what they want, their campaign wet dream, is to run a campaign against a candidate so unpopular that they dont have to do anything or promise us anything and get to just coast through their term renaming post offices. this is the dream of the people leading the opposition party
fr, with how vicious they get towards anyone too left bc that means they might have to do work, shows they're capable of action but don't care about any of us lol
They only care about their real constituents: corporate interests and Israel.
Democrats are wedded to Neo-liberalism. It’s the same political theory shared by Republicans, so it’s impossible for them to go to the mat over kitchen table issues. Their solution is the same as Republicans. Throw money at corporations.
You'd think they'd learn after this exact strategy did not work in 2016.
But they are also BAD at figuring out what kind of candidate would be unpopular. Maybe everyone is, but we ended up here.
This is the Chuck Schumer Special! He's absolutely convinced that if he just sits back with a smirk on his face, surely this time the public will figure things out without him and put the Democrats back in power!
You have distilled the @mikiesherrill.bsky.social campaign down to its essence
Also @adamsmith.house.gov , a useless puppet parroting Chris Rufo propaganda while masquerading as a "progressive".
Yes, that's been the goal since January just be quiet and let the other side do terrible shit. It's infuriating to hear, we don't have any power when every time the script is flipped the GOP stop shit to a crawl. I think it's why Fed Dems hate Mamdani so much because he's making them look bad.
Not to mention obvious cash grabs going on in the Senate. Schumer caving on the Continuing Resolution because his Wall Street buddies told him it was no good. Or Cory Booker doing his 25 hour filibuster book commercial and also voting Jared Kushner's dad into Ambassadorship. weaksauce.
That is literally Carvilles strategy
I mean, they got this in 2020, they can't get lightning more than twice, hubris!
Except they aren't even good at running against Trump by pointing to all the bad things he does.
exactly...the Dems are for sure a RWing party now...we need a good socialist party with people who have integrity & honesty...but no one wants to get going on that...i like Mamdani.
This is not how you reach women readers.
Nah. Theyre confused, burnt, and given bad advise. Rather, shitty opponents who cant muster votes is what we NEED But yeah, its the other AOC 2.0 problem Mamdani has swirling around him
It wouldn’t matter how much they speak out, our national news media would never report it. I blame the ills of this country on the media and journalists that lost their balls and the democrats who are constantly looking for their “perfect” candidate so they spend their days attacking their own.
FWIW maybe their role model is Labour UK which got swept massively into office following 14 years of right wing rule, but since they purged everyone in left Labour and refused to do anything different, they are now so unpopular they will now be succeeded by the actual nationalist far right
Dem leadership seem to want to run a campaign where Trump just spirals and self deports.
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And they’re not even out there doing anything to make the opposition more unpopular! Remember when you had a bunch of Dem senators making a stink about CECOT and it was doing real damage to Trump’s popularity, then they just decided it was too confrontational and that they needed to wind it down?
They have literally held hundreds of town halls in red districts not their own. The TX Dems. Press conferences, rallies, local events, billboards, ads, interviews, etc. Hell, Schumer just toured through multiple counties in NY on a “How Trump Screwed You” tour. What specifically are you asking for?
They don't know. They're suffering from oxygen deprivation from having their heads so far up their asses for so long.
Do you remember that white people still chose the Republican party?
Do you remember that a significant part of the republican voters are brown and/or immigrants that then acted surprised when the grand cheeto did exactly what he said he would do?
it was overwhelmingly white people. This is a whiteness problem, not a "blame on all sides"
Of course it is, it has always been. However, what's new and alarming here is the ever-increasing amount of people from marginalized groups with so much self-hate that they vote republicans thinking they won't be targeted because they're "special"
That part! They need to get their asses out there & fix this mess THEY created.
So what? What matters is total votes, not absolute majorities of X group. If that did, Republicans would always win in the modern era because most white people vote for them and whites are a majority
This is flatly wrong. What century do you fucktards live in? Not every white person is a virulent racist like yall are.
Not just white. It’s a combination of white and Christian. It’s the latter that sustains the racism, not the whiteness.
Yep, the biggest weakness of the democrats is they are obsessed with winning over Republicans rather than rallying or expanding thier base.
You forgot their lack of a spine @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repdelbene.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @judiciarydems.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @governor.ca.gov S. Korea this 💩
The base is Black people. So part of "American" culture is to be anti- anything associated with Black people. That's also where the fake energy in the "independents" comes from... they hate Democrats, just like their dads and bosses. It's just another way to fit in with the culture.
You dummy, the dem base is a large coalition, that's what they hate about it. It's black people, it was Latinos, it's students and muslims and basically anyone but white men. They have been fighting tooth and nail to kick out their voters in favor of trying to win like 2 or 3 white male votes.
Hey, chill, pretty sure the three of us are all on the same side & criticizing the same people for mostly the same things.
The fact that they democratic leadership actively despises thier base probably doesn't help in that regard.
Proof of this or more of your baseless whinging?
