After suffering their biggest defeat in decades, Democrats are deeply fractured, rudderless, and struggling to figure out at the most basic level what their message and strategy should be.
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The solution: listen to the people. People are tired of wasteful government spending. People want Medicare, SSA and Medicaid safe. People want to have money leftover from their paycheck instead of the entire amount going toward necessitates. We want actions that reflect what we've said.
What gets me lately: Dems campaigned on Trump/Rs going full fascist yet clearly no one in the party was making plans to combat it “just in case” Trump won. WTAF?
Short-sightedness? Hubris? Incompetence?
We need a real opposition party, with a plan, yesterday.
We will get our shit together. It's always the people that lead and the "leaders" that follow. Tax the rich, help the poor and working class, healthcare distributed equally as a right, love, etc. Values taught by Jesus, I would hazard to say, though I do not mean for us to be a religious movement.
Schumer did exactly what any Senate minority leader would have done the past week. What would you have him do? Run around with his hair on fire screaming obscenities? His first chance to do something substantive will come during the debt ceiling negotiations.
Oh malarkey! Ken Martin, our new DNC Chair, has a new strategy rolling out to have town halls everywhere, especially red states, and to organize year-round. Democrats believe the economy should work for everyone, health care is a right, diversity is our strength, and democracy is worth defending.
Yawn.. what a boring subject. Truth is the Democrats need to embrace their progressive side. We are the energy. Stop adopting Republican talking points and stop being afraid.
Dems may be "udderless" but surely it is obvious they elevate leaders that are "other more"🇺🇸Red states are paying the most for Dems loss to current NFA (New Felon Administration) formerly MAGA formerly GOP🦅
Republican Democrats can leave the room. The rise of the Progressives is here. Dump the Clinton control of the party. They are the problem. No one else.
The record indicates that their response will be too little, too late. As long as Senators Hoyer and Pelosi unilaterally decide who gets on the party tickets, and as long as Sen. Schumer decides senate legislative strategy, there's no chance anything can change their downward direction, is there?
This is such a dumb story. The entire corporate media complex is misreading the situation. We are angry at the organization of leadership in the Democratic Party. The rank and file are not lost. We are angry and motivated against the nazis. The octogenarians are rudderless. The membership is not.
Biggest defeat ever??? We lost a few seats and actually have done great in off years…America has an American citizen problem citizens vote opposite of their best interests
In 2018, Republicans were in the same state. In 2010, Democrats were. In 2006, Republicans were…
You will be writing the same article about the GOP after next year’s midterms. Because voters are fickle, have no patience, and little knowledge of the workings of both the economy and the government.
They can start by listening to their constituents instead of dismissing them because they’re convinced they’re smarter. That way of thinking got us into this mess and alienated centrist republicans. Now they’re doing it to their own party. I’m looking at you, @schumer.senate.gov
It's really simple. Both politicians and the press should be asking whose in charge? Who's making the decisions? Dementia Donny is obviously not in charge, his handlers are making all the decisions. Hours after 4 soldiers died in Lithuainia, he knew nothing about it Same with Singalgate!
you are missing the point - republicans are the evil empire, the democratic party may be confused but the people are not....they are uniting and demonstrating and owning their own voices!
TY! These attacks need to be called out. It's the exact opposite if what's needed right now. Nobody is getting everything they want in the Democratic Party platform, and likely never will... but we're not going to have democracy if you keep helping Republicans w/ their talking points.
As I understand it lots of voters didn’t even bother to show up. Someone said they didn’t know enough about Harris. I personally would have voted for the White House janitor before Drumpf and if Politico leans right too far they too will suffer.
Democrats have a BIG PROBLEM! SURE WE DO! We have to focus on a broad coalition of voters and issues that would benefit them. We find ourselves focus on a very small slice of the electorate and then wonder why we don’t get the VOTES. Bernie & AOC are talking to voters about broad issues.
In 2024, we did not win a single swing state. We have to stop attacking each other. We need to find common cause and common ground with the citizens in swing states, it’s all about the ELECTORAL COLLEGE! This will bring the Democratic Party back to Govern this great Republic.
I know pundits claim "we're not magats" is not a strategy, but why not? Trump just won during peace and prosperity by PRETENDING both those things weren't true, and now he's made them disappear. Shouldn't that be all you need to point out? And BTW, Mexico and Joe fixed the border, before 1/20/25!
Early voting in #FL06 and #FL01 districts happening today. Special Election Day, Tuesday April 1st. Get out and flip these seats blue. The anti fascist message should be heard loud and clear. Josh Weil and Gay Valimont are great candidates that deserve and chance to speak the democratic message.
If the Republican Congress would stop hiding from Trump and stand up for the American people, we could all have confidence in the party system again. With Republicans simply checked out and silent in this chaos, even more pressure comes to bear on Democrats.
Apologize to the American people. Admit that Woke does exist. They will not impose policies federally that in certain states fundamentally disagree with .
Yes,
I felt that way too . It was all our own people that tore apart our better government and now we end up with a Nazi regime and once again our own people are calling us failures when it was them, the media, that failed us.
Oh your suggestion is to abandon trans people and become Republicans that's a new one anyway now to take a look at Harris's statements on trans people and the border last year.
In other news Water is Wet. Even the democratic posts on here seem directionless and offer basic level criticism of "orangemanbad" to the point that my Discovery feed just looks like Democratic Truth Social
How can America ever be a government of the people, when the people themselves don’t vote on election day? Please look it up yourself; most Americans never read the Constitution, the Bill of rights, don’t know political science, don’t know what voting is all about, but believe to be a know-it-all?
