State of Friday: WATCH OUT FOR RAHM
Democrats have injected fringe culture war issues into every aspect of institutional America.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
First, I must apologize. I promised you a write-up today on my “new favorite conspiracy theory.” In the interest of time, however, I have to punt that to Monday.
I KNOW! I’M SORRY!
I want to do it adequate justice and between the move and graduation today of the spring class of the National Journalism Center (my other job, we work multiple jobs to have multiple children, yay!), I simply do not have the bandwidth.
With that, I give you …
WATCH OUT FOR RAHM
Newsom might think he has it in the bag, but I’m not so sure.
We’re bound to see a ton of established Dems start posturing themselves aggressively for a ‘28 run once the midterms are over. Hochul, Whitmer, and former spooks Slotkin and Spanberger. You’ve also got Booker, Moore, Buttigieg and Beshear on the dude side.
But I’d watch out for Rahm.
I’m not saying he’s going to run. He might. What I am saying is just that: Watch out for him.
Rahm Emanuel has been doing the rounds rather asymmetrically lately. He’s not on every hip podcast, but he does do some here and there, and when he does, he goes viral for saying the obvious.
“We lost the plot,” he said on “The Fifth Column” podcast this past week. “We as Democrats nationally – from Latinx, to defunding the police, to police organizations are all racist, to bringing a set of culture wars to our schools, we are on the losing side of those culture wars, full stop.
You are worried about bathroom access and locker room access, why don’t you focus on classroom excellence. You have 50% of our kids not reading at grade level.”
You’ve permitted a 30-year low in reading and math scores and nobody seems to be calling the whistle on this. We’ve lost the plot. The party got unanchored.”
We went from acceptance to advocacy.”
Emanuel says what Republicans have been saying for a decade now. Democrats have injected fringe culture war issues into every aspect of institutional America. Corporate boards, FAA flight training, Harvard Med School, you name it.
“Every one of our most successful electoral presidents anchored themselves in middle class values … values that are universally, at least in this country, ascribed to.”
There’s a number of things you could say at this point. Well, he was Obama’s “enforcer.” Obama was the one who set a lot of this culture bullsh*t in motion!
Emanuel left in 2010 and by every metric, the ballooning of racial equity didn’t begin in earnest until a few years later. What else you got?
He presided over Chicago during some of its most violent years. He suppressed dash cam video of police shooting a black man.
But that won’t work either. Have you ever heard of a guy named Brandon Johnson?
Johnson’s cartoonish administration over Chicago, replete with backward and verifiably false assertions about race, will act as a heat shield for any Emanuel criticism. What else?
Every attack you’d make on him from Chicago to immigration to his time with Obama has only been outshown by successive liberal leadership, by orders of magnitude, if we’re fair.
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Again, I’m not saying he’s going to run. In fact, I don’t think he will.
The Party is still devising strategy around a worldview that we all know doesn’t work, the same one Rahm is openly attacking in his sparse appearances.
So it’s not so much a will-he-or-won’t-he question, right now, dear reader.
I’m simply saying, watch out for him. He’s got his eyes open about what’s keeping the wider party apparatus in the L column.
Those names I mentioned previously, to a one they’ve all slimed themselves with this same worldview. California is a mess. Newsom’s own wife says she’ll go by “first partner” if he wins. This is lunacy. Spanberger’s Virginia might as well have made crime legal. Hochul is literally begging wealthy people to move back to New York from Palm Springs in order to pay taxes. Wes Moore fabricated his whole history. Andy Beshear vetoed legislation that would have prevented hospitals from castrating minors.
They’ve all defiled themselves in ways that do not fit Rahm’s worldview on successful Democrats.
So watch out for where Rahm goes. For who or what he throws his weight behind. His “enforcer” nature, his shamelessness, it will just be an upside for him. Will it be Mark Kelly’s campaign?
Unlike most other Democrats who recently started experimenting with cuss words, when Rahm Emanuel says “f*ck off,” which he has been known to do, nobody thinks for a second it’s a put-on. He actually means it.
I think here he’s signalling his intent to play a role in the reorienting of the Party.
Republicans should pay attention to wherever that is.
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