Sarah.