“And all you progressives are shit outta luck, again.” - Friends of the DNC
Downvoters gotta stop pretending this isn’t happening.
Democrats have long been a big tent party, but this is just the anti maga party vs the maga party. Is it a winning strategy? Why not just run on policies that excite the base?
Democrats have long been a big tent party
Both Big Two parties are big tent parties and the composition of each party has changed sporadically. The electorate today is mostly-reversed from when it was in the early 19th century, where the Democratic Party was the party of the rural areas, and the Republican Party of the cities.
These semi-stable general political configurations are called “party systems”; we’re currently in the sixth of these since the country was founded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Party_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Party_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Party_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Party_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Party_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System
It’s possible that we’ll see another shift.
Haley is as bad as trump, she’s just not saying the quiet parts out loud.
Normalizing her as “moderate” simply because she’s not trump only moves the Overton window towards the right.
Biden needs all the votes he can get. I just don’t know why they spend so much time appealing to Republicans who will never vote D instead of courting independents or anyone on the left.
Her public policies were basically just Trump’s, although she didn’t seem like someone that wanted a dictatorship like Trump clearly wants. That’s a big difference. A lot of her voters backed her simply because they still want a democracy, not a dictatorship.
These folks are going to have to decide what’s more important to them. Far right wing policies, or killing what made America great, being able to elect your leaders.
although she didn’t seem like someone that wanted a dictatorship like Trump clearly wants.
I’d be surprised if a single Republican on the national stage doesn’t want that…
Some are just smart enough to not say it till it’s happened. That makes them more dangerous, not less.
Because they’re Diet Republicans. Years ago, Republicans were conservatives and Democrats were liberals. After Reagan trounced them in the 80s, the Democrats decided it was more important to be more like Republicans and have become more and more conservative with each election. Now Republicans are full on fascists and Democrats are the 1980s Republicans. And liberals have become 1980s conservatives. There is no mainstream representation for anyone who is actually left (i.e. communists, socialists, etc.).
I mean. AOC. Bernie. They’re pretty left and they’re in office.
I get being cynical, for true. But don’t give up. Winning the election is a new start. We can fix it.
I respectively disagree. IMO, they’re centrists, Neither are communists nor socialists.
Both campaigned on being left. But what have their actions been since they got into office? Campaigning and in-office actions are not always the same.
In Bernie’s case he used to be left, but when Biden got in office he has bent the knee and been milquetoast centrist. And AOC is Pelosi 2.0. Doesn’t care about anything except making money and protecting her own image. She’s full of shit. In any other country she’d be right wing.
Biden to the Democratic base: “Fuck you.”
This guy wants to lose.
