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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T04:03:18.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Why do the Democrats always seem to have exactly enough votes to lose? When the base overwhelmingly wants something, like a $15 minimum wage or stopping bomb sales, but the donor class hates it, the party relies on a specific institutional architecture to kill the policy without anyone having to take the blame.\n\nIn this video, we move beyond the “smoke-filled room” conspiracy of the Rotating Villain to look at Cartel Party Theory. We examine how soft capture, procedural villains, and meta-capture have successfully crushed popular legislation from the 2009 public option to the 2022 rail strike. More importantly, we look at how this machinery is finally starting to break under pressure, and exactly what you can do to push it over the edge.\n\nSources\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1cNjOLpKRVQISiwg_LuXRShlIOhYtyMt3VzTxAHwRdLg/edit?usp=sharing",
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