okay, i'm gonna talk about politics now and you're gonna listen (or not, i'm not the boss of you)

As a Michigander, I have had an inside seat to the whole Abdul El-Sayed vs. Haley Stevens goat rodeo - as well as to the ways it connects to other progressive-versus-establishment-Democrat goat rodeos. And boy do I have some thoughts. yes he bloody well can beat Mike Rogers The big talking point among pundits right now is that El-Sayed can't beat Republican Mike Rogers (who ran unopposed in the primary) to win the November general. Yes he bloody well can. Here's how I know. we're all saying the same thing El-Sayed is saying the same things I am hearing from my deep red rural Trump-voting relatives, in exactly the same words I am hearing them use. "Things shouldn't be this hard." "We need to get money out of politics." There's a tendency among non-Trump voters to assume that everyone who voted Trump is a die hard MAGA superfan. A lot of them, at least the ones I know out farming rural Michigan, aren't. They voted for Trump because *literally nobody else was saying what they were…