I don't think this is true. Things were not nearly as bad in 2018 as they are today. Abortion has been illegal in Texas long enough for a whole lot of voters who might not have previously cared to at least personally know someone who has been fucked over. A lot of people can't afford beef. A lot of people are going to see their insurance premiums double next month. Beto proved on a national stage that he's not that strong of a candidate. It's certainly possible that no democrat can win in Texas, but I like either Talarico or Crockett's chances a lot better than I ever liked Beto's.
Trump running for president was a bit, too. The problem is that when enough people like the bullshit you spew and start following you, it's no longer a bit.
Talarico is a great candidate as well and probably will win his primary, anyway. I just think that nationally, the democrats are way too focused on identity and not nearly focused enough on charisma. They need candidates who will get people off their asses and out to the ballot box.
Yeah, the people who think Crockett is uppity are not going to appreciate this guy telling them the Bible actually means things their pastor doesn't talk about.
I'm not saying that she will definitely win or anything. Just that if she can't win, Talarico also isn't going to win. She'd be a solid candidate in any state that has any chance whatsoever of electing a democrat.
It feels just like about 10 years ago, when Elon (who wasn't nearly as hated then) and his followers kept saying that nobody would be driving their own cars by now and that parking garages would be empty because automated taxi services would be so cheap. That actually felt less like bullshit to me because I didn't have a self-driving car of my own to constantly disappoint me the way that I have ChatGPT on my phone and google's top result every time I do a search.
If the democrats can't win a statewide race in Texas with the economy in the shitter like it is and with their citizens having to leave work to go keep the peace in warzones like the touristy parts of Chicago, then it doesn't really matter who they are running. Talarico and Crockett are both viable candidates in any state that has a snowball's chance in hell of actually electing a democrat.
The supreme court is going to cancel them in March. We are going to be running an absolutely enormous deficit, even by government standards, between the tax cut, loss of tariffs revenue, and tariffs refund payments, but I don't have a lot of hope in the Democrats' ability to message that.
We're a Christian nation, though.
The people who support raiding a church's Christmas Eve service are the exact same people who get pissed off at their Starbucks cup not saying "Merry Christmas."