This whole thread is absolute bullshit. Half of the posts originate with MAGA and Russia, the rest are fucking ‘Bernie Bros’ still pissed about Hillary winning the primary. JFC!!
This has to be satire.....
Pretty sure this person is just here to start shit.
The stories od the Harris campaign bragging about all the voting blocks they didn't want during the campaign? While they knew they were down in literally every swing state. White they knew biden was on track to maybe get 100 electoral votes by January and the dems focused on right wing immigration?
I honestly think a big part of What Happened was that the consultant class really convinced themselves that 2024 was gonna be the year suburban white women flipped.
They ran on it! They bragged about losing student voters and anti war voters and latino voters and said that muslims didn't want to vote for dems anyway. (90% turnout for biden btw.) They hate the people who vote dem. They hired a Richard hannania nepo baby buddy to run a billion dollar pac.
They lost and immediately went on tour blaming minorities and saying they were basically genetically too anti woman for dems to have a chance. Right after Sheinbaum cleaned up in Mexico. They will gladly lose to preserve their ideology's status and we can't afford that.
They got sharp upticks in special election performance post-Dobbs but my suspicion is that they thought they were getting crossover Rs but were really getting low-propensity Ds.
That's a lot more likely than "the people who think we literally burn aborted fetuses to run electricity in dc decided they want to vote democrag now."
They literally chose genocide over their base
Hope that fairy tale helps you sleep better about helping to get Trump back into office.
If only genocide was at least as evil to libs as disloyalty to their cult is.
They say... as they watch their neighbors get shipped to Uganda and Gaza be turned into a resort... due to the path they encouraged for all Americans.
The fact that democrats fill their prisons with black people? That they fund the cops at the expense of everything else?
That they constantly strategize around what republicans like rather than what their base wants. You know what would have been a slam dunk, easy win for the Biden administration? Pot legalization.
drug warrior Biden never would have gone for that, and if Harris did then I expect it'd end up being abandoned immediately after the election like how Obama campaigned on "codify Roe v Wade" and then did absolutely nothing about it
Former Democrat VP candidate Joe fucking Lieberman filibustered the ACA to remove single payer.
The refusal to kill the filibuster during obama's first term doomed this country
The “base” is more than 12% of the fucking country you idiot.
You know what the base will never be? The base will never be people who vote over 70% Republican in every general election since the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964
Where the fuck is that happening besides your fucking imagination. Enjoy the facism ya dumb fucks!
In the US, for pretty much my entire lifetime. With the exception of 2008, the democrats build thier campaigns around trying to find a political center and peal off republicans. See how far right the democrats moved on immigration or the downplaying of trans issues last campaign.
It looked like it worked once in 1992 because there was a spoiler candidate and Dems have been chasing it as the One Strategy to Rule Them All ever since.
I mean it did just work in 2020.
Define "work" in the context of lasting political accomplishments
Move the goal posts more before trying to hand out homework prof
Well, I mean, what did the Democrats accomplish between 2021-2023 that Trump hasn't torn down? Or, can't tear down if he feels like it? Plus, to your point, these same leaders are following the same strategy as last time: what makes you think the party won't repeat the same mistakes next time?
I never made that claim.
So you were being vacuous.
How do you mean?
You opened your mouth, demanded our attention, but you won't even commit to having made a claim.
How did my response to someone else demand your attention?
You guys are so exhausting.
waiting for your opponent to make a mistake is a great way to do nothing
Whoa, whoa, whoa, they want their failsons and faildaughters to also be making bank off the text messaging donation grift too
Exactly. And then they wonder why their approval ratings are in the toilet.
So another Shrub. Well they got that and more. I guess we're going to get another milquetoast moderate like Obama. Yay.
this was the democratic campaign strategy that got Larry Hogan reelected as governor of Maryland in 2018 his opponent's entire platform was "I have a (D) after my name", which is insufficient even in a year where the dems flipped 41 seats in the house on the highest midterm turnout in a century
Ben Jealous did the unforgivable sin of working with the Bernie campaign in 2016, causing state Dems to withhold their support or outright say that Hogan wouldn't be that bad.
I'm no fan of the state party apparatus (Donna Edwards got absolutely screwed in 2016) but even bearing that in mind Jealous ran a very lackluster campaign
Renaming Post Offices? Bernie Sanders? I can promise you, Democrats usually aspire to get more done than Bernie Sanders does.
The blue LOVES vote-blue-no-matter-who. I have no choice but to do this, sadly, so we must primary the folks who look like sellouts. We need to weed out our side.
Complete dereliction of duty. These fucks need to face their own trials for sitting back and shrugging their shoulders when fascism came for the constitution.
Ah... "they" Really. "They" are the worst, right? Fuck off with your imaginary "they."
Their version of campaigning on "kitchen table issues" is talking about how difficult things are without offering any solutions. They don't make concrete promises because they don't want to be held accountable.
Then don’t vote for them… YOU SHOULD RUN since you know everything so much better 🙄
They dream of all being Amy klobuchar