Chris Hayes: Some Democrats are convinced they just need to keep their heads down and hope they can run on egg prices in two years. Not only is that strategy morally wrong in my view, but it is strategically wrong.
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Mr. Hayes, please get either Jeffries or Schumer on your show, and demand of them to explain to their voters, why they are more in to decorum, than saving democracy and standing up to Trump and the GOPs coup attempt. And don't let them walk away with a spin answer!
It’s odd that they seem hypnotized by this robbery of our government. What is the reason for this non action against the dismantling of our rights and freedoms? Actions can be non aggressive and still be effective.
Try this. Get on the phone. Get on e-mail. Tell you reps in DC what you think. It only takes few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
These people are paid to do nothing. They don’t have the slightest idea what doing something involves and they have no ideological drive to do anything, in any case.
You are absolutely right. They no longer run to serve based on strong commitment to democracy & what our country stands for. They are in it for money & power. You don't become worth $81M like Schumer serving your constituents. You become that rich serving the rich.
Why run for federal government if you’re not prepared to push against the President? I can’t understand why these people wanted to be in congress? If I had a voice at that level you would not be able to shut me up. It’s so weird.
I used to think it was commitment to their constituents. However, many (including leadership) are only in it for making money, supporting their rich supporters and power trips. I grew up in late 60s and 70s when our democratic leadership marched with us to end Vietnam War with courage & commitment.
Different factions of the party should step up to the microphone and amplify THEIR positions. Because the party is lost. It's up to the individual members to carry the ball.
You are right. Screw the leadership. Let the young resistor congress members start their own leadership. They organize & we will mobilize with them. It's time for them to take over the party. There are dozens of them.
Honestly I don’t understand why our democratic leaders are having such difficulty pushing back. I understand the imbalance in power, but the normal rules don’t work here. Either fight back or get out of the way. We’re losing precious time while Dems urge us to be patient. But there’s no plan.
Give federal workers guidelines on what Elon & his teen squad are authorized to have access to. Have townhalls in not only their constituencies districts but in Red areas as well especially in competitive areas. Give weekly updates on local initiatives to inform ppl in Trumps act & how to address it
Schumer and Durbin and Jeffries? How? Seriously, we are in the middle of a coup and what are they accomplishing? Don't need details. Even in a general way?
I don't have the answers you want and I am not responsible for answering your questions. We are all in this - divided we fall, so keep complaining or become part of the solution.
oh yeah or maybe they could do one that says "I'm with stupid" that'll show him
Every Democrat who (for whatever reason) showed up to listen to Trump's speech should have been up and shouting with Green instead of sitting there with their pingpong paddles while he got marched out.
Taking a page from the obstructionist Mitch McConnell strategy wouldn't hurt 🤷♀️
Be annoying. Slow them down. They're trying to move quickly to overwhelm any opposition. Give them opposition!
March 15: mail Trump a postcard that publicly expresses your opposition to him. We, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will show him, the media and the politicians what standing with him — and against us — means. We will bury the White House in pink slips. Inform DT that he’s FIRED!
Their welfare is not tied to ours. They have the luxury (in every sense of the word) to ride it out. The donor class is still donating, more so probably, to keep the status quo. We are going to get nothing from Democrats. Well, we will: a candidate that checks boxes but no real chance. Again.
You want dems to be as shitty, weird, disorganized as
laser Greene and hand job boebert?
Dem State AGs stopping DOGE through lawsuits.
House Dems voted against budget unanimously.
Don't boo...vote!
No, decorum seems to only adheer to Democrats. The Dems missed a chance to show their own voters, that they actually care. Had they all left, when Al Green got thrown out, it would have shaken Trump so much, that he would start rambling more, than he did. 1/
And after leaving, the Dems should have hit the media in big numbers, explaning that this is not normal times, that's why they broke decorum. And after that, should have debunked everything, Trump had said up till then. But, in my opinion, they blew the one chance, they had to stir things up. End
Thing is, R's ARE organized when it comes to messaging, they are just disorganized when it comes to governance. And the Dems are the exact inverse of that.
There is a difference between a message, and being a lying, crank, crazy, conspiracy theorist.
If Dems act like GOP then is over.
The focus should be on GOP ass licking, liars and grifters.
