Quote is from Fetterman, but he’s not wrong here.
Fetterman is an idiot
And a sellout. And a warmongering genocide apologist.
A Bush Era neocon cosplaying as a Democrat. But worse.
That said. The DNC is to blame. They’ve wanted to have their cake and eat it too for too long. They pretend to be on the side of working people but only pursue republican policy. Now they’re stuck. They have to move left or just accept republican control in perpetuity. (Which I don’t think really bothers them that much. The DNC is a Corp afterall.)
And a sellout. And a warmongering genocide apologist.
A Bush Era neocon cosplaying as a Democrat. But worse.
Warmongering and genocide apologia enjoy broad bipartisan support. Please don’t pretend that the genocide was opposed in the slightest by the democratic party.
All it takes for a democrat to become a republican is brain damage.
This is who he was before he was elected, but the VBNMW crowd thought they knew better
He’s not a republican. He’s a centrist.
Just like democratic party leadership.
The Democratic Party is centrist between moderate ideologies. Fetterman is centrist between the two parties.
Fetterman’s positions are those of the party: genocide. The party has no other positions it’s actually willing to fight for.
VBNMW
Out of curiosity, how many of the downvoters on this article have actually read it? Most of it is not about Fetterman but the fact that the Democrat leadership seems to have their heads in the sand and is neither demonstrating leadership nor willing to learn from their loss last year.
“sand” is being extremely polite. ;)
the party wins by following a simple 2 point plan:
- actually listen to your base.
- fire the democratic consultants who have led you all down disastrous results for 2 cycles.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that democrats in special elections way overperform than in general elections lately.
disastrous results for 2 cycles.
It’s been a disaster since Bill Clinton
Obama overthrowing the Clinton machine was a high point.
The Democratic Party is not a serious party. Both the party elite and the die-hard supporters need to wake the fuck up.
Days after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, a boatload of candidates vying to lead the Democratic National Committee crammed into a Washington auditorium plastered with MSNBC logos.
This was their last big forum before the vote to make the case that they had what it took to rescue their party from irrelevance.
The moderators called on a little-known contender, Quintessa Hathaway, to deliver the first opening statement. “I just want to give you all a little bit of something that’s been on my heart,” she told the audience.
Then, suddenly, unexpectedly, she broke into song. “When your government is doing you wrong,” she belted out, “you fight on, oh-oh, you fight on.”
It had only taken four minutes for the battle over the future of the Democratic Party to devolve into what critics likened to a scene from Portlandia, a comedy satirizing ultra-liberals — and it was a punchline that was clipped and replayed across social media in the days ahead. Things only got more surreal, and viral, from there. […]
“How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” asked MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart. Every candidate raised their hand. “That’s good,” he added. “You all pass.” Later, a DNC member asked, in reference to party positions: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Only one of eight contenders kept their hand down. […]
In multiple surveys since the election, a plurality of Democratic voters has said that Harris should be the 2028 presidential nominee. […]
Progressives calling for a more leftward tack on economics haven’t gotten a much better reception. Faiz Shakir, the former campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 bid, has said that Democrats should adopt a muscular economic populist agenda to win back working-class voters. When he ran for DNC chair on that platform, he only won two votes. […]
David Shor, an influential liberal pollster, has been circulating a presentation to Democrats dissecting the 2024 election. Slide after slide paints a dire picture for the party: Young voters have become more Republican. Trump likely won foreign-born voters. The electorate trusts the GOP more than Democrats on Social Security. Higher turnout wouldn’t have saved Harris; in fact, it would have made Trump win by a larger margin. […]
But intraparty critics said Democrats’ near-certain belief that they are going to take back the House in the midterms is also enabling them to continue avoiding hard conversations and perhaps obscuring the need to have a reckoning. There’s still a pervasive sense among some in the party that they don’t need to bother with all that — the pendulum will swing their way regardless.
“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat” - Will Rogers
Very wrong
You might want to read the article:
“Interviews with more than 30 Democratic elected officials, party leaders and consultants for this story reveal that after suffering their biggest defeat in decades, Democrats are deeply fractured, rudderless, and struggling to figure out at the most basic level what their message and strategy should be. Some longtime Democrats are worried, even enraged, that few of their leaders have reexamined their prior positions — let alone shown a willingness to consider a dramatic break with party norms or practice.”
