Let’s see this in the context of Rahm Emanuel’s most famous political advice: Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And there is no crisis quite as serious as the crisis Democrats now face.
And what precisely is the root of that crisis? Tara Palmeri puts her finger on a large part of it — how Democrats have lost touch with actual Americans by living in an Academia bubble:
It sounds like an episode from Veep but the Democrats are struggling with how to sound like real people. “It’s one of the biggest problems we face” @RepJasonCrow told me. pic.twitter.com/xAt7dmsYye
— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) March 11, 2025
Authenticity, baby. It’s the key to politics. Once you can fake that, you’re golden! (With apologies to Samuel Goldwyn, or Groucho Marx, or Celeste Holm. Take your pick. I’ll go with Celeste Holm, just because that would be hilarious.)
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