HELP! I'm being inspired against my own will! I'm feeling seen! I'm uncovering hope under layers of cynicsm! Who is this spokesperson for a self-reflective party that is committing to fight back, and what does he think he's doing??
@benwikler.bsky.social on the Daily Show -- I haven't smiled this hard since Nov 5! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBt...
To get our message out under a Trump era, we need a party leader who will shine on both traditional and social media. Ben for DNC Chair! Support him here: benwikler.com
ME TOO
👆 And dude kept the swing to Trump to just 1.5 points in WI -- lowest of any swing state in the country, & compared to a 6-point nat'l swing.
We lost ALL the swing states. To get someone whose state Harris won, by definition it's a Blue state Dem who's never run a real Pres race. Bad strategy.
100% agree. Got a firsthand look of his leadership as a volunteer for the Wisconsin Dems. If there’s anyone that can organize on a grass level in Midwestern states it’s Ben Wikler
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Over the last 5 years, Ben has built a permanent campaign in WI. 2024 brought a 6% shift nationally towards Trump. In Wisconsin, it was only 1.5% -- the smallest of any swing state!!
If you want someone from a state that Harris won, you're by definition gonna get someone from a blue state who hasn't had to fight a close presidential race. That's a terrible way to choose a party leader.
WI had the smallest swing towards Trump (1.5 points) of any swing states (around 3 points on average) and much lower than the national swing (around 6 points). Meanwhile, they won down the ballot, when by all rights they should have lost seats. Ben pulled off a downright miracle.
I first worked with Ben in 2009 and have been lucky to call him a close friend ever since. He's principled, strategic, a brilliant communicator, and deeply cares about our country. He's exactly the leader the Democratic party needs right now.
I canvassed in the Adam Gray race on Sunday before E Day. It's currently at literally 50.0-50.0!! Support ballot curing so (a) I can say my door knocking flipped a house seat and (b) we can keep the GOP majority to literally the slimmest of margins.
No rest for the wicked...
No one better than @benwikler.bsky.social 🤩
....If we had strong parties, the party could own it. But we don't. Instead we have two marketplaces, Democratic and Republican, and entrepreneurs who compete for those brands." 2/2
At Marshall Ganz book talk. "We need a kind of vigor in political organization that is not owned by candidates. What I learned from Obama is that the candidate cannot own the organization.... 1/2
Among the saddest things about this is that last time it happened—and it did happen, almost immediately—Trump deported a bunch of adoptees whose parents thought adoption gave them citizenship. It didn’t.
Why hello! Fancy seeing you here 😁 Played any good board games recently?
Fun fact #3: Blue Sky CEO Jay Graber's birth name is Lantian Graber. In Mandarin, Lantian means "blue sky" -- her mom, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, gave her the name, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom"!
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Fun fact #2: The CEO of Blue Sky Social goes by Jay Graber, which immediately conjured up a typical 27-yo white dude tech founder in my mind. But actually, she's a Chinese-Swiss-American woman!
Fun Blue Sky fact #1. The underlying technology was Jack Dorsey's pet project he set up separate entity contracting with Twitter. But when Elon took over, he wasn't interested and Blue Sky -- just 3 people then! -- were left out in the cold. They've made their own way since...
Three fun facts I just learned about Blue Sky that foreshadow Blue Sky being the app to dethrone X. Well done to the writers of the current season of our timeline; you're doing HBO's Silicon Valley proud.
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::taps mic:: Is this thing on?