I am not saying that we should just lie our asses off. But you don't hear dems out there saying the obvious truth - We have a russian asset in the oval office and the republican party has all been brought into the fold and they are all together dismantling our democracy from within.
That they don't give a DAMN about the constitution and seek to undermine it at every point, that they care more about the people with multiple hundreds of billions of dollars more than the people with not a red cent to their name.
You hear a COUPLE of dems saying this, at any given point in time, but it is not a loud, consistent message. Harris/Walz was really good at messaging but we hadn't been doing it long enough for it to seep in. And now we gave up again.
What Al Green said about "we have the best health care in the world as congresspeople..." was a great universal good message, and leader jeffries is having "come to jesus" moments about not doing that? That's political malfeasance.
I live in Iowa, I have been quite understand of dems in purple/red districts. But just scraping by on thin majorities/minorities in either chamber is not getting us anywhere.
Dems core message should be #ShamefulBetrayal they can then add that to every submessage.
’The attack on institutions is a #ShamefulBetrayal of American ideals’.
’The price of eggs is a #ShamefulBetrayal of American consumers.’
Always lead with morality. Otherwise what's the point? I think Jeffries thinks this is the way to go but imo he's betraying his base and it won't work.
I had to pay about $250 for a US passport book, US Passport card with both expedited in December so that I'd get it with the F under sex on the passport documents knowing that Trump admin would destroy that. I still had 4 years left on it... but I had to renew it early b/c. No Dem seems to care
One side votes for fascism, they get it, the other votes for opposition and left ideals, they get… Emails from the @democrats.org asking for funds to do something at some point, https://schumer.senate.gov being “bipartisan”, called off as “far left” by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social.. I wonder why they lose 🤔
The sign sitting was pathetic. I doubt midterm elections, but my vote is so sacred to me, it will not go to any who have not protected or defended the constitution. Sign holding is not either.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social every day you need to wake up those Dems and ask them what the fuck they are doing. Put pressure. You got to do some virulent Dems bashing to wake them up. Jeffries and Schumer and many others are pathetic.
We are ready and able to primary *all* of them if they can’t figure out how to push back, even if only symbolically. That matters, lots! Legislating our way out of this isn’t possible. We need to be loud and brash and attention-getting, but on the side of doing good stuff for non-billionaires
Dems are still like deer in headlights after the election. How do you combat constant lies? Yes, they are constrained by being the minority. I'm tired of negativity about dems. What about young white men who voted for trump? They need to be shamed. Where are the ppl from 2016? We The People!!!
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov do you plan on listening to what literally EVERYONE is telling you!?!? Stop bringing pool noodles to a gun fight!!!
The 10 Democrats censuring Green were Reps Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
Get your boxing gloves on Chris and keep the goofy Dems against the ropes! They are lost in the land of Utopia. They are wandering aimlessly under illusions and delusions making ill informed decisions viewed from Rose colored glasses that are smudged with Fear!
I think they've decided to roll over for the fascists to avoid being purged, and sold out the people. They're all trying to worm further right and play nice with fascists instead of fighting them, and defending us. Collaborators deserve punishment as well as the other fascist traitors when this ends
The gall, the absolute gall of the Secretary of Treasury! Every voter should look up his career. He has benefited from the global financial order to the tune of hundreds of millions.
At the present rate of collapse www wont last 2 years. 6 months tops unless the democrats remove their heads from their own asses. Being feckless and weak isn’t going for the win.
What can be done to return power to the States and Congress, protect federal agencies and reduce the power of the Presidency? “Project 2028- No Kings”? There needs to be a Democratic blueprint when they return to power.
We don't have until 2026, never mind 2028. Hitler took 53 days to bring Germany from a democracy to Nazism. America's Hitler is conducting a coup without any effective resistance from Democratic Congress.
The only saving grace is that Trump is completely incompetent. He will F it up. The next R Prez is why there has to be a complete overhaul of the system.
This is the laziest, most reflexive post. S large fraction of people are doing it. Try having an original thought. Of course elections are in danger. We all know that. The point is not to moronically repeat that, but to fight for the fairest elections we can.
They spent the last 15 years preparing. They stacked the courts, gerrymandered, purged voter rolls, closed polling stations, influenced social media and MSM , and there are serious questions about the tabulation. ...
