The Democratic Party in Trump's Fascist 2nd Term. Commentary, Ideas & Strategy (+ non Woketicism)

Not in our primaries.

I suspect one reason Schumer won’t retire is that he knows AOC will take his seat, and he can’t stand that. She continues to impress the hell out of me. She gave a speech in the last couple of days tying the rise in income inequality with the rise in the popularity of anti-democratic ideologies. Smart way to frame the issue.

 

If we go strawman vs strawman, what if the choice is fascist vs communist, who is the better choice?

France may have to make that choice in 18 months.

Here is a clip from the unfvck America college tour of a liberal influencer debating the future of the Democratic party. At minute 36 or so.Talking about illiberal ideology in the left wing of the party.

If that is who wins the Democratic primary.

I will then have to see how bad they fvck over the country with some of their RWord policies.

 

I suppose that, for the 'communist' choice, you are referring to Melenchon.

Words have been so emptied of their meaning, and the right and the far right (which are increasingly indistinguishable) have won the semantic battle so thoroughly, that we've come to believe that any left-wing group with even a slightly left-wing platform is necessarily communist.
Mitterrand was elected President in 1981 on a platform more radical than Melenchon's today. And yet, no serious person can consider Mitterrand a communist (a few did say so at the time: the right wing, and even Reagan, with considerable bad faith. Events quickly proved them wrong). This also says a lot, by the way, about the collapse of the Socialist Party, not so different from that of the Democrats in the US.

 

Interesting article on Dutch acceptance of Trumpism:
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/ruim-d...u-slechts-16-procent-op-hem-stemmen~a8080a35/

More than half of the Dutch partly support Trump's Maga ideology, yet only 16 percent would vote for him.
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Researcher and statistician Christopher Houtkamp calls the study unique, especially because of the systematic classification of different ideological currents within Maga. The research shows where the Dutch deviate from that ideology and where the most important fault lines lie.

 

A carnival float entitled 'Stormy Donald' will be one of the eye-catchers in Mainz's Rosenmontag parade on Monday.

 

Pardon?

 

Describing Trump as a fascist means I'm erecting a 'strawman', does it?

Well... it's a point of view I guess

Well, that too but I'm also a bit confused as to who is the 'communist' in the US we're meant to be 'scurred' of, unless it's one of the 12 year olds in the park he posted the video of. Is one of them going to be standing as a candidate for potus? I must have missed that

 

I don't think AOC could win the primary. NY state isn't exactly NYC.

 

She seems to have enough about her to realise what she needs to do so I wouldn't necessarily bet against her at this stage.

We'll see,

 

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Upstate Dems are more like Vermont Dems than, say, Michigan Dems or South Carolina Dems. She'll do at least as well with upstate Dems as she will with NYC Dems.

 

Recent polling suggest Mamdani won 1 out of every 10 Trump voters. I agree she isn't left enough to be able to match that. But hey! Looks like we know how to win elections moving forward and win people over from the right--->run economic populist candidates. I expect Talarico to do the same in Texas when he turns it blue. Weird how it's seeming like all of these progressive candidates are going to beat establishment Dems in the primary and then win in areas that the Democratic Party hasn't been able to win for awhile. It's almost like the base is further to the Left than the party is...But what do I know?

https://www.the-independent.com/new...ohran-mamdani-trump-voters-poll-b2882674.html

 

I happen to know a guy that works on cars in Detroit. Big leftist. Rave buddy of mine as you will. As a couple guys in the shop. Predominantly a Conservative space. If we ran someone there on Woke 2.0 (economic populism) instead of Woke 1.0. we've both agreed he could probably do some convincing.