I took a look at the "After Party" that Aaron linked. Honestly, if I wasn't so skeptical about the personalities involved, I wouldn't object to a lot of what they're saying here. In light of the idea that the secular left is funding these guys, I found this remark from a French-Chang exchange interesting:
I took a look at the "After Party" that Aaron linked. Honestly, if I wasn't so skeptical about the personalities involved, I wouldn't object to a lot of what they're saying here. In light of the idea that the secular left is funding these guys, I found this remark from a French-Chang exchange interesting:
DAVID FRENCH: We shouldn’t even have to explain this to be honest. But in 2016, many Democrats were quite happy that Donald Trump won the nomination. Some Democrats are already rubbing their hands together in glee at the thought of taking on Trump in 2024. I agree that Trump is easier to beat than any number of other Republican politicians. But what are the consequences of a loss to Donald Trump?
Democrats have been playing with fire. There was a lot of funding that flowed to some very far-right candidates in 2022 who defeated the anti-Trump candidates.
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Reading between the lines, the message to secular Democrats would appear to be, "Take those dollars you've been slipping to MAGA and fund us with them instead."
Of course, if these sorts wanted to ever regain credibility, they would have to punch left sometimes. If the left is now actively buttering their bread (and they're in the business of soliciting even more leftist butter), that would seem to be an increasingly remote possibility.
Let me toss out there, if you want to model what a more credible French or Moore could look like, check out what the American Solidarity Party says on their Twitter:
Now the ASP is certainly to my left and probably the left of most of Aaron's readership -- their economic ideas are wacky, they're soft on crime and too inclined to imitate the Democrats on race.
BUT they punch left *all the time*. My prima facie take is they try to attack both parties roughly equally. This is not what French and Moore sound like. That's why they have no credibility.
I took a look at the "After Party" that Aaron linked. Honestly, if I wasn't so skeptical about the personalities involved, I wouldn't object to a lot of what they're saying here. In light of the idea that the secular left is funding these guys, I found this remark from a French-Chang exchange interesting:
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https://redeemingbabel.org/dissatisfied-with-the-gop-you-have-three-options/
DAVID FRENCH: We shouldn’t even have to explain this to be honest. But in 2016, many Democrats were quite happy that Donald Trump won the nomination. Some Democrats are already rubbing their hands together in glee at the thought of taking on Trump in 2024. I agree that Trump is easier to beat than any number of other Republican politicians. But what are the consequences of a loss to Donald Trump?
Democrats have been playing with fire. There was a lot of funding that flowed to some very far-right candidates in 2022 who defeated the anti-Trump candidates.
--
Reading between the lines, the message to secular Democrats would appear to be, "Take those dollars you've been slipping to MAGA and fund us with them instead."
Of course, if these sorts wanted to ever regain credibility, they would have to punch left sometimes. If the left is now actively buttering their bread (and they're in the business of soliciting even more leftist butter), that would seem to be an increasingly remote possibility.
Let me toss out there, if you want to model what a more credible French or Moore could look like, check out what the American Solidarity Party says on their Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AmSolidarity
Now the ASP is certainly to my left and probably the left of most of Aaron's readership -- their economic ideas are wacky, they're soft on crime and too inclined to imitate the Democrats on race.
BUT they punch left *all the time*. My prima facie take is they try to attack both parties roughly equally. This is not what French and Moore sound like. That's why they have no credibility.