Just to elaborate: 2 in Fl, 1 in NY, 1 in TX, all for House. New Jersey and Virginia are both electing Governors and Lt. Governors. If you count mayors, judges, state legislators there's too many to list.
I know about these, and it may swing the house. Fingers crossed. I honestly don't think a Republican will be elected again if we do have fair elections.
The simple answer to your question is, yes. I do expect there to be free and fair elections. There will be two in FL this year. Seriously, if you're just going to get all Eeyore about it, go away. This is going to be hard enough without you and yours trying to make like it's a waster of time.
Aside from his vote today to censure Al Green, I think Jim Hines is a great messenger for Dems. He's firm with the truth, kinda always pissed off and INTERESTING.
They are clearly being steered by something other than duty. I just hope they have the guts to accept their part in the downfall when it comes as in the absence of action it most certainly will
Thank you. Its disturbing how complacent most elected dems are right now. Some are even discouraging others from speaking against this administration, their lies and the destruction they're causing. 10 voted to censure Green. Dems need to stand up for their constituents and care or be replaced.
Silently holding tiny auction paddles is not protest. Democrats need to stand up and stop being silent. They all should have walked out after Green was removed for standing up for his constituents and speaking up against Trump's lies. They are following the wrong leaders in this party.
Yeah, they can keep their heads down right through primary season, so we can replace them with people who aren't cowards and will do their job and uphold their oath of office. There are a lot of qualified, newly unemployed public servants who'd be perfect for the task of obstructing Trump’s agenda.
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https://newrepublic.com/post/192420/democrats-poll-resistance-donald-trump
No compromise with fascists! No obeying tyrants!
what if you decided that grifting sportsball was waaay easier than actually spending your accrued political capital to accomplish real policy goals
I am the guy who had all the other beat writers pissed at him because I told them their questions were weak & contrived.
Playing nice makes friends but I WAS right
Stop being polite and pretending this is business as usual, especially if the entire strategy is "Trump is an unprecedented threat to democracy."
Every Democrat who (for whatever reason) showed up to listen to Trump's speech should have been up and shouting with Green instead of sitting there with their pingpong paddles while he got marched out.
Be annoying. Slow them down. They're trying to move quickly to overwhelm any opposition. Give them opposition!
The Dems don’t have close to a majority. They can’t stop the picks, only slow them down a couple days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Barack_Obama#Cabinet
Spending all your energy reacting (or not!) to what an opponent is doing without your own plan for action is a terrible strategy anywhere.
So, TWO months !!!
and 10,000+ lives uprooted !!!
Democrats do nothing
- Trump finally responds because of bad poll #'s
Thank you every 1 who protested!
Keep up the good work 👏
Darn you Dems- I'm voting for Independents from now on!
laser Greene and hand job boebert?
Dem State AGs stopping DOGE through lawsuits.
House Dems voted against budget unanimously.
Don't boo...vote!
But people would like to see Dem leaders behave, like they care.
People would like to see Dem leaders back the protesters, not scolding them.
When Dem leadership didn't go all out to protest Al Greens censure, they lost a lot of voters.
Dems should not be hypocrites.
Also, people are seeing Dem AGs lawsuits stopping DOGE.
All Dems voted against budget - walking not just acting like they care.
If Dems act like GOP then is over.
The focus should be on GOP ass licking, liars and grifters.
I love Al Green. And I think he wants people to focus on saving Medicaid. That’s what he’s asking.
’The attack on institutions is a #ShamefulBetrayal of American ideals’.
’The price of eggs is a #ShamefulBetrayal of American consumers.’
Literally anything other than the nothing you’ve been doing
I do intend to vote anyway, and I hope we can overwhelm them, but I am not optimistic.
Happy you are though.
Sorry if this is all difficult to hear.
Not Eeyore. Not Carville. Luigi.
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happening-the-chris-hayes-podcast/id1382983397?i=1000695795262
Aside from his vote today to censure Al Green, I think Jim Hines is a great messenger for Dems. He's firm with the truth, kinda always pissed off and INTERESTING.
I wait to hear his reason why he censured Green. Doesn't make much sense to me.
Meanwhile, this Nazi mean-girl lives in our Pentagon...
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319995/kingsley-wilson-antisemitic-comments-defense-department-pentagon
They’re never going to do anything without a big stick up the butt
https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/wealth/chuck-schumer-net-worth/