Mr. Talarico is likely to the Left of Crockett on many issues, just far more skilled at hiding his actual political leanings. If Biden was the Dem policy Trojan Horse, Mr. Talarico is the EV version, same animal, but with less noise.
Besides, whether Ms. Crockett or Mr. Talarico were to occupy the Texas Senate seat, their future voting records would be exactly the same. They would mirror those of Spanberger and Sherrill, the supposed Dem moderate winners of last months VA and NJ Governor races. They would vote with AOC, 100% of the time.
Not one Dem, with the exception of Henry Cuellar, ever suggested Biden close the border, before pollsters informed Dems their lack of action would eventually cost Dems the WH.
Not one Dem, ever questioned trillions in Green spending based on dubious science. Nor did they note the Dem jihad on fossil fuels and mandates limiting American choices in everything from autos to appliances, might trigger inflation.
Not one Dem House or Senate member ever demanded schools reopen during the Covid fiasco. Not one noted that while Americans were losing their jobs and the ability to travel if they refused the Covid vaccine, not a single one Biden's 10 million new arrivals were required to be vaccinated for Covid, or anything else.
After 2020, the notion of the moderate Dem is a marketing myth, and little else. It ranks up there with campaigns that convinced Americans cigarettes were good for them and Obamacare would control healthcare costs.
Dems do not have a candidate problem. They have a policy problem. Crockett or Talarico will produce the exact same results for Texans. Neither will support policies that will improve Texas life. It just a matter of how much mascara would be utilized in office.
To the policy problem, add the performance problem. They said they would repeal Trump's 2017 tax cuts; they left them in place. They said they would raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hr; they left it at $7.25. They said they would pass a federal law to override state right-to-work laws; they passed no such law. They proposed other policies, like charging student loans to the taxpayers, making D.C. a state, converting all the nation's school buses to electricity. They punted on all this, but they did find the time to impeach a President who had already left office.
"When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you can't make me doubt who I am, is because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the (Congressional) seat," she told CNN.
Actually, no, she didn't have to work hard at all. The Texas 30th District is the safest Democratic seat in Texas, especially for a black politician. In 2024, no Republican ran for the seat although a Libertarian got 15% of the vote. "With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+25, it is one of the most Democratic districts in Texas." Demographically, it is 40% black, 36% Hispanic, and 18% white. It has never elected a Congressman who wasn't black.
Rep. Crockett made her stand on illegal immigration clear: “The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community. It’s basically like, I fought to get here, but I left y’all where I left y’all. And I want no more y’all to come here. If I wanted to be with y’all, I would stay with y’all, but I don’t want y’all coming to my new home.”
Her official campaign website says that she wants the United States to run 100% on renewable energy by 2035. Imagine how that sounds in the nation's largest oil-producing state.
Her insult of Gov. Abbott as "Governor Hot Wheels" is mild compared to all the names she has called President Trump: "A piece of sh!t, mofo, a wannabe Hitler." According to her, “I don’t even know what to call him. I’ve called him so many things." In 2024, Trump carried Texas with 56% of the vote.
Winning a Senate seat in Texas is difficult for a Democrat, as demonstrated by Colin Allred and Beto O'Rourke. But, if Texas Democrats cannot run a better candidate for the office than Rep. Crockett, why is that?
Like a stopped clock, even President Trump in his non-stop, unsolicited opinions on everything and anything might be right just twice a day. His characterization of Jazmine Crockett as a "low IQ" person was one such time.
Not even a likely landslide loss in her quest for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas of all places will see this loose cannon pause long enough for a little introspective restraint.
A politician who thinks they “had to go around the country and educate people” is an embodiment of the snobbery and contempt many powerful Americans feel toward their less powerful countrymen.
If Blacks will only vote for Black candidates and Latinos will only vote for Latino candidates then the Democrats are left with NPR listeners wearing masks.
Crockett is the stereotypical black person with a bias against us ordinary old white people, who greatly reduces our inclination to support other black candidates. One form of racism encourages another.
If it were me in Texas I wouldn't vote for either of them, and I'm a Democrat. Talarico is a Biden Democrat who sees the main problem with immigration is that we can't legalise those here fast enough. Oh, and he's ok with a few million more, but for pete's sake make an orderly line so we can sign you up for benefits.
Of the two I think Crockett best represents where the party is at right now. Lots of yelling and code switching with "aints" and "y'alls": tossed in for authenticity. Crockett is Black with a capital B and a Woman, what more does she need?
Just a reminder Beto O’Rourke was the most openly supportive gun grabber in many election cycles. Even punctuating his gungrabiness with F bombs if I'm remembering correctly. (to show he really means it) He could have won Westchester County with ease. He did great considering.
Trump has been messing up just by being himself, and that might well be more than enough to come close with the senate, but Democrats have a real opportunity and we are letting it pass by. The electorate is more than ready for some much needed reforms and a renewing of the social contract. The change of direction needed by the Democratic Party to make a decisive win in the senate, with all of the political capital that would give them, is still in my opinion far out of reach.
