• return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    Instead of thinking of better ways to play up policy achievements, he argues, Democrats rely too much on depicting former President Donald Trump as a crook.

    “It’s almost like Democrats are doing this purity test. America is not pure. The people of America are not pure. We’re flawed,” he said. “I’m not looking for my politicians to be pure, … I’m looking for my politicians to be effective.”

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      11 months ago

      “It’s almost like Democrats are doing this purity test.

      It’s because they’re all old. This is the way politics was done in the '90s. Either they don’t know/can’t see things have changed, or they don’t care.

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      11 months ago

      And then later on he says that Trump sent checks and that was impactful. Biden did the same but he argued Biden didn’t play it up the same way. So he doesn’t actually care about effectiveness because both had the same effect.