Brian Schatz is a progressive senator from Hawaii. Yesterday Politico Magazine published an interview with him in which Schatz offers his take on what went wrong for the Democratic Party in 2024. The senator broke his views into three basic categories: the information space, left-right calibration, and language. Let’s start with his take on the information space:
…a lot of liberal donors believe if we just fund good journalism, that that’s a counterweight to the right-wing noise machine. And I think that we’ve now learned that we have to build our own infrastructure, and that’s going to take money and staffing and all of that.
I think this is absolute nonsense, though I’m happy to see Democrats bleed their donors dry to create a left-wing Joe Rogan. That’s the shorthand they usually use for the kind of “infrastructure” they have in mind. They want a…