This points to a possible problem going forward, can progressives control themselves or will they insist forcing the Democratic Party to nominate non-viable candidates in swing and light red jurisdictions? If so, we can look forward to permanent Trump Party majorities in Congress. Unfortunately, there may not be enough moderates left in the party to vote against extremists like Crockett in the primaries.
Texas does not register by party, which leads to a perpetual "Texas is in play" for Democrats. The fact is the polls, in TX, always underestimate the R candidate and over state the D candidate. I don't think it matters who runs, though I will miss the massive bonfires of money that Beta O'Roarke burns up every time he runs for anything.
Maybe the the Dems should acknowledge that some of Trumps actions and thinking are good and propose solving the problems in a different fashion that is not harmful to the economy. As to Mr. Olson’s $15 minimum wage, I am in agreement. A neighbor kid wanted to do some yard work for us and he wanted $15 an hour, I balked. When I was his age I was making $.50 an hour on the farm. But then relating my $.50 to the $15, the 15 doesn’t have the purchasing power that my $.50. So this conservative independent agrees, raise it to 15.
This analysis perfectly illustrates the "Demography is Destiny" fallacy I explore in Chapter 7 of Creation Over Critique. Crockett’s strategy relies on a zombie assumption: that higher turnout among minority voters automatically benefits Democrats. But as we saw in 2024 (and 2020), the "sleeping giant" is waking up conservative.
When Crockett dismisses Hispanic Trump voters as having a "slave mentality," she isn't just being offensive; she is demonstrating the fatal flaw of modern identity politics: flattening complex people into monolithic victims. Working-class Latinos in Texas are often aspirational, religious, and concerned with border order. They don’t see themselves through the singular lens of oppression that Progressive activists project onto them.
If we continue to treat demographics as political destiny, we will lose. We need to stop waiting for a "Rainbow Coalition" to save us and start building a coalition based on material solidarity. Talarico’s approach—acknowledging the reality of the border while maintaining compassion—isn't "centrism"; it's recognizing that voters are more than just their demographic check-boxes.
I don’t get what the issue is. People like the OP are hyperventilating for no reason. It’s an election; Mr. Talerico and Ms. Crockett can state their respective cases to Dem primary voters and then those voters will decide who they want to represent them in the general election. If Mr. Talerico cannot defeat Ms. Crockett, then how can he be expected to defeat Mr. Paxton?
Another poorly thought out article from the Illiberal Patriot.
Mr. Talarico is likely to the Left of Crockett on many issues, just far more skilled at hiding his actual political leanings. If Biden was the Dem policy Trojan Horse, Mr. Talarico is the EV version, same animal, but with less noise.
Besides, whether Ms. Crockett or Mr. Talarico were to occupy the Texas Senate seat, their future voting records would be exactly the same. They would mirror those of Spanberger and Sherrill, the supposed Dem moderate winners of last months VA and NJ Governor races. They would vote with AOC, 100% of the time.
Not one Dem, with the exception of Henry Cuellar, ever suggested Biden close the border, before pollsters informed Dems their lack of action would eventually cost Dems the WH.
Not one Dem, ever questioned trillions in Green spending based on dubious science. Nor did they note the Dem jihad on fossil fuels and mandates limiting American choices in everything from autos to appliances, might trigger inflation.
Not one Dem House or Senate member ever demanded schools reopen during the Covid fiasco. Not one noted that while Americans were losing their jobs and the ability to travel if they refused the Covid vaccine, not a single one Biden's 10 million new arrivals were required to be vaccinated for Covid, or anything else.
After 2020, the notion of the moderate Dem is a marketing myth, and little else. It ranks up there with campaigns that convinced Americans cigarettes were good for them and Obamacare would control healthcare costs.
Dems do not have a candidate problem. They have a policy problem. Crockett or Talarico will produce the exact same results for Texans. Neither will support policies that will improve Texas life. It just a matter of how much mascara would be utilized in office.
To the policy problem, add the performance problem. They said they would repeal Trump's 2017 tax cuts; they left them in place. They said they would raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hr; they left it at $7.25. They said they would pass a federal law to override state right-to-work laws; they passed no such law. They proposed other policies, like charging student loans to the taxpayers, making D.C. a state, converting all the nation's school buses to electricity. They punted on all this, but they did find the time to impeach a President who had already left office.
"When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you can't make me doubt who I am, is because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the (Congressional) seat," she told CNN.
Actually, no, she didn't have to work hard at all. The Texas 30th District is the safest Democratic seat in Texas, especially for a black politician. In 2024, no Republican ran for the seat although a Libertarian got 15% of the vote. "With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+25, it is one of the most Democratic districts in Texas." Demographically, it is 40% black, 36% Hispanic, and 18% white. It has never elected a Congressman who wasn't black.
Rep. Crockett made her stand on illegal immigration clear: “The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community. It’s basically like, I fought to get here, but I left y’all where I left y’all. And I want no more y’all to come here. If I wanted to be with y’all, I would stay with y’all, but I don’t want y’all coming to my new home.”
