I addressed this earlier this week: Candidates like the ones Chait cites didn't lose because they were ideological outliers, they lost because they were terrible candidates who said appalling things and the electorate judged them to be loons.
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We've Been Thinking About Electability All Wrong
Just being a moderate doesn't make a candidate electable. Here's what does.
@owillis.bsky.socialjonathan chait gives up the game with some masterful cherrypicking here. arguing that conservatism has lost in the gop by citing a bunch of crazies, meanwhile ignoring key figures like
- ronald reagan
- george w bush
- donald trump
- literally every single gop member of the house and senate
