The Democratic minority leader was asked about opposition to his leadership from new members and said the “issue is not me. I’ll be re-elected as majority leader. The issue is focusing on the American people and what they want.”
The Democratic minority leader was asked about opposition to his leadership from new members and said the “issue is not me. I’ll be re-elected as majority leader. The issue is focusing on the American people and what they want.”
I was about to say you’re completely right but something dawned on me. Let me know what you think:
No matter who is Speaker and Senate Majority Leader for the next 2 years, next to nothing is getting done, and the damage done by Trump will persist long after these 2 years sad to say. Why? Because there is no filibuster-proof majority, let alone a supermajority consensus capable of overriding Trump’s veto power. So the best we can do is limit the damage of Trump.
And we all know how knee-jerk reactive the electorate is. They’ll blame leadership come 2 years when things still aren’t fixed.
So what to do. Let Schumer and Jeffries ride this fallout, and then during ‘28 primaries, leverage this internally during the Democratic Primaries to leapfrog AOC to Schumer’s US Senate spot and have someone like – oh say Mamdani – run for Jeffries’ seat (just spitballing).
You can’t have our mayor. Out of our cold dead hands
It’s an interesting idea but unfortunately is just a path to having the same fascists rebrand over the next two years and pick back where they left off, gaining momentum to win in 2028.
Jeffries and Schumer-style politics is to turn invisible and wait, make speeches that are academic and milquetoast and that people forget before each sentence is even over. All that’ll do is let everyone forget that every single GOP lawmaker was actively destroying the country, and leave it to Fox News to rewrite blame to the “do nothing” Democratic Congress.
The Democrats need to constantly fight the next two years even when they won’t win. They need to not pull any punches and send bill after bill to be vetoed, impeach even where it’ll fail, defund and block every unconstitutional Executive Order and take it to the Supreme Court if needed, and remind everyone who the problem is, force the GOP to take positions. People can’t be let to forget.
Absolutely not. Jeffries is buddies with Kushner and funded by Israel.
And Schumer is a do nothing POS. I honestly think if I saw him or Trump standing next to each other I’d punch Schumer first