When I was in college- actually, yeah, when I was in college, I interned one summer in Chuck Schumer's office. But you know, more metaphorically, I come from the internet. There you go, right, so Greenwich Village. I guess, literally, I came from New York City. So funny, because through the podcast I've picked up on little tidbits of your history, but I think this is just an awesome time for us to just hear who you are and where you came from. Real honor getting to spend some time with you. Republicans can and will regroup.We're here today with Matt Yglesias, who is one of my favorite journalists of all time and recently wrote a piece on nuclear that grabbed our attention.
So even though Republicans right now have little power in statewide office, or in either chamber of the Legislature, Democrats should not breathe easy. And the success of Democrats, at the statewide level, can’t just be attributed to voters changing, but to the fact that Republicans are split into factions, the most active and engaged of which are extreme.
But the far right has become the activist wing of the Republican Party in Michigan. Republicans have failed to adequately meet popular opinion on abortion, and “they were punished for that at the ballot box in November,” Hemond said. There’s a Bigger Threat Than the Proud BoysĪ lot could happen before 2024 elections.
We Tried to Figure Out if Anyone Has Ever Been Sued More Than Donald Trumpĭisney Has a Secret. Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone Hemond referenced the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, usually a solidly Republican group, that recently went full far-right, doubling down on “anti-wokeness” and wanting “to talk about a stolen election and all of that sort of nonsense,” Hemond said. Fierce campaigns against certain books are not going anywhere. And while their success so far is a “mixed bag,” according to Adrian Hemond, CEO of the Michigan consulting firm Grassroots Midwest, fights over education were a pillar of Republican midterm campaigns. In other words, local school boards have become a place where far-right activists have been able to seize some power.
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