This newsletter could easily have been written in a way to show that Democrats are taking action against their own pols that have gone too far. It could have been written in a positive voice that acknowledged Democratic leaders and voters are taking concrete steps to fix our perception problem. That they are taking the advice the Bulwark has been giving them for months now.

Instead the focus is "Boy, are these people crazy or what?" With the implication being that the people voted out and making out there comments on twitter represent the Democratic party. The new mayor of San Francisco is only mentioned once, and that by her last name without acknowledgment that she's the mayor, in a pulled quote from the NY Post,

This is illustrative of the "communication problem" people complain that the Democrats have. Even a site that says it wants them to succeed, The Bulwark, when it has a chance to tell a story about how Democrats are turning it around on culture war issues instead focuses on "look how crazy these people are" by finding the most far out there people and saying the represent the Democratic party.

I totally get JVL's nihilism and am on board with it.