Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams
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"Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump's fascism to arise and succeed," argued one progressive organizer. "They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today."

House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • @[email protected]
    11•7 hours ago

    The Democrats in question would likely say they’re upset progressives are getting mad at Democrats as if they have the power to pass bills or do much of anything. Yelling “do something” isn’t helping when your party doesn’t have any power.

    Ironically the most power Democrats have is thanks to the filibuster, which Progressives campaigned against for years.

    • @kreskin
      2•2 hours ago

      Yelling “do something” isn’t helping when your party doesn’t have any power.

      it didnt help when the dems had power either. Theres zero correlation between what voters want and what our politicians do, even in our own party.

      As to your second point:

      the filibuster, which Progressives campaigned against for years.

      All it takes to remove the fillibuster is a simple majority vote in the senate. Its not the shield you think it is. Its used to enable a minority party to block legislation, and the majority to let them do it while pretending to be stymied. It was used to block so many good pieces of legislation that had majority support. You think the republicans will keep that going? I doubt it.

    • @[email protected]
      14•4 hours ago

      Maybe if they can’t do anything, these useless fucks should all resign and retire. Clearly, it wouldn’t make one difference.

    • @Doorbook
      16•6 hours ago

      Do nothing even though the conservatives and rich tech companies are taking over the federal government!

      They have millions, they can do many things to make conservatives work harder every single time, they can run protest, they can amplifiy their voices behind one leader, they can do alot of things…