Her official campaign website says that she wants the United States to run 100% on renewable energy by 2035. Imagine how that sounds in the nation's largest oil-producing state.
Her insult of Gov. Abbott as "Governor Hot Wheels" is mild compared to all the names she has called President Trump: "A piece of sh!t, mofo, a wannabe Hitler." According to her, “I don’t even know what to call him. I’ve called him so many things." In 2024, Trump carried Texas with 56% of the vote.
Winning a Senate seat in Texas is difficult for a Democrat, as demonstrated by Colin Allred and Beto O'Rourke. But, if Texas Democrats cannot run a better candidate for the office than Rep. Crockett, why is that?
Like a stopped clock, even President Trump in his non-stop, unsolicited opinions on everything and anything might be right just twice a day. His characterization of Jazmine Crockett as a "low IQ" person was one such time.
Not even a likely landslide loss in her quest for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas of all places will see this loose cannon pause long enough for a little introspective restraint.
A politician who thinks they “had to go around the country and educate people” is an embodiment of the snobbery and contempt many powerful Americans feel toward their less powerful countrymen.
If Blacks will only vote for Black candidates and Latinos will only vote for Latino candidates then the Democrats are left with NPR listeners wearing masks.
Crockett is the stereotypical black person with a bias against us ordinary old white people, who greatly reduces our inclination to support other black candidates. One form of racism encourages another.
Carlton is the stereotypical white person who posts stupid, nonsensical, unsupported, racial tropes on the internet. Go yell at a cloud your moron.
If it were me in Texas I wouldn't vote for either of them, and I'm a Democrat. Talarico is a Biden Democrat who sees the main problem with immigration is that we can't legalise those here fast enough. Oh, and he's ok with a few million more, but for pete's sake make an orderly line so we can sign you up for benefits.
Of the two I think Crockett best represents where the party is at right now. Lots of yelling and code switching with "aints" and "y'alls": tossed in for authenticity. Crockett is Black with a capital B and a Woman, what more does she need?
Just a reminder Beto O’Rourke was the most openly supportive gun grabber in many election cycles. Even punctuating his gungrabiness with F bombs if I'm remembering correctly. (to show he really means it) He could have won Westchester County with ease. He did great considering.
Trump has been messing up just by being himself, and that might well be more than enough to come close with the senate, but Democrats have a real opportunity and we are letting it pass by. The electorate is more than ready for some much needed reforms and a renewing of the social contract. The change of direction needed by the Democratic Party to make a decisive win in the senate, with all of the political capital that would give them, is still in my opinion far out of reach.
This points to a possible problem going forward, can progressives control themselves or will they insist forcing the Democratic Party to nominate non-viable candidates in swing and light red jurisdictions? If so, we can look forward to permanent Trump Party majorities in Congress. Unfortunately, there may not be enough moderates left in the party to vote against extremists like Crockett in the primaries.
Texas does not register by party, which leads to a perpetual "Texas is in play" for Democrats. The fact is the polls, in TX, always underestimate the R candidate and over state the D candidate. I don't think it matters who runs, though I will miss the massive bonfires of money that Beta O'Roarke burns up every time he runs for anything.
What makes you think she wants to win? She just wants to get that sweet cash money from running.
Maybe the the Dems should acknowledge that some of Trumps actions and thinking are good and propose solving the problems in a different fashion that is not harmful to the economy. As to Mr. Olson’s $15 minimum wage, I am in agreement. A neighbor kid wanted to do some yard work for us and he wanted $15 an hour, I balked. When I was his age I was making $.50 an hour on the farm. But then relating my $.50 to the $15, the 15 doesn’t have the purchasing power that my $.50. So this conservative independent agrees, raise it to 15.
This analysis perfectly illustrates the "Demography is Destiny" fallacy I explore in Chapter 7 of Creation Over Critique. Crockett’s strategy relies on a zombie assumption: that higher turnout among minority voters automatically benefits Democrats. But as we saw in 2024 (and 2020), the "sleeping giant" is waking up conservative.
When Crockett dismisses Hispanic Trump voters as having a "slave mentality," she isn't just being offensive; she is demonstrating the fatal flaw of modern identity politics: flattening complex people into monolithic victims. Working-class Latinos in Texas are often aspirational, religious, and concerned with border order. They don’t see themselves through the singular lens of oppression that Progressive activists project onto them.
If we continue to treat demographics as political destiny, we will lose. We need to stop waiting for a "Rainbow Coalition" to save us and start building a coalition based on material solidarity. Talarico’s approach—acknowledging the reality of the border while maintaining compassion—isn't "centrism"; it's recognizing that voters are more than just their demographic check-boxes.
I don’t get what the issue is. People like the OP are hyperventilating for no reason. It’s an election; Mr. Talerico and Ms. Crockett can state their respective cases to Dem primary voters and then those voters will decide who they want to represent them in the general election. If Mr. Talerico cannot defeat Ms. Crockett, then how can he be expected to defeat Mr. Paxton?
Another poorly thought out article from the Illiberal Patriot.