Lis Smith

Sadly, in this case, it wasn't true.

And like, I would gladly take credit for it if it were true.

James has ran a great campaign, but I think he's a great candidate.

I gave him some early informal advice, but I've not been working on this.

Look, a lot of Democrats said a lot of dumb shit in 2019 and 2020.

And I saw it up close.

You know, I was on Pete's presidential campaign, felt like a daily struggle with some of our staff trying to force Pete to use, you know, gender neutral language when it came to abortions and things like that.

And he's a guy from Indiana.

This is not how you're going to convert people on a fractious issue like abortion and choice.

So, look, I think we temporarily lost our minds.

I think we're at risk for that to happen again, by the way.

I don't think we're out of the woods.

But for now—

For now, I'm seeing some of this language bubbling up in some of these deep blue primaries, and I'm concerned with 2028.

Bingo.

And the staff that, you know, will be on these campaigns will, you know, try to push them that way or threaten to walk off, et cetera, et cetera.

But one thing that James is doing that I saw work well for Zoran Mamdani in his mayoral races, Zoran Mamdani was confronted with old tweets where he said, you know, we need to defund the police, the NYPD is an anti-queer, anti, I don't know, like all this sort of language I don't understand or use, right?

That I've never heard normal people use.

like a colonizing force, right?

Oberlin College dorm lecture.