With some people (basically out and out racists and a certain brand of suburban white), yes. Overall? No. Detroit and the surrounding area can criticize itself but outsiders not so much. People shitting on Detroit regularly happens with various sports stuff, and people get indignant every time.
Detroit is also in such a better place than it was 20 years ago. I was brought up with instructions to not stop at stop lights and to only go to Detroit for a concert or game. Yesterday a doctor friend of mine told me about how he was buying a condo downtown because it was so much fun. When I was in high school there were headlines about how there wasn’t a real grocery store in the whole city ffs. It’s such a better place now.
This is such fucking loser energy, you can’t be like “Republicans represent a threat to everything we hold dear, and I intend to work hand in hand with them in my administration”
It’s shooting yourself in the foot. “I’m going to create a bipartisan council of advisors where the Republicans will get mad at me every time I want to do something good for my voting base, and will eventually start leaking to sympathetic NYT reporters to plant bad stories in the media about my administration and how it’s failing to uphold my commitment to bipartisanship”. Brilliant politics! (Unless never doing anything good for the Dem base is her intention from the start)
Where the median voter is in this country and how stupid parts of the left is in this country means going to the center is clearly the right play. I wouldn’t be particularly worried about her becoming super centrist
From who, though? There’s a difference between “random Republicans outside the Harris administration think she’s doing a bad job” (lol who cares, bye Felicia) and “Republicans that Harris invited into her policymaking circle think she’s doing a bad job”, which reflects worse on her.
