Winning.

Who could’ve predicted that telling people you are losing isn’t the biggest motivator?

x In USC/LATimes poll, Trump supporters' likelihood of voting has fallen a bunch over past week. His "rigged" message may depress his turnout. — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 13, 2016

And yes, it’s true! Telling people you are losing demotivates supporters! So why am I bringing this up? Because there remains a strain of weenie liberalism that is terrified at the idea of winning. You’ve seen them. You say, “This poll looks great for Democrats!” and inevitably, someone has to respond with, “Don’t get complacent! Fight like you’re 10 points down!”

Seriously, if people were motivated by being 10 points down, we would’ve crushed it in 2014, when we were actually 10 points down. Look, I’m not going to sit here and pretend we’re winning when we’re not. We didn’t pretend in 2014, or 2010. But when we are winning? We’ll be shouting it from the rooftops. And embrace it! Winning is good! It feels good, and it gets people excited and eager to join the bandwagon! That’s why the Yankees have so many fans, and Barcelona FC, and Man U!

We are winning today, and winning big. Wear it proudly. Rub it in the GOP’s faces. They nominated Donald Fucking Trump! Ha ha ha ha! So yeah, I don’t want to hear about how we need to pretend we are losing in order to motivate ourselves. The world doesn’t work that way. Leave the loser talk to Donald Trump, so that he and his godforsaken party get properly obliterated this November.

Thank you.

p.s. Telling people their vote doesn’t matter because rich people have bought our democracy also doesn’t work to motivate people into voting.