For Arendt, facts and opinions, “though they must be kept apart, are not antagonistic to each other; they belong to the same realm.” A fact (her example is Germany’s invasion of Belgium in August 1914) “acquires political implications only by being put in an interpretative context.” Whoever reports what happened, she wrote, “always tells a story, and in this story the particular facts lose their contingency and acquire some humanly comprehensible meaning.”
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That is what Arendt meant when she argued that organizing people together to change the world—that is to say, doing politics—requires an approach that rejects outright lying while also avoiding a complacent expectation that “the truth” will reveal itself for voters to follow. The narrative wars have begun. If Democrats are smart, they’ll opt for storytelling instead.
The democrats only win as a rejection of the republicans.
Every fucking election they win, including 2020 by a hair, they crow about how republicans will never win another election and changing demographics. Then they sell out and suck and hand it back.
Which is why we can’t have the same old leadership as the old days. We need to establish a new direction for the Democratic party, not rebuild the old structure that led to MAGA.