Summary
Younger House Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Angie Craig, are challenging senior members for powerful committee roles, signaling a shift from the party’s tradition of prioritizing seniority.
High-profile contests, such as for the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, reflect tensions following Democrats’ 2024 election losses and frustration with long-standing leadership practices.
Critics argue fresh leadership is needed to counter Donald Trump’s return, while others stress the value of experience and institutional knowledge.
The debate highlights a generational shift and growing demands for change within the Democratic Party.
Fucking good. This attitude of waiting your turn and rewarding loyalty over ability is how we wound up with an incompetent gerontocracy. Imagine if the party hadn’t tried to anoint Hillary Clinton, didn’t coordinate around Biden in 2020, forced Biden to face a real primary in 2024…and that’s just the Presidential races. Remember when Dianne Feinstein was so confused that someone had to tell her how to vote during an Appropriations Committee Meeting? We can’t keep giving Democrats power because it’s, “their turn.”
I thought you were going to mention the time Feinstein had to be told that they were announcing she wouldn’t be running again at that press conference. Should have resigned that day.
Oh man, I missed that one. I considered mentioning the time she hugged Lindsey Graham at the Amy Coney Barrett hearing because she apparently thought Barrett was a Democrat, or the time she left the Senate for 3 months because of shingles and, when a reporter questioned her on it, claimed she’d never left. In the end, I just picked the simplest example in the interest of brevity. Also, Jerry Nadler is only just now being forced out of the Judiciary Committee, and he shit himself on live TV a few years ago.