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| Drawing by Kaamran Hafeez, originally in The New Yorker but I don't have a date, via Fine Art America. |
AP finally found a couple of Democrats in a diner, and the results aren't pretty:
Some Democrats in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats.
The party’s brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers and yard signs and refuse to acknowledge publicly their party affiliation. These Democrats are used to being outnumbered by the local Republican majority, but as their numbers continue to dwindle, those who remain are feeling increasingly isolated and unwelcome in their own communities.
“The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County who recently encouraged his daughter to get rid of a pro-Joe Biden bumper sticker. “I feel like we’re on the run.”
The article's basic thrust, not about how Republicans have been driven insane by the vicious lies of Rupert Murdoch's media and the sermons of Southern Baptists, but rather how Democrats "have a problem" ("symptomatic of a larger political problem threatening the Democratic Party heading into the November elections"), outraged our friend @drvolts, late of Wonkette, in a terrific polemical thread, like
The "Dems" that people in these areas hate bear virtually no resemblance to real-life Dems. It doesn't matter what Fetterman or any other ostentatiously in-touch-with-working-people candidate says -- they'll never hear it! They'll just hear lies about him. That's the root of it.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) February 17, 2022
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