PRINTER?! He Hardly Knew ‘Er!

Jon Ossoff says he has no interest in running for president in 2028. But between fundraising prowess and narrative shaping and attention driving, he’s doing a better job of it than just about anyone else in the Democratic Party.

In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss:

• The Natalie Harp ploy, and how Ossoff yoked national attention to Donald Trump’s broader degeneracy;

• Whether Ossoff provides (finally!) a template for the moderates-who-fight synthesis we’ve been promised;

• Unanswered questions about how much of this glow up is luck, and whether Ossoff’s actual record will hold up in a presidential primary, if he run and has a left-wing opponent.

Then, Democratic Party officialdom has pulled back together pretty well after bruising primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin. But on the fringes, influential progressives and moderates continue to take potshots at the nominees they were hoping to beat: progressives at David Crowley in Wisconsin; moderates at Abdul el-Sayed in Michigan. What are they thinking? Could Bernie Sanders and AOC tamp down the cheap-seat heckling from the left? Could Chuck Schumer snuff out big-money anti-el-Sayed activism in the center? And where will moderate, pro-Israel Jewish voters take their political resources if they leave the Democratic Party, but have no home in the increasingly Groyperified GOP.

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Further reading:

• Brian asks why more Democrats don’t sound like Ossoff specifically on the Iran war question.

• Matt on the differences between the left-wing insurgency and the progressive establishment.

• Natalie Harp: More than Trump’s “human binkie.”