"he's an unstable aspiring dictator and all our lives and safety are imperiled every day, because we never know when his whims will have him turn his attention to us. the sooner he can be removed from power, the better."

I think an underrated part of the problem is they want to support him when he cracks down on pro-palestinian activists or bombs iran or rounds up unhoused people in DC. so blanket opposition becomes not an option.

It's really astounding that Jeffries spoke for nine hours on the House floor and produced not one viral video or memorable quote. Singularly ineffective communicator.

one of the benefits of this message is that its true, and so you get to repeat it every time his attention does turn to something new and unhinged, reinforcing just how true it is.

The problem isn't the message, it's the messengers. It's our misfortune that the Democrats selected their leaders in both houses of Congress to be essentially bribable coat racks.

That's just a feature of capitalism.

It's not, though! Donald Trump is capitalism incarnate in a horrifyingly real way, and he's a spectacularly effective messenger. In a much more low-key way for a much more benign kind of capitalism, so was Barack Obama. Schumer and Jeffries are failures of particular people in a particular party.