Damn straight we do. Today's democratic party is a composed of lily white extremists who think they, and only they, know what is best for America. It is composed of idiots like @LafayetteBear and @NJPSU .
https://josephklein.substack.com/p/defining-mediocrity-down
The Democrats are about to recede for a while. They’ve proven they have nothing of interest to say right now. They will be reduced to sullen opposition in Congress. Donald Trump—for better or worse, or even worse than that—will dominate the news. The Democrats will spend the next few weeks worrying over the least inspiring field of candidates for National Chairman that I can remember. (See Wisconsin Ben Wikler’s myopic nonsense quote above). They will continue their rather pathetic efforts to come up with a rationale for their revival or, perhaps, their very existence. The latter is assumed, but I’m not sure it’s guaranteed.
I have been reading the various proposals for the reinvigoration of the Democrats. They have been shocking in their thin, reflexive nostrums. The party’s left sings its old song—the problem is the economic anxiety of the working class. Left-populism is the answer. Tariffs, tax the rich, industrial policy (gussied up in green), Medicare for all. They hope that blather will camouflage the fact that the Left lacks the courage to stand up to the real cause of the party’s demise—identity politics and its permissive impact on race, crime, immigration, education, traditional families. A New York Times poll today has 49% of the American people thinking Donald Trump will not be able to do much about inflation. If so, why did they vote for Trump? Because he was strong and appeared real. Meanwhile, vast majorities in the Times poll think he’ll do a lot about the border and illegal immigration. The Democrats, in the thrall of their consultant class, use too-much focus-tested language to sound real. They are the party of synthetic sensitivities, a ministry of pronouns, policing micro-aggressions unnoticed beyond the precincts of Ibram X. Kendi and his sham “anti-racism” center at Boston University.
https://josephklein.substack.com/p/defining-mediocrity-down
The Democrats are about to recede for a while. They’ve proven they have nothing of interest to say right now. They will be reduced to sullen opposition in Congress. Donald Trump—for better or worse, or even worse than that—will dominate the news. The Democrats will spend the next few weeks worrying over the least inspiring field of candidates for National Chairman that I can remember. (See Wisconsin Ben Wikler’s myopic nonsense quote above). They will continue their rather pathetic efforts to come up with a rationale for their revival or, perhaps, their very existence. The latter is assumed, but I’m not sure it’s guaranteed.
I have been reading the various proposals for the reinvigoration of the Democrats. They have been shocking in their thin, reflexive nostrums. The party’s left sings its old song—the problem is the economic anxiety of the working class. Left-populism is the answer. Tariffs, tax the rich, industrial policy (gussied up in green), Medicare for all. They hope that blather will camouflage the fact that the Left lacks the courage to stand up to the real cause of the party’s demise—identity politics and its permissive impact on race, crime, immigration, education, traditional families. A New York Times poll today has 49% of the American people thinking Donald Trump will not be able to do much about inflation. If so, why did they vote for Trump? Because he was strong and appeared real. Meanwhile, vast majorities in the Times poll think he’ll do a lot about the border and illegal immigration. The Democrats, in the thrall of their consultant class, use too-much focus-tested language to sound real. They are the party of synthetic sensitivities, a ministry of pronouns, policing micro-aggressions unnoticed beyond the precincts of Ibram X. Kendi and his sham “anti-racism” center at Boston University.
