A raft in Hudson Bay
Damn but misogyny is casual sometimes. Ben Mathis-Lilley lets it all hang out at Slate.
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff lost a special House election in Georgia on Tuesday to Republican Karen Handel. It’s the fourth high-profile special election Dems have lost since November. California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the House Democrats. Should she be replaced, as some rabble-rousers are starting to suggest?
Oh yeah, obviously, because the Speaker of the House is to blame when a same-party candidate loses.
Reasons to put Nancy Pelosi on a raft in the Hudson Bay (metaphorically):
Ahhh fuck you, dude. That’s “metaphorically” the way “die in a fire” is metaphorically.
- She’s both unpopular and, for a congressional figure, relativelywell-known. (In other words, most people who have an opinion don’t like Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi, but more people have an opinion on Pelosi than they do on McConnell.)
Might there be a reason for that, that’s not to do with some special Unpopularity Essence that Pelosi has and McConnell doesn’t? Might it be pervasive contemptuous knee-jerk misogyny, which this shitty piece is feeding right into?
It really comes down to the question of whether you think there’s something particularly problematic about Pelosi—maybe anyone in charge of leading congressional Democrats would become just as much of a villain as she is. On the other hand, when things aren’t working, it often helps to try a new thing instead of the old thing that hasn’t been working.
Cute.
God damn.
For once, though, I gotta say–if you follow the link to jbarro’s ignorant tweet, read the comments. Lots of good stuff (and good people behind it) in there. I particularly like the point that this was an incredibly narrow victory in a district that should’ve been hands-down Republican victory, and that if we were five months into a Hillary administration and the Dems were hemorrhaging voters in even half these numbers, the GOP would be credited with a major turnaround.
And honestly, I’m not looking to win hardline Republican districts; I want us to claim all those muddied purple districts that better electoral maps show. And Pelosi’s strategies, applied there when we get the opportunity, look to be promising.
‘On the other hand, when things aren’t working, it often helps to try a new thing instead of the old thing that hasn’t been working.’
Isn’t that the rationale for Trump’s candidacy?