Connolly secured his position on the pivotal Oversight Committee after leaders in the House Democratic caucus—most notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi—backed Connolly’s bid over Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
While other Democratic leaders have been fumbling for a response to Trump, the administration has been in a public feud with Ocasio-Cortez. Tom Homan, Trump’s handpicked immigration czar, has even called on the Department of Justice to investigate the congresswoman after she advised migrant communities of their constitutional rights.
In contrast to Connolly’s pro-compliance message, Ocasio-Cortez recently wrote, “America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.”
Everyone downvoted me and called me an idiot when I said the Dems are weak and useless. Most of them don’t have a spine.
People lost their minds when I suggested the dems are at fault for losing so badly, not protest voters. It’s funny as hell thinking the old guard of the democratic party will ever become effective
They were “relaxed about Trump” back in the campaign for President hence didn’t even try to appeal to voters left of center (whom they later slandered via their minions and useful idiots as having the blame for the Trump victory because they didn’t vote for the very Democrat leaders who didn’t even try to appeal to them) and they’re still “relaxed about Trump” now that he’s using the powers of the Presidency to go full-Fascist.
Both of them are at fault. The voters are just as culpable for being so misinformed about what was at stake, and the democrats should’ve told them more.
But the info was all available, so that’s not an excuse.
The Dems told us a lot, the problem is they don’t follow through with action. People are suffering and all they’ve got to offer is some ineffectual policy efforts and being the lesser of two evils. We’re bombarded daily by sensationalist talking points so telling us that Trump is a fascist is met with desensitized ears. And any policy stance they take is so generic and bland in an effort to appeal to everyone that it inspires nobody and it all comes off as empty promises.
Despite being the party of not actually achieving anything meaningful to the majority of the working class for a generation, people still came out by the millions to vote for them because the alternative is that bad. But their chronic complacency was enough to tip the scales.
This has been explained so, so, so-so, so so so.many times. How is it still not understood?
The very same phenomenon you seen with those whose identity is to be MAGAs of being unable to believe the truth about their “leader” even when pretty much rubbed on their faces, because their tribalism means they’re emotionally wedded to the tribe and will always believe the tribe’s chief is right and those who say otherwise are liars, is also on display amongst those whose identity is to be Democrats toward their own “tribal chiefs”.
When it comes to Politics there is no greater human character flaw than Tribalism and the selective blindness that goes with it.
Blaming the protest voters on the losses like blaming the immigrants on… Well, all the s*** that the GOP blaimd on the immigrants.
However, while the Democrats could have done A LOT more to win, I’m not entirely sure that things were counted correctly. They may even be complicit, can anyone come up with a reasonable answer as to why nobody demanded recounts?
I have been thinking, even though there are genuinely tone deaf, smug, urban elite centrist Democrats who call everyone who disagrees with them as plain stupid-- instead of acknowledging that the once reliable working-class and rural voters that supported Democrats felt abandoned by jobs outsourcing went over to the Republicans-- I reckon some accounts are also bots to amplify this disdain by centrist Democrats on the conservative-voting working-class, in order to further widen the partisan gap.
So much had been reported of Russia funding far-right populist parties, but there is also Russia funding the left or at least being suspiciously friendly. Putin is cosy with the former centre left German chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, who have worked in Russian energy firms. Jill Stein rob votes from Democrats during presidential elections and she is hesitant to call Putin a dictator (like Trump). Many far-left parties in Europe also either have warm or ambivalent feeling towards Russia, and are reluctant to support Ukraine.
Unlike during the Cold War when the Soviet Union solely funded radical far-left groups (while the US supported right wing dictatorships), the current meddling and psy-ops from current Russia don’t have any ideological preference to support in order to destabilise the West. Russia simply throws all the wrench they could get into the machine.