> “What would it actually accomplish?” she said from the animal sanctuary she now runs near Joshua Tree in the California desert. “Our strategy didn’t work last time, so let’s not keep doing the same thing.”
The heck you mean It didn’t work last time he lost re-election and we had an obscenely blue midterm
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Busy dooming, myself included at times.
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Some excerpts:
“But there is little consensus in Democratic ranks over how best to confront Trump and mobilise opposition to his policies. After his first term, a simple call for “resistance” to Trumpism proved enough to rally voters — particularly swing voters in suburban districts — to their side.”
“But some are nevertheless unimpressed by the timidity of the party’s initial response. “Last time the Democrats brought a knife to a gunfight,” Marsh said. “Now there’s not even a knife.” In particular, she said, there was “no one voice leading the charge against Trump and what the Republicans are doing”. Democrats lack a figure with the stature and authority of Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker who dominated her party when he first took office in 2017. And there is no automatic mechanism for them to select a new leader who could be Trump’s chief antagonist. Some polls show Kamala Harris remains the country’s most prominent Democrat, but she has been wounded by her defeat to Trump in November, holds no elective office, and has been keeping a low profile in recent months. Low morale continues to dog the party. “The word that gets thrown around a lot right now is exhaustion,” said Kyle Kondik, a non-partisan analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Much of the resistance provoked by Trump’s first victory arose because “it was seen as a fluke”, he said. This time he “won much more clearly”, gaining a plurality of the popular vote.”
“Democrats also understand American public opinion has shifted rightward since Trump’s first term. Four years ago there was widespread — and bipartisan — disgust at the January 6 2021 siege of the Capitol. But a poll by CBS this month showed only 30 per cent of Republicans strongly disapproved of the attack, compared to 51 per cent in January 2021.”
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It’s really simple, frankly. Fight what you can with lawyers and lawsuits, and figure out a winning message we can win with for the midterms. Simple as’.
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We’re tired boss
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It still exists and it will be back in force. However what I am perplexed by is what happened to the news media who I thought had a negativity and anti-incumbent doom bias but keep publishing “What’s wrong with Democrats” articles long after it’s Republicans who are in charge now.
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We’re old and tired
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A lot of liberals are tired and exhausted and feel defeated now. However I think if the Trump admin or Republicans seriously overreaches, think something like having a national abortion ban be passed *or* enforcing Comstock fully to pretty much ban abortion nationwide *or* a fetal personhood ruling gets enacted by the courts and also kind of the ACA being overturned and repealed, I think libs and Democrats will be energized again.
The one factor though vs 2017 is the media is considerably more Trump-friendly now than in 2017, so even if Trump and Republicans do the above, I doubt they will cover it as strongly this time.
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> “What would it actually accomplish?” she said from the animal sanctuary she now runs near Joshua Tree in the California desert. “Our strategy didn’t work last time, so let’s not keep doing the same thing.”
The heck you mean It didn’t work last time he lost re-election and we had an obscenely blue midterm
Busy dooming, myself included at times.
Some excerpts:
“But there is little consensus in Democratic ranks over how best to confront Trump and mobilise opposition to his policies. After his first term, a simple call for “resistance” to Trumpism proved enough to rally voters — particularly swing voters in suburban districts — to their side.”
“But some are nevertheless unimpressed by the timidity of the party’s initial response. “Last time the Democrats brought a knife to a gunfight,” Marsh said. “Now there’s not even a knife.” In particular, she said, there was “no one voice leading the charge against Trump and what the Republicans are doing”. Democrats lack a figure with the stature and authority of Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker who dominated her party when he first took office in 2017. And there is no automatic mechanism for them to select a new leader who could be Trump’s chief antagonist. Some polls show Kamala Harris remains the country’s most prominent Democrat, but she has been wounded by her defeat to Trump in November, holds no elective office, and has been keeping a low profile in recent months. Low morale continues to dog the party. “The word that gets thrown around a lot right now is exhaustion,” said Kyle Kondik, a non-partisan analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Much of the resistance provoked by Trump’s first victory arose because “it was seen as a fluke”, he said. This time he “won much more clearly”, gaining a plurality of the popular vote.”
“Democrats also understand American public opinion has shifted rightward since Trump’s first term. Four years ago there was widespread — and bipartisan — disgust at the January 6 2021 siege of the Capitol. But a poll by CBS this month showed only 30 per cent of Republicans strongly disapproved of the attack, compared to 51 per cent in January 2021.”
It’s really simple, frankly. Fight what you can with lawyers and lawsuits, and figure out a winning message we can win with for the midterms. Simple as’.
We’re tired boss
It still exists and it will be back in force. However what I am perplexed by is what happened to the news media who I thought had a negativity and anti-incumbent doom bias but keep publishing “What’s wrong with Democrats” articles long after it’s Republicans who are in charge now.
We’re old and tired
A lot of liberals are tired and exhausted and feel defeated now. However I think if the Trump admin or Republicans seriously overreaches, think something like having a national abortion ban be passed *or* enforcing Comstock fully to pretty much ban abortion nationwide *or* a fetal personhood ruling gets enacted by the courts and also kind of the ACA being overturned and repealed, I think libs and Democrats will be energized again.
The one factor though vs 2017 is the media is considerably more Trump-friendly now than in 2017, so even if Trump and Republicans do the above, I doubt they will cover it as strongly this time.