Dana Bash on CNN calling the BS out
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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It's really super neat the way the radical right vilifies smart people while desperately pretending to be them. Very cool and stable worldview that will bring nothing but good things.
"you're not a scientist with all your "research" and "peer reviewed studies" and stupid "evidence"! You're not even wearing a lab coat! I've got a lab coat! You've got to respect me because my lab coat and my name tag says I'm a scientist! This guy doesn't even have a name tag c'mon."
/s hopefully obviously
"You think learning the specifics and intricacies and dedicating a chunk of your life to furthering your understanding of complex systems and decades navigating the rigors of academic study makes you a scientist or something?"
At their core they don't believe in merit. They believe in birthright.
The astounding progress humanity has made in the past few centuries doesn't happen without oppurtunity being, in some way, distributed based on merit. No country on Earth is a true meritocracy but the standard until very recently was feudalism where you're either born lucky or you're not.
For some right wing folk, there's not a lot to offer on the basis of merit so they'd rather move back to the coinflip model being lucky even if they have little to offer.
Look at RFK - does he really have anything to offer besides his name?
Also super neat that the non-radical right is just the Democratic leadership and the dead-fucking center get called the radical left and the actually slightly left are the Red Menace.
i feel like the "Center" is more center right than not.
Sort of a tangent, but yeah. That checks out.
Though, if you're looking for someone to blame, look no further than liberals and leftists.
Liberals, because in the 90s their big plan was to become indistinguishable from republicans. Well, in a two party system the two choices have to be different in some way shape of form, and the Clintonistas really only gave the GOP one direction to move. They KNEW this would happen and assumed it meant the GOP would become unelectable (see: Clinton 2016 campaign) instead of systematically destroying the USA. WHOOPS!
The left because we pre-compromising and always presenting the reasonable option first which leaves no room for negotiation other than to veer away from reasonable. If one side of the table is saying "tax the rich fairly" and the others is saying "hunt the poor for sport", the outcome is going to be somewhere in the middle.
Same mistake twice, really.
It sounds like you think the Left has a giant majority.
Mamdani ran as a 'democratic socialist' and barely got 51% of the vote in the Bluest city in america. He was running against a scandal ridden Centrist and a Mid-Right shock jock.
Harris got 65% of the vote. Mamdani did worse in both actual numbers of votes and percentages.
based on?