“How’s the Democratic Party’s ground game in Pennsylvania?” I asked a friend several weeks before the 2024 presidential election. He replied optimistically that there were far more door knockers this year than in 2022.
It turned out these door knockers were just urging a vote for the Democrats without putting forth a compelling agenda attached to candidate commitments on issues that mean something to people where they live, work, and raise their families. There was no Democratic Party “Compact for the American People.” Then-President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania, which went Republican, many times, with his most memorable message being that he grew up in Scranton.
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Their aversion to building their own momentum to answer the basic questions “Whose side are you on?” and “What does the Democratic Party stand for?” remains as pathetic as it was in 2022 and 2024.
I’ve been yelling this for years. The scary thing for me is that increasingly “dems + lean dem” are no longer the majority and repubs have better numbers. And strong dem registration numbers shrink every year. Dems refuse to acknowledge or act on this fact, and its harder every year to define what “Dem” even stands for anymore. What is the Dem party platform? I used to be sure. Do dems support progressive taxation? No one knows. Now I think the DNC champions whatever viable minimum it can to win an election while sucking off the donors to the maximum extent. If they can win with 51% by allowing the rich to fuck us all over, thats the strategy they will pick-- they arent on our side.
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