"They hate us"
If ever there was going to be a grassroots rebellion within the Democratic Party, now is the time.
"Any Democratic incumbent who thinks they can rest on their laurels and not show their constituents that they are fighting like hell is making a mistake," said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.).
A senior House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer an even blunter assessment, told Axios: "The people that have been voting ... with Republicans on these messaging bills are people that could get primaried."
"These groups are paying attention to that," the lawmaker said.The senior House Democrat told Axios that a colleague called them after a town hall crying and said: "They hate us. They hate us."
"Among the things I got [at a town hall] were: 'Will you call for Chuck Schumer to resign?'" the lawmaker said. "Last week I got: 'You need to tell your leadership they had no right rebuking Democrats for being strong at'" Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress.
"Another thing I got was: 'Democrats are too nice. Nice and civility doesn't work. Are you prepared for violence?'"What they're saying: "The level of exasperation is comparable [to the Tea Party] for sure, even if the issues and policies are very different," said Huffman.
Another difference is that the Tea Party had wealthy backers. This one doesn't.
A Quinnipiac poll found that just 40% of Democrats approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing, down from 75% a year earlier.
We're going to find out soon if it's real because primary challenges must start early, and the Dems have shown that they have no intention of respecting their base.
“I’ve always believed that competition and primaries are healthy,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told The Hill. “No one is entitled to their seat. Voters want change and are fed up with the old guard in American politics.“I expect many new generation leaders to run for the House and Senate in 2026 and 2028,” Khanna said. “Democracy depends on renewal.”
...While Litman’s organization doesn’t handle congressional races, on Friday — the day the Senate approved the GOP funding bill following Schumer’s announcement — there was a 200 percent increase in potential candidates looking to run for office, she said.Litman described a frustration brewing particularly among a young set of Democrats. “They’re looking at the last two months and beyond and they want to see leaders who define and reflect their outrage,” she said.
“If Democracy is literally under attack, act like it,” Litman added.
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I don't hear of anything the outraged actually wish to do
Yell and scream? So what. I skipped the inaugural after the backslapping bit during the walk in, not a fan of Trump or of what he might have said. From the news clips I saw my party held up some kind of ping pong paddles and some screaming guy was taken out by an officer. Not a very good look. Oh, and pink pan suits.
The people upset, wanting the party to "do something" are exactly the nut cases that lose us elections. DEIer, genderising, blue haired, illegal worker importers.
Primaries don't do much, except maybe lose another seat. Two more congressmen and we would control what legislation is brought to the house floor. Two seats aren't won via primarying, they are won from Republicans by candidates who support the issues important to the district. Guns, immigration, working class jobs.
Marie Gluesenkamp and Jared Golden won in places that were way Trump. They vote their districts, but because they are Dems, and caucus with the Dems, two more just like them would give us a lot more power than all the screaming cat ladies in the world.
"Us"?
So when you report back to your task-masters in the Party, what do you tell them about c99%?
"To watch the leader of the most powerful nation on earth endorse and finance a genocide prompts not a passing kind of disgust or anger, but a severance." -- Omar el Akkad
not sure if the "us" being referred to
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includes 'us' (as In here)
if past posts are any indication
of present intention
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
You've covered all the GOP talking points
You forgot to include groomers and pedophiles.
Have you actually seen the Bernie/AOC rallies?
If ever there was a time for a grassroots rebellion
within the Democratic Party, it was nine years ago. The present-day party is more than capable of crushing and/or co-opting any such rebellion. Here's the current scene:
Joe And Jill Biden Reportedly Try To Quietly Weasel Back Into Democratic Leadership
Maybe he can stare off into space like he did in the first debate to the raucous cheering of a well-paid crowd...
"To watch the leader of the most powerful nation on earth endorse and finance a genocide prompts not a passing kind of disgust or anger, but a severance." -- Omar el Akkad
Joe Jill-oh
or is it jello joe?
They screwed their pooch already.
Comeback? Already gone.
The grift brand is past marketing miracles.
The dims tried that with Kamala.
Didn't work. More seem awake now.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
what do NAZI's care? They
what do NAZI's care? They wont bow before their victims.
California offers a fine example and I invite you to watch as
Gavin becomes a biggerbetter Trump in hopes of 28.
The Democrats across the country will be building gas showers for mouthy students.
What is there to miss let alone salvage?
fool's errand.
gonna have to be a different game unless you can reverse their rules.
LOL
It's the Dems that are the NAZIs, not the guy throwing NAZI salutes, and with christian nationalist tattoos. That defies court orders and pardons actual NAZIs.
I like how you are so concerned about Dems cracking down on student protestors, while Trump is literally deporting legal residents who have committed no crimes.
AOC's district shifted 25% more in Trump's direction.
She can still draw the wealthy white folks, but immigrants, young people, and minorities shifted right. Sanders rails against the oligarchs, but it is the elites in the crowds who have made off with the paychecks of the working class.
There are 750 billionaires in the US, but 1.3 million families in the 1%. David Shor thinks Trump might have won 18 to 20 year old black men.
Rich people are angry, and they aint going to take it anymore.
@ban nock Well, there are a LOT
Well, there are a LOT more of us in the NOT-RICH category than the RICH. We are all not stupid, semi-literate rubes either. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Seriously?
You are saying that the people showing up at the Sanders protests are all wealthy? The tens of thousands of people who are angry at the billionaires and want M4A, to defend the DOE, and tax the rich are the "elites"?
@gjohnsit
Hidden Tribes
I'm a big fan of Sanders, one of the few people who allows the words "working class" to pass his lips. I'm glad Sanders is still out there doing his thing. AOC, not as much.
By DOE I'd assume Department of Education whose main function is to manage student loans. A person with a bachelors earns $50 to $70 thousand dollars more on average than a person with a high school degree, and because those graduates are either lazy or stupid or both they want us to pay their loans. Nope.
Big rallies are a lot of fun for some people. Trump loves them too.
I'd love M4A, or even better socialized medicine and cut out the profit motive all together. But we can't even pay the budget we have because we refuse to tax ourselves. The highest quintile has half the income, shouldn't we pay taxes? Suggest it and people say oh no, tax those billionaires. 25 million rich families are in the highest quintile, the poorest ones begin with an income of $155,000. Friday they showed up to rally in our state capital.
cut to the quick
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civilized industrial nations pay for the education of
upcoming generations for the investment in knowledge
and skill. Just as they pay for healthcare to have a healthy
workforce. What is it you do not seem to grasp?
Sounds like US exceptionalism has overtaken an ability
to rationally compare various outcomes.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
-- August Hare
We have a very different idea of what is an elitist
Trump has 13 billionaires in his cabinet. Combine that with Trump's cash and his owner, Musk, and you have as much money as the entire working class.
Meanwhile you appear to believe that the real elites are college professors and scientists working for for NIH and NOAA.
Which of these two groups have more control of your life?
BTW, without the DOE you can say goodbye to special education classes in public schools, and about 1/6th of all school teachers in the country. Especially in poor rural communities.
I hope it is the time
In '68 it looked like the time. HHHumphrey got foisted on us (drat those hippies, he woulda won if not for Mcarthy siphoning off votes!) and after then the primaries got a lot more democratic. Of course the "leadership" kept putting their thumb on the scales to bring it all back in line. Todays younger candidates were probably kids during Clinton (The First Black President!!) and grew up listening to democrats making inspiring speeches, promising great things, and then failing to do much of anything to make American lives better. Over and over and over.
Back then it was work within the system to change the system. Instead the system changed them. It's gone so far off the map now, I don't see how to get back.