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First-time reader with Thoughts.

The author is "mortally appalled" by today's Republicans but apparently expects Democrats to use their sleazy tactics to fight back. Sure, let's all of us jump into the mud puddle while the world burns around us.

"The Democrats’ investigations and court cases tend to be overly litigious" - would those be the 60-plus lawsuits to overthrow the 2020 election? Or perhaps the dozens of lawsuits filed by Marc Elias, et al, to ensure voting is free and fair for all who qualify? The 4 indictments (so far) and 91+ felony charges (so far) against the former guy aren't "Democrats' investigations" - they're the Justice system's investigations in 4 different jurisdictions.

Democrats are over here trying to govern; Republicans are over there trying to get their faces on Faux 'news' and other right-wing media. I don't vote for circus clowns, I vote for legislators, and I doubt I'm the only one.

The author has issues with "identity politics" and "woke obsessions" - if marginalized communities weren't under constant attack by the Right, perhaps the Left could spend less time defending them by name and more time reminding voters that we really are the Big Tent party where all* are welcome, using direct examples of policies and laws enacted to serve the majority of Americans rather than the top .1% of wealth-owners.

Messaging is hard. You can't put a rational economic policy on a bumper sticker. You can't put a highly-nuanced and extremely complex immigration system into an "easy fix" talking point (Narrator: There is no "easy fix" to immigration)

Dems aren't denying there are big problems out there, but we're not getting the message across that crime is down in big Blue cities while it rages in Red states. That an attack on women's rights opens the doors to attacks on ALL rights. That today it's the drag queens but tomorrow it could be the Loyal Order of Moose for all we know. Today it's gay marriage, tomorrow it's interracial marriage, and next week it's back to separate water fountains. You can scoff, but we've already seen what's happening in the aftermath of Roe's reversal, and we've heard what the Hard Right has been saying about all the rest. (Ok, maybe not the Moose - I'm sure they're very nice folks.)

The world is messy. Life is messy. I'd rather be on the side of the people trying to deal with and straighten out the messes than those who concentrate on making more of them. But maybe that's just me.

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When I read this...

"So I tend to write about Biden’s age more than Trump’s sociopathy, and about the Dems’ identity and woke obsessions more than the Republicans’ fundamental corruption. “

It made me cringe in disgust. Playing the useful idiot by parroting demagogic (and, no surprise, false) idea that the "Dems’ identity and woke obsessions “ is bad enough.

NO, it’s the REPUBLICANS that have "identity and woke obsessions”. The obsession with demonizing “big cities” and college educated. Crapping, literally on anyone that does not toe the radical MAGA Cult.

Their “woke obsession” is even worse. Anything that they do no deem sufficiently MAGA worthy, is labeled as “woke”....along with the usual tropes of “communist”, “socialist” and “Marxist”.

No, Mr. Klein. YOUR obsession with writing (again, playing their MAGA useful idiot) on "Biden’s age more than Trump’s sociopathy” IS THE PROBLEM!!!!!

STOP whining about President Biden’s age and write more about his undeniable successful presidency, with more substantive achievements than is generally known (because people like you write about Biden’s age more than Trump’s sociopathy).

Write about the fact that President Biden has surround himself with extremely competent and scandal free patriots unlike the scumbag who has already vowed to install his unqualified (except to have total fealty to Dear Leader), totally unfit (just like their Mob Boss) and unpatriotic (TRUMP comes before EVERYTHING and is more their oath of loyalty is to TRUMP and NOT the Constitution) in every corner of the federal government with his dreadful power grab of “Schedule F” which should send a shudder up every freedom loving American.

Every prominent voice, like yours, should be SHOUTING every moment about Trump’s sociopathy and the Republicans’ fundamental corruption....and his plans if he is able to steal the 2024 election

I’m not “annoyed” with Joe Biden., I am grateful and thankful that he brought us back from the edge of destruction, starting to repair our democratic institutions after the raving lunatic Trump.

THAT is what almost every column should be about until Trump is defeated at the ballot box once again. This column is too little, but it’s not too late.

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