Lincoln prior to becoming president was a one term congressman, and he was one of the best presidents in US history. Worry about congress and senate, as well as building a movement that can pressure pencil necked Liberals to actually push out legislation and replacing career politicians
Oh my god don’t even get me started. I’m from a majority Hispanic working class country in California. Pete is the exact candidate who would crash and burn here. We need someone who is independent minded and savvy with communication while ALSO HAVING SUBSTANCE yk like Bernie or Ro Khanna
Jeff this take is completely stupid, in the eyes of the American people both sides do fucking suck fat balls. And the Democrats should absolutely be getting their fair share of criticism for pushing career politicians who have no ability to communicate and lack any morals beyond desire for power.
Oh yeah not because Obama was a shit president who betrayed his base, leading to low democratic turnout in the midterms. It’s totally Jon Stewart making fun of DC politics and Conservatives.
I’m genuinely so baffled that people think that experience denotes being a good president, or person, or that it means being effective at getting shit done.
Also by this logic isn’t trump perfectly qualified for the office, I mean for gods sake he was president for 4 years. Experience means nothing, all these offices and institutions mean nothing There is only organized people and organized money in this country and everything else in secondary.
Also I’m not focusing on Biden exclusively, I think we have had nothing but horrible dishonest, and ineffective leadership in the US for 60ish years. Bernie and RFK are the only guys in like the last 60 years who were ideal people for the kind of transformational change we need
Sure, but the infrastructure bill was massively underfunded (essentially only 550 ish billion of new funding) and the Biden admin was horrible at outreach and promoting their few meager accomplishments. And what Biden did to Gaza is hitlerian, he should be sent to The Hague w Bush and Trump
Guys trust let’s run another career politician, independents aren’t real let’s run candidates exclusively for the Democratic elite. Anyways in seriousness STEWART2028 BABYYYYY!!!!! (unless AOC runs)
Idk if your from California or not but my read is that outside of urban centers people HATE newsom and view him as an ineffective elitist. Which to me translates to being sandbagged as a “typical” democrat which is the same problem Kamala ran into
Yeah honestly I agree, people think the presidency is the most important job when really congress and winning all these local races is where it matters My argument for Jon is that he would both diminish the presidencies importance in the eyes of the people and work with activists
I also think I’m just so tired of people thinking the presidency is the most important positon because it really isn’t. Congress and senate is where it matters, but more than that if we can’t create a grassroots progressive movement no real change will occur
Oh I’m sorry I misread that honestly, yeah but the main problem is that Pete isn’t a consistent person, and he just doesn’t have real support from independents. The last thing we need is someone who is popular among democratic elites which is what Pete is
This is a baffling take, Biden failed because he was a shitty two-faced career politician and so was Kamala Also they passed like 1 important bill in a 4 year period, don’t expect to be reelected just based on vague ideas of “progress” if that doesn’t mean material improvements for the US people
I mean it’s not like things were much better before 2016, The real issues aren’t “experience” it’s because Washington acts as a monolithic swamp where promises go to die and career politicians rule the day. For god sakes we only passed like 4 real bills from 2000-2016
Experience does not equal success, Obama and Biden both had massive governmental experience and their administrations both failed to stop Fascism from rising in the US, I don’t even thing Jon Stewart is the best possible candidate but people should be open to non-politicians running as dems
How are we ever going to improve as a party if we don’t criticize the people who have failed us and allowed fascism to take hold in our nation?
Corey, im not a maga person, im not even a moderate conservative, in fact im a new deal democrat who is tired of career politicians being trumpeted as the next great “savior of America” and then delivering nothing to the people
Yeah but literally nobody knows who tf James Talarico is, Jon Stewart has name recognition and isn’t married to any specific ideological faction of the Democratic party, and has real anti-establishment credibility
The last thing we need is a career politician running
Yes because having 40+ year career politicians totally worked the last time and totally didn’t destroy peoples faith in democracy and allowed a literal fascist to be elected
I mean look at the disaster that was the Biden administration, he was literally a career politician with 40 plus years of experience, the last thing we need is a politician running the Democratic Party
Pete Buttigieg is a spineless establishment sock puppet with very little appeal outside of democratic elite circles. He was literally an employee of McKinsey?? Good luck trying to win midwesterners with him
Probably around the time that our very social fabric was destroyed by Trump and if you can’t accept that experience doesn’t matter anymore and is often to a negative to people we are never going to get a democrat in the White House again
You are a MAGA psyop bro Let me guess was Bernie also bad because he was a “straight white guy”
Yes because the reason trump is evil is because he’s “inexperienced” not because he represents a complete moral bankruptcy and a fascist ideology that seeks to demonize half of the country. Democratic establishment politicians need to gtfo
My argument would be that we are literally on the precipice of any faith in our democratic processes being stamped out, There is literally no politician that could restore faith in our institutions, we need someone who both isn’t a politician and genuinely has a consistent set of moral beliefs is
He looks like a pinhead, has a tic tac shaped head goddamn
Yeah I feel like if we can’t get literally ANY visionary leaders of the ground and at least attempting policy, then how tf can we convince the American people that a democratic vision for our future is possible. This seems now less abt ideology and now about willingness to try.
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