I’m puzzled by how slow and late the Dems’ mobilization against this tax bill has been. Messaging all over the map, too.

— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) December 2, 2017

Looks like we’re gonna see a lot of this hot take. Media not looking in the mirror about how this debate was covered. https://t.co/ZwrKvkQIRX

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) December 2, 2017

Half the time Democrats went on TV to discuss the bill — one metric of messaging — they got poleaxed on sexual harassment. See the “Meet the Press” Pelosi interview, where she brought up taxes at the end bc it was never asked about. https://t.co/8QBxTIcz5l

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 2, 2017

There is a reason I was *very suspicious* about how only Dem congresscritters have been accused.

Republicans can’t govern but they can play the media like a fiddle. https://t.co/kA7x29mtSP

— Elizabeth Rogers (@ahumorlessfem) December 2, 2017

This shit is why I find myself not grokking the ‘Dems don’t fight hard enough’ bullshit sometimes. If a tree falls in the forest, and the media refuses to cover it, did it really happen?…yes, of course it did, not that you’d fucking know about it.

There’s something to be said about how viciously they fight, maybe, but holy shit.