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

Ohhhhhh. OK. Thanks for the correction.

But again, we already know that the Trump administration ignores laws like they don't exist.

 

Maine has a lot of old people living there. Quick search shows that it's the oldest state population wise in the US.

Makes sense.

 

Even more strongly stated: the Republicans are giddy to inflict suffering for the sake of a political fight.

 

No.

I just saved you all a lot of time.

 

I discounted that guy since he's likely not to actually win the primary.

 

Yeah. I think he's ahead in the polls because people aren't paying attention right now. Once the election starts to kick off, he'll likely drop in the polls as voters notice his issues.

 

You’ve lost me here…Hakeem Jeffries is not white. And then you say younger congressmen don’t have the stomach for this fight, but when I look at the Hateful Eight, I see a lot of old people. I’m very confused.

 

One of Mamdani’s protoges is talking about challenging Jeffries in the primary.

Democrats having two New Yorkers leading them in Congress, under a president from New York, where the NYT is objectively pro fascist, is a problem. I noted it at the time when Jeffries replaced Pelosi (who herself is from San Francisco.). For all the talk about Republicans being monolithic, their recent leaders have been from all over. Democrats’ current and recent leaders are almost all from NYC, the Bay Area, or Chicago: Durbin, Obama, Harris, Hillary, Jeffries, Schumer, Pelosi.

 

I wouldn't make too many assumptions about that. The guy comes across well and has a good backstory. Even the 'nazi tattoo' stuff is mostly bullshit in the sense that it didn't seem to have been raised when he was cleared to work in various war zones.

Much more importantly, he's giving the dem base a target in a way that most of the corporate democrats refuse. That might be more telling as we go along.

I'd suggest waiting to see how things develop before making too many grand predictions.

 

Damn you went there.

 

Josh Marshall has a list of essential items that Democrats need to support in the future, or they should be primaries like a pro life Senator in the 1990s (I’m pegging that era as when the parties fully sorted in abortion.)

I would add something about campaigns and campaigning. I’m talking about campaign finance, and foreign influence, and ease of voting, the whole package.

I would also add one thing that’s important, but not legislative: attitudinally, I’m going to favor Democrats who are hostile to shitty reporting, which is most reporting. Work the goddamn refs for ********’s sake.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-status-interview-or-how-to-write-up-a-senate-purge-list

 

If I had to put money on it, he will be the nominee with ease. This week's decision by Senate Democrats will have made it an easy bet. In my echo chamber? The opposition research about the tattoos and the reddit posts have been met with two responses.

1) I don't care. I'm voting for the guy. No more senior citizen senators
2) I have reservations, I am not ruling him out. Here are my reservations. I would like to be able to vote for him. I don't think Mills will be able to beat Susan Collins.

While it definitely hurt his momentum, the prevailing wisdom is that Platner has a better chance of beating Collins than Mills. I think the story to watch out for and this is everywhere is the obvious divide on the Left between the under 45 crowd and the rest. It would be really nice if Baby Boomers would start to think about people other than themselves for the FIRST time in their voting history, especially considering they won't be here much longer.

 

Boomers SHOULD BE offering to paint the goddamned apartments of every young person in America because they sacrificed their precious youth during the pandemic to give old people a couple more years on this planet. Instead, the old folks vote to give tax cuts to whomever promises to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere. Die already.