Jeet Heer
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first heard Jul 2026
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Michael Bloomberg.
who has a billion, can run his own self-finance campaign, and we will, like, you know, ensure that a Republican would win rather than Bernie Sanders.
So, I mean, there's a consistent pattern of this group, which is, you know, like this, like, either they control the party or no one does.
Like, it's like Assad's slogan in Syria, you know, like, either I rule or I destroy the country.
Either they rule or they will destroy the party.
Now, I mean, the sort of analytical aspect of this, I think it's a writer named John Schwartz who sort of coined the term.
It's the iron law of institutions, which is that when you have certain institutions, the people who run them would rather, like, lose balance.
overall power, but still control the institutions, then win by ceding power to another group, by sharing power or even becoming junior partners.
And I think that that is exactly what is going on there.
You know, I mean, in our column,
I sort of compare this to the devil or Satan as portrayed in Paradise Lost, where the devil has the slogan, it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
Well, for people like James Carville and Neera Tanden, it is better to reign over a losing party because if they purge the left, they will lose, right?
And they know this.
It's better to reign over a losing party than to be servants in a winning party.
What can I even imagine?
I mean, I think there were people on the Republican Party who might have preferred to lose with Ron DeSantis or Jeb Bush than to win with Trump because they would then still control the Republican Party, right?
Yes.
And...
Yeah, no, I mean, I do think that that, I mean, like, I think the James Carville stuff is funny, and it could be quite dangerous.
Like, I actually do think, like, as with General Mills, these people do actually have the power to sabotage elections.
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