{"id":117,"date":"2025-11-07T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:25:23","slug":"clarifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/clarifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats had a great election day in virtually every race last Tuesday, but there has still been a lot of talk about what this means for Democrats and the Left going forward. Josh Marshall <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/a-few-day-after-the-election-thoughts\">clarifies the strategy perfectly<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; width: 730px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px 15px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: 'Roboto Serif', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px;\">A number of morning-after reviews I\u2019ve seen say that the Democrats had had a great night but still hadn\u2019t addressed their \u201ccivil war\u201d \u2014 the battle over whether to run \u201cmoderates\u201d or \u201cprogressives.\u201d Is it a future of Spanbergers or Mamdanis?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; width: 730px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px 15px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: 'Roboto Serif', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px;\">That doesn\u2019t seem quite right to me. They have a pretty good model: find candidates suited to their constituencies and focus on cost of living issues and opposition to Donald Trump\u2019s autocracy. Full stop. It\u2019s not more complicated than that. That\u2019s your opposition message.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; width: 730px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px 15px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: 'Roboto Serif', Georgia, 'Droid Serif', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px;\">Focus. Keep it simple. Stay woke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats had a great election day in virtually every race last Tuesday, but there has still been a lot of talk about what this means for Democrats and the Left going forward. Josh Marshall clarifies the strategy perfectly:\u00a0 A number of morning-after reviews I\u2019ve seen say that the Democrats had had a great night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-coup","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}