The other trend I’ve noticed is that when events occur that should help support the narrative of the left (such as the awful murder of George Floyd), instead of focusing on making incremental improvements (improve training, ban chokeholds, end war on drugs), they go all in (defund the police * ).
* I know that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” but maybe we should go with slogans that, and this is a tad crazy I know, don’t mean something other than what the actual goal is?
I find that the left-wing in the US in general seems too enamored with big ticket wins (see infrastructure bill, social spending bill, and voting rights bill). They completely ignore small-ball politics — appointing bureaucrats, stacking courts, procedural minutiae, local governments — unlike their conservative counterparts, who despite losing the majorities and the white house itself, have put allies so deeply into political mechanisms that they can control the tempo and timing of how things are run across the country.
Meanwhile, the State department languishes without ambassadors because the current government is too distracted trying to pass a bill doomed to fail.
