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.

      • @chaogomu
        1•5 days ago

        Except unless they had been lobotomized, they knew damn well that their vote was being thrown away and that Trump would be the likely winner.

        Which is tact approval of Trump and everything that came with it.

        • @redhorsejacket
          4•5 days ago

          You’re rephrasing the post as though you’re making a “gotcha!” statement, when it’s just the thing they said. Their argument is that the Dems needed to lose for any chance of party reform to occur, and they voted in a way that would encourage that outcome.

          It’s an argument that I find compelling, especially given the fact that the Democrat leadership seems to be actively trying to learn all the wrong lessons from their humiliation, where they are trying to learn anything at all. This indicates to me that, to some degree, OP is correct and there wasn’t even a snowball’s chance in hell that party leadership would have done anything significant had they coasted to victory based solely on being not-Nazis.

          To seat his logic in another context, where the Trump of it all is not a factor, it’s the same argument I’ve heard lefties trot out in a discussion about legal vs illegal protest tactics. Which is to say, effective protest is protest which forces people to engage with the issue being discussed, and legal protest is ineffective because, by design, it is easily ignored by both the public and the powers that be.

          All that being said, the argument is not so compelling as to convince me that any pain caused to the Dems in service of organizing an actual progressive wing is worth the pain Trump’s election is causing people, the environment, or the world in general. I don’t know anything about OP, so I don’t want to state this as fact, but, to me, it smacks of the privilege that comes with figuring they will make it through this period okay (if not particularly great). Therefore, it’s worth it to them to endure this inconvenience, in the hopes that it effects change in the Dems. Attack their argument on that front all you like, but you’re not contributing anything by saying “you helped elect Trump!” when that’s what they said they did and they’d do it again.

    • @kreskin
      -2•5 days ago

      Are we pretending the dems werent the ones who leveled gaza and committed genocide so far? They did that shit and they promised to do more of it.

      And we dont know who to credit with the ceasefire.

      Am I wrong? seems like those are just facts.

        • @kreskin
          1•1 day ago

          I dont think thats a forward looking question. Lets try: “Was that a good policy choice and does that represent who Dems say we are going forward?” and “should we trust centrists in leadership any longer because they sure have been out of touch screwing the pooch for a long time” and “do we want more of this right-wing-lite fascist war support BS?”

          I’m tired of losing through DNC immorality and incompetence. Arent you? Its way past time to clean house.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•1 day ago

            I’d prefer you answer my question. Are you happy with the current administration’s policy?

            • @kreskin
              1•23 hours ago

              Sticking to the canned messaging only eh. I sure do understand why you’d take that approach.

              • @[email protected]English
                0•23 hours ago

                You don’t seem to understand anything. It’s a yes or no question.

                Is the current administration’s Israel policy preferable to you?

                You’re not answering because only a psychopath would say yes. But saying no, if you voted 3rd party, is admitting you fucked up. That’s why you avoid it. You can’t admit you’re wrong.

                • @kreskin
                  1•22 hours ago

                  Just like the vote was a Trump or Harris vote, period? How’d that work out for us champ? Its almost like Harris should have taken a broader view of the concrete issues at hand than just asking the voters to ask themselves “if she was better than trump”, and vote accordingly. Do you notice how that strategy is now being panned as out of touch, full of hubris, and pretty stupid?

                  The world is not limited to carefully scripted yes or no’s to the only thing phrased in the only terms you want to talk about. Controlled narrow framings like yours are exactly how we lost, so thank you for your service, finitebanjo.