The Killing of George Floyd and the Final Fracturing of the Democratic Party, Labor, and Civil Rights Coalition

George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death also killed an historic but uneasy alliance among the Democratic Party, labor unions, and the civil rights movement. The reaction to his death is ending the last vestiges of the historic New Deal coalition that defined progressive politics in American for at least 50 years, ushering in an era where it now appears that the Democratic Party and the civil rights community are at odds with labor and unions.

Historically, the New Deal coalition from the 1930s that defined the Democratic Party was composed of labor unions, farmers, working class, and increasing people of color. It was a coalitional party weaving together a variety of interests, primarily focused on economic and class issues. From the 1930s to 1960s it fought mostly for minimum wages, workplace safety, and collective bargaining issues. The coalition produced significant gains improving the economic lot of its members and Americans in general, helping shrink, as Thomas Piketty noted, the rich-poor gap in America. This was the Old Left–class and economic focused.

Yet a valid criticism of this progressivism was the blind eye it cast on race. Many New Deal programs such as minimum wage laws excluded southern Black sharecroppers, or unions were criticized for excluding Blacks. The Democratic Party in the South, which dominated that region from the Civil War to the 1960s, was notorious for the White Primary Supreme Court cases where the former fought hard to exclude Blacks.
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From the comments in a recent Moon of Alabama essay:

This is not about DEFEATING Trump... It is about DEFEATING any potential for ordinary people come together and promote the notion of government of people by the people for the people. democrats, can always manage Trump for another 4 years.. The establishment and the billionaire class, can't stand the public/people have a say in their own republic.

I think the title is spot on because Pelosi has killed everything that the democrats once stood for. Of course she did not do it alone because she got plenty of help from Reid, Schumer and Obama and so many others. But Pelosi holds a lot of power and although she and Obama hid behind republican obstructionism during Obama's tenure her blatant cowtowing to Mitch McConnell is plain to see. One of the most blatant ones was on DACA where she insisted that the Dreamers had to have protection before she would even think of meeting McConnell half way on funding for Trump's wall. The Dreamers actually believed and you could see the wind go out of them when there was no deal, but Trump got $5 billion for it anyway. Where did she find the money? Wherever they find money for things their donors want. And yes it is the big corporations and banks that are investing billions in less than 30 miles of wall.

Jimmy Dore calls Pelosi a Nazi which to me is on of the worst things one could be called. But she had been finding all kinds of money for death and mayhem, but none at all to keep people here alive with universal health care. Even now in the middle of the epidemic she is bailing out the insurance companies by paying people's COBRA payments which means they are still at the mercy of the insurance companies. And Trump has said all medical bills from COVID will be paid by the federal government. When even Trump is to your left on human rights, and yes UHC is a human right, then what else can you call Pelosi?

Off Topic:

What the hell Obama? George Bush RESPECTED THE RULE OF LAW? In one universe is Torture not against the law? In what world is invading a country on FALSE PRETENSES not againt the Nuremberg Law? It is the ultimate WAR CRIME you dithering idiot. And for those IN THE BACK Obama also invaded 3 countries which was AGAINST THE RULE OF LAW. Quick how many countries had Trump invaded? And who the hell even knows how many bombs Trump dropped every year since he took office? We do know that Obama dropped close to 27,000 during his last year in office. And as Saagar noted in his radar we are going back to the good old days of the Obama presidency. Except the Ol' Cobweb-Cranium elected will not be in charge of it. (h/t the liberal moonbat)

h/t Azazello

Here is the video that she talks about Hillary wanting to get back at Putin for ruining her chance of being president. Good lord she has talked herself into believing the lie she made up.

Hmm the Clintons didn't have any problems taking money from Russia during her tenure as the blood thirsty Secretary of State where she used her foundation to grift as much money from people and foreign governments who wanted her to run interference at her State Department.
And that both she and Bill got money just before she made a deal in Russia... but nothing was wrong with that. All SOS in the past have done that. Right?