Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 03/07/2026What makes you extremely proud to be an American? 000
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Why do people pretend there’s any meaningful difference between the two dots on the left? 100
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Jasmine Crockett: the electable candidate who mobilizes core Democratic constituencies and not crazy white liberals. 020
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Despite the tough loss in NJ-11 last night, normie resistance libs can come back, we believe in you 010
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 23/11/2025It might not be aesthetically pretty but a new city like this in West Texas would simultaneously solve America’s housing shortage while giving people the kind of housing they want. 210
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Democrats can't solve their problems with economic populism if it isn't also accompanied by cultural moderation. Pairing economic populism with cultural leftism does a net of 49 points worse overall, 27 points worse among persuadables. 110
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 25/10/2025“You can just do things” FDR 1933 🤝 Donald Trump 2025 110
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 04/10/2025The debate about the future of the Democratic Party begins and ends with this photo. All they’ve gotta do is turn the clock back 30 years and do exactly what he did. 210
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 24/09/2025In a world of Jimmy Kimmels, be a Jimmy Fallon, a reliable stalwart of apolitical mainstream acceptability 030
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The concerns you have for the death of democracy are invalid 010
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Initial probabilities in a 7-way field: Newsom 29.7% AOC 19.5% Buttigieg 13.4% Shapiro 12.2% Whitmer 11.3% Booker 9.0% Beshear 5.1% 020
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Unhappiness is a feature of being on the left these days. A greater belief in societal ills is internalized, reinforced by being online 24/7. They talk often about right-wingers or Trump policies literally killing people. It’s no surprise we see the mental health gaps we do. 000
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This sane approach to identity politics got just 2 votes at the DNC. 310
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 29/01/2025$17.8 million for “distributional and procedural equity” of the electric grid 🤡🤡🤡 100
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 06/01/2025And let me be extremely clear about this quote he uses: This is largely about welfare cheating Latinos see in their own communities, just like you saw a clear and obvious negative reaction to illegal immigration along the border. 000
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I wonder how @smotus.bsky.social accounts for the record number of Black men who left the party in 2024? Are we going to get articles soon about “racially resentful” Blacks just like this one about “white supremacist Latinos?” open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p... 200
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 02/01/2025A good rule of thumb is if you don’t live in one of the blue counties, you live in a bubble. 100
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 31/12/2024The current moment must be incredibly emotionally invalidating for the anti-Trump resistance. 000
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Absolutely jaw-dropping. The only reason the Democratic Party exists is because they stand up for the little guy, the weak, the marginalized. What does it say about them that they are losing these votes? 020
Patrick Ruffini @patrickruffini.bsky.social · 14/12/202473% of Democrats want to ditch identity politics for a focus on the economic issues the working class cares about. echeloninsights.com/in-the-news/... 131
