The Thread of Democrats

[Cunt]

I’m not surprised. It’s important to understand how Americans view privacy. Some rich guy buying access to everyone’s data with no oversight is something you would expect to enrage both sides. And that’s what we see. Republicans and Democrats are angry.

The republicans are a bit annoyed they lost Dan Bongino, but considering where he went, I think they won't do a domestic terrorism over it.

[Cunt]

[Brian Peacock]

That's a good one. The people who don't love democracy are the real victims.

[Tero]

Younger people moving up. Another reason for the Schumers to stand aside. The younger voters won't bother to show up otherwise.

"Mallory McMorrow doesn’t claim to have all the answers for the Democratic Party. But as the 38-year-old Michigan Democrat gears up for a likely Senate run next month, she says generational change is needed — including at the leadership level."

“I think it is” time for Schumer to step back, McMorrow said. “There’s still this idea that Democrats and Republicans are still abiding by the same rules and still believe in the same norms and systems and structure. There seems to be a lack of recognition that this is no longer the Republican Party. This is a MAGA party. And the same approach is not going to work.”

"Now, as her political memoir Hate Won’t Win releases Tuesday, and ahead of a potential Senate run, McMorrow has some more advice for Democrats as they do battle with Trump."

"I’m very clear about the fact that polling shows that the Democratic Party is not popular right now, and there’s a massive disconnect between Donald Trump’s popularity now being under 50 percent and people increasingly being angry about the overreach of the second term, and not connecting that with the positive view of the Democratic Party. Both things are underwater, and that is a big red flag for me that signals the same Washington-based approach is not going to work in this moment."

"I know authenticity is overused, but I think it’s true. People have really good bullshit detectors. They can tell when you’re giving talking points and you’re trying to be buttoned up. And this is a moment where I think people want to vote for people that they like and people that they trust, and they’re not going to like you or trust you if they don’t feel like they know who you are, and that’s much bigger than just your job or your title."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... r-00246369

[Cunt]

Ageism. Classy.

[Brian Peacock]

Put yer pants on grandad.

[Cunt]

[Tero]

"Can Democrats become the party of the working class again? Can economic populism unite progressives and moderates? Can a Democrat win in a swing district or state on a populist platform? Ms. Ocasio-Cortez thinks so. But whether she’s right or not, the important thing for Democrats at this early stage of the Trump-wilderness period is that she is putting big ideas and arguments on the table. There’s not enough of that in the party right now."

"There is clearly plenty of anti-Trump energy to be harnessed — so much so that the president was nervous enough about possibly losing a red-district race to replace Representative Elise Stefanik that he pulled her nomination to be U.N. ambassador. But many Washington Democrats are struggling to push back against Mr. Trump, and the party seems to be casting about for inspiration and direction. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is taking up that mantle like few others, and along the way, challenging some of the caricatures of her as an upstart ideologue."
"How far Ms. Ocasio-Cortez can go is a hot topic for many Democrats right now. With her youth, charisma, social media skills and political savvy, she is being talked about nowadays as not only the obvious heir to Mr. Sanders as leader of the progressive movement, but as a possible presidential contender for 2028. This both recognizes her potential and feels premature at best.

"Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is arguably the best-known progressive figure in elected office — sorry, Bernie! — with all the divisiveness that comes with it. Her mere existence spins up Republicans to a degree reminiscent of their reaction to Nancy Pelosi in her heyday."

"Can all of this translate into Ms. Ocasio-Cortez becoming a standard-bearer for the entire party? She is a lightning rod for the right, and for some independents and swing voters, a persona traditionally not suited to assembling the broad-based coalition the Democrats need to reclaim the White House, especially when a plurality of the party’s voters say it needs to shift in a moderate direction. That said, the next presidential election is more than three years off, and no one can say how next year’s midterm elections will reshuffle the political deck — much less what the party, or country, will want in 10 or even 20 years."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opin ... crats.html

[Cunt]

If the Democrat party stopped kicking out so many of their allies, they wouldn't be so small, ineffective and ridiculous-looking.

They would still be much more formidable had they not alienated Gabbard, Kennedy and SO many less-famous Dems. Regular people don't like being pushed into accepting ridiculous dogma.

[Tero]

Author demands action:
This delay is costly. If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries. They should coordinate to defend and expand their institutional powers while they have them, wield them to obstruct Trump’s authoritarian agenda, strengthen grassroots resistance efforts, and protect the activists, officeholders, and other individuals exposed to retribution from the administration. The alternative may be that democracy slips away while they wait.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-s ... racy-trump

[Cunt]

Speaking of 'authoritarian' lol

When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents.

This is their standard playbook throughout the world.

For those of you in countries where you aren't permitted access to x, he was quoting benz, who said

Marine Le Pen in France, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Donald Trump in America, Calin Georgescu in Romania

The criminal prosecution of every populist challenger is a dagger in the heart of the credibility of democracy. x.com/mikebenzcyber/…

[Brian Peacock]

Maybe she shouldn't have massively fiddled her expenses. I thought you were all for the state 'catching and prosecuting fraud'?

[pErvinalia]

Conspiracy theories are easier to believe in.

[Cunt]

Maybe she shouldn't have massively fiddled her expenses. I thought you were all for the state 'catching and prosecuting fraud'?

Oh, well, if the governments government says she did a crime, then I guess there just won't be a popular rightwing candidate. Again.
Funny coincidence, what?

[JimC]

If courts find against a left winger, they are clearly correct.

If they find against a right wing politician, they must be woke and corrupt...