Politico & NYT have reported on a memo from Dem donor adviser Seth London, seeking to build a faction inside the party. I got the memo. He explicitly calls for a new Democratic Leadership Council, the market-friendly push to move right in the 1980s. The whole memo is at the bottom of the story. - ThreadSky

ddayen.bsky.social • 90 days ago

Politico & NYT have reported on a memo from Dem donor adviser Seth London, seeking to build a faction inside the party.
I got the memo.
He explicitly calls for a new Democratic Leadership Council, the market-friendly push to move right in the 1980s.
The whole memo is at the bottom of the story.

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jlindey.bsky.social•90 days ago

By "market friendly" do they mean "anti consumer?"

dfs4114.bsky.social•90 days ago

Hard pass.

simonlester.com•90 days ago

"Robert Rubin’s view of international economics, emphasizing unfettered free trade, financial deregulation, faith in markets to solve societal problems, privatization, military escalation and intervention, and austerity budgeting"

How does the military part fit in here? That's not economics, is it?

ddayen.bsky.social•90 days ago

that was a late add that probably should have been broken out

madamehardy.bsky.social•90 days ago

It took me two reads to realize that DLC wasn't "downloadable content". If it were, I don't like the base game enough to buy.

danancona.bsky.social•90 days ago

What was it Elon said instead of concerning when it was like, catturd not getting enough likes on his posts or whatever? "on it"?

Maybe we need a bug tracking and support ticket system for Dem/left orgs 😆

webrant.bsky.social•90 days ago

You know, the 1980s, when Reagan era fascists also took control and neoliberals decided to join them on behalf of the capital interests of the donors they shared with Republicans.

https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lcdpkek3hc27

ddayen.bsky.social•90 days ago

Part of what's interesting here is a venture capitalist whose last public idea was deregulating city governments to attract startups, who then went to a lobbying shop that did a big campaign for the airline industry, thinking he has the key to persuade ordinary people
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-02-insider-memo-envisions-new-dlc/

joparkerbear.bsky.social•90 days ago

A real man of the people

mikeregister.bsky.social•90 days ago

These people can seriously go f*ck themselves. They are every bit the same enemy of the American people as MAGA is.

dcanam.bsky.social•90 days ago

Sounds like justifying being further owned by big money under guise of democratic ideals.

phaseblowly.bsky.social•89 days ago

Yep, I think it is. The DLC/3rd Way shitbags gotta get a piece of that fascist action somehow and the GOP needs a reliable Washington Generals squad to beat up on, so…

phaseblowly.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is Democratic leaders and elites trying to comfortably place themselves within the incoming fascist order, imo. May they find themselves up against the wall, eventually.

jjalhaj.bsky.social•90 days ago

Is the DLC not already running the party? Maybe social democrats should take a page out of the DLC and Tea Party handbooks and vie for power inside the party.

vaina.bsky.social•90 days ago

Nope

bchafee33.bsky.social•89 days ago

Imagine your takeaway from the last eight years being “maybe we should listen to Matt Yglesias and Noahpinion more”

longreach.bsky.social•90 days ago

No thx.

riggsveda.bsky.social•89 days ago

📌

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