Every single one of these articles is the same: Blame Democrats for capitulating to "progressive advocates," blithely note that no one in power has actually done that, then tell Democrats to do exactly what they're already doing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/comprehensive-immigration-reform-democrats/680996/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/comprehensive-immigration-reform-democrats/680996/
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Fetterman certainly looks like he's up to the challenge. Who else?
I guess for the Democrats that one person is the Atlantic
Until they are forced to the side, the Dems will keep losing.
Harris ran, if anything, as a Moderate Republican literally courting and appearing with them at rallies etc.
Framing it as a defeat of the left just shows they want to surrender to the MAGA fascists.
Add to that a corrupt legacy MSM that slimes Dems and covers for MAGA and--NOT A MYSTERY.
The actions you describe as the correct way to handle immigration was exactly what President Biden was attempting to achieve but the republicans voted down the legislation!
I think it’s pretty plain. They need to try something radically different, or keep losing with the same playbook.
“You owe us your vote”
People owe you jack shit.
It's just time to leave an abusive relationship
I left under Obama
when they kill your grandson, we'll talk about how personal it really is
(Apologies to LH, who I adore).
You somehow think you are somehow less racist than Trump, despite agreeing that fortunes built on slavery should benefit the grandchildren of enslavers.
Despite planning to also drive the planet to extinction.
You offer no one under 40 anything substantial.
I think a lot of people felt they need someone to fight for them - so they needed to see someone fighting. Vociferously insisting on the truth!
If they keep doing it they will lose seats in the 2026 midterms and possibly the presidency again in 2028.
Maybe Democrats should have done more to address peoples' economic distress about housing, wages and healthcare so that they weren't desperate for someone to blame.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/
A totally unnecessary move that set the party back decades by abandoning 100 years of liberal thought on immigration.
All while swearing all the things we did want are bad
There is so much of that going on at the moment too and it completely misses the point of democracy. You can’t expect people to vote for you without doing the will of the people..
It will be a two-year campaign to make sure these people clearly understand what Trump is doing. There is not really a need to reach Democrats or Republicans that vote along party lines.
HOW
THEY ADOPTED THE GOP'S FRAMING ENTIRELY
they abandoned any pretense
It’s silly when critics say the Dems should do or that but don’t take into account they are always facing absurd headwinds from the establishment
I mean it works on the right …
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-public-health-new-york-health-4ef0c6c5263815a26f8aa17f6ea490ae
https://podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/humane-immigration-and-salad-vaccination/id1192761536?i=1000536434144
I dunno, could it be the 5 stories a week they read in The Atlantic about how Dems are captured by activists?
https://bsky.app/profile/fuzzymike.bsky.social/post/3ldhb6w3wgk2t
The people who decide media agendas are not a large group. You could fit them in a ballroom. And they all read the same things, including the NYTimes and The Atlantic.
Dems are glad handing corpos who showed their face as soon as they lost, blaming everyone but themselves. Ppl can tell they don't care and don't take the shrinking middle class srsly.
Dems: "things are sometimes not great but it's nobody's fault"
Reps aren't giving great answers, but they're giving people (awful) solutions.
God, the Dems, as a systemic party, are so awful at messaging.
Instead, we fight fake problems that don't exist and makes us traumatized.
every single one of those things polls at like 1% with Dem Primary Voters and Biden enthusiastically supported all of it within the past 15 years of those debates
that was their only messaging on immigration since late 2023
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-public-health-new-york-health-4ef0c6c5263815a26f8aa17f6ea490ae
Like if we are to believe what they are saying, where were they the whole time!?
The Atlantic, NYT, WaPo and LA Times are so doomed. Burn them.
My argument would be that even when Democrats have essentially the correct strategy they are extremely bad at executing it because they signal weakness and defensiveness in a thousand small ways.
The Democrats ran, often to my frustration, on "kitchen table" issues while the GOP ran on hate and retribution.
It may be time to face it. Trump won because a lot of Americans are just dicks.
👏INACTION👏IS👏AN👏ACTION👏