Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power,
Well this agenda is off to a horrible start. Can’t they find anyone with a shred of credibility left instead?
said the Democrats will be united “right out of the gate” on reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks,
Fuck’s sake, could you at least pretend to be in favor of Medicare for All for just a little bit? Like even if it’s just a negotiating tactic to make these tax breaks happen
reversing Republican Medicaid cuts,
Y’know if we had Medicare for All we wouldn’t need to worry about Medicaid or all the bullshit red state governments pull with it
holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.
I actually have no problems with the substance or message here, but I hope they’re preparing to defund the military and customs enforcement respectively when Trump just ignores their votes and his supreme court Calvinballs an excuse for him, because otherwise those votes are just going to be for show
They need Congress and Senate and by a meaningful amount. A few seat majority will get nothing done. Republicans will find way to flip reps, bribe a few or use procedure, lawsuits to stall everything. You need like 3/5 majority or more
Already making excuses for not even trying to do a fucking thing already I see.
It is easy to make plans, the issue is nobody trust Democrats ability to accomplish anything
Stop acting like Jefferies controls anything…
He got elected because Jamie Harrison’s DNC was willing to bankrupt any state party with reps who didn’t fall in line.
Not only do neoliberals not control the DNC or Victory Fund, Martin drained that shit and gave it back to state parties, which is why we’re “suddenly” flipping a shit ton of seats, we’re actually trying to win majorities so anDem president can get shit down.
The neoliberal goal was always obstructing progress and siding with Republicans for the wealthy.
But the only way neoliberalism gains any ground again, is if idiots stop voting D because of billionaire propaganda
I’ve gotta say even normally progressive and anti-Trump MSNBC runs smack segments against Ken Martin gives me confidence that Democrats should let him cook and bring the DNC into a new chapter.
Be careful with the whole “enemy of my enemy” thing, billionaire owned media not liking him is a good sign, but it should never be the only thing to look at.
The big thing is he basically doesn’t have to do anything and he understands that…
We don’t want a DNC that tries to guide the party, that’s been the problem for decades.
We need a DNC whose only two concerns are:
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Get a Dem into the oval
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Get majorities in the House and Senate
It’s that fucking easy to make progress. And we could have been here ~18 years earlier if Obama had just appointed a progressive DNC chair in 09.
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That plan: Whine about how you can’t get anything done with Trumps veto power, so you’ll just have to continue to capitulate to his every whim while you fundraise on your failures…
Yup. That’s what I’m expecting from our milquetoast Democratic leadership.
Day 1: lunch Day 2: do nothing Days 3-700: do nothing Day 701: send a very tense letter
Good start, but time to also have a 2 year plan and start drafting Project 2029* if no Democrat has already.
The two most important questions being: “What concrete differences do Americans want to see in their lives compared to before and now?” and “How will we (extending to the whole world) create a system that prevents reactionary right-wing psycopath billionaire-funded culture war zone-flooding politics to pave the way back to fascism?”.
*Project 2029 seems to be a thing, but at first glance seems like a scaled down and focused effort on a couple issues, explictly not designed to be an all-encompassing vision as the Republican version was. I don’t think it goes far enough, so either it needs to have more sections added, or the Democratic Socialist and neolib organizations each start putting their thoughts in their own treatises to compare notes later.
