{"id":848,"date":"2025-01-20T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2025-01-20T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:20:09","slug":"explaining-the-2024-elections-exaggerated-mandate-vibes-julia-azari-good-politics-bad-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/explaining-the-2024-elections-exaggerated-mandate-vibes-julia-azari-good-politics-bad-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExplaining the 2024 election&#8217;s exaggerated mandate vibes\u201d &#8211; Julia Azari (Good politics\/Bad politics)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cPerhaps more importantly, the Biden era rarely felt like winning for Democrats. The Dobbs decision undoubtedly contributed to this. But it\u2019s also a feature of why Democratic politics seems to fall short in the \u201cmessaging\u201d wars. Biden came to office with a lot of problems to solve, and addressing problems requires talking about what the problems are, who is affected, and why they came about. This produces a very psychologically unsatisfying discourse not well-suited to the current media environment. And solutions are often slow and riddled with tradeoffs. Even if they address the underlying problems, they don\u2019t solve the messaging issues\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com\/p\/explaining-the-2024-elections-exaggerated\">https:\/\/goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com\/p\/explaining-the-2024-elections-exaggerated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPerhaps more importantly, the Biden era rarely felt like winning for Democrats. The Dobbs decision undoubtedly contributed to this. But it\u2019s also a feature of why Democratic politics seems to fall short in the \u201cmessaging\u201d wars. Biden came to office with a lot of problems to solve, and addressing problems requires talking about what the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}