It’s been months.. and they’re still blaming… checking notes here… oh yes: racist voters… misogynist voters… the Green Party… the city of Dearborn… anything but their own platform and strategy.
lol f you I won’t do what you tell me. That’s your own voters you’re talking about? Not the Republicans you were trying to court by going Republican light for the last eleventy years?
Strategy of doing nothing seems to be working fine. Unqualified and crooked people usually break things. Matter of time until it’s something really popular.
Show America something to believe in, not just "We're not the Other Guy." Work with the younger progressives to generate passion for helping the working class people.
You guys just posted a story about a town hall where you said you couldn't find any Republicans. Yet this happened. (I'm saying you're bad at your jobs)
It's not about "shit together". You have to break the law, cheat, lie, as GOP did to win.
When you win - strengsten the system of checks and balances, so that breaking the law leads to instant punishment. Protector of the Constitution does something against it - removed and arrested immediately.
1.) The Democratic Party is dead—not in name, but in essence. Like Nietzsche’s God is dead, its foundation has collapsed, yet people still act as if it hasn’t. Its structure lingers, but its power, purpose, and ability to function as a true opposition have rotted away.
2.) The two-party system exists only as a hollow ritual, a performance to maintain the illusion of choice. The next election, if it happens at all, won’t be a contest between competing visions. It will be the confirmation of a one-party state.
I will be so pissed about all of this self immolation analysis if we find out in 10 years that Elon rigged the election. We'd be calling ourselves geniuses if Harris had actually won. (Am I crazy for thinking this?)
I don't know if you're crazy but you do sound like a lefty version of the right wing election deniers from 2020. If you have any hard evidence that Elon rigged the election, please share that information.
Bob, I don't. Just comments made by Trump about how "Elon knows those voting machines better than anyone and he really helped us win." Trump has always told us exactly what he's up to. He can't help himself.
I'm not an election denier, I just have questions.
I certainly don’t want to be the one to copy Republicans and act like a bunch of lying cheating stealing first graders. Democrats need to retain their integrity and don’t budge on your morals. Let the liars lie.
Obsess over ideological purity tests while avoiding questions about inflation, border policy, is political malpractice in its purest form. The party still behaves like the faculty senate debating academic fine points while the administration pardons insurrectionists and ships migrants to Guantánamo.
(1) get back to basics;
(2) focus on real “kitchen table” issues;
(3) talk about what you will create rather than what you will oppose, and tell voters who you are, rather than who you are not;
(4) look up and look forward;
(5) move back to the middle.
Easy. Go independent. When there is a cancer you remove it. You don't let it spread. The Red party destroys, the blue party waits for someone else to do something before they act. A new gree independent party will act. Now is the time. Before it's to late.
They could stop enabling illegal migrants and seriously support universal healthcare. And instead of trying to construct effective 'messaging', they could try just being honest and real.
There will be a change when the people - voters - take to the streets in protest and whenever possible, vote the Trump supporters out of office. Keep up the pressure and grow the movement.
Nope. Democrats listened to Republicians say "We figured out how to win! Cater to our base!" And Democrats heard "We should cater to the Republician base to win" instead of catering to their own base.
Just like the Conservative party in the UK.
A weird parallel exposing the paucity of new political ideas and party leaders with a compelling (sellable) vision.
Dear Democrats, defeated by a serial looser - lost everything but weight until Ozempic came along; this is waste of time. You will not have any more free elections. Didn’t you hear what he told the jews before election 2024? Good luck, America.
Sucks that your owner is a far-right fucktard and that your articles are always pro-conservative, even if you try to present an objective, real journalism, face.
I have to also add that, I had followed politico because there were editorial editors that were old school textbook driven to present facts not opinion.
News sources of the past showed the issues and the facts.
We had come to our own opinion based on all relative facts.
Let all the American Dumb-Downs pay their price for this Nazi regime. We can be there when it fails, to clean up their mess. It’s apparently what we do best.
MAGA!What!When white men held all the power? When minorities were spit on?when women had abortions in back allies? No! Make America great NOW! Tax the 800 billionaire, liveable wages for labourers, affordable health care,"love they neighbors"Save the Seas,Laws for the people to help all people!
Politico your work for trump musk Putin and the Republicans are just what Americans need. You screech about Democrats being rudderless while pushing propaganda for Trump makes you part of why Trump got elected
Ah yes, Dems are in such disarray that Elise Stefanik had to run back to her little House seat for fear the Republicans will lose the House in deep red districts holding special elections.
Hate to say it but….. was the election a real example of how most Americans feel, how many didn’t vote? Democrats needs to stay strong, rethink and get out there. We are watching America falling apart right now.
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Short-sightedness? Hubris? Incompetence?
We need a real opposition party, with a plan, yesterday.
https://theherocall.substack.com/p/the-democratic-party-has-a-charles
Pity the children who couldn’t vote for this.
You will be writing the same article about the GOP after next year’s midterms. Because voters are fickle, have no patience, and little knowledge of the workings of both the economy and the government.
There can be no larger failure.
https://theherocall.substack.com/p/the-democratic-party-has-a-charles
Trump even said it was rigged.
I felt that way too . It was all our own people that tore apart our better government and now we end up with a Nazi regime and once again our own people are calling us failures when it was them, the media, that failed us.
When I interned there, it was like swallowing mothballs and Popeyes biscuits without honey.
https://theherocall.substack.com/p/the-democratic-party-has-a-charles
Why are you normalizing what Trump, Musk & Vance are doing?
#StopTheCoup
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?feature=shared
https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3lli276cwn22f
When you win - strengsten the system of checks and balances, so that breaking the law leads to instant punishment. Protector of the Constitution does something against it - removed and arrested immediately.
I'm not an election denier, I just have questions.
(2) focus on real “kitchen table” issues;
(3) talk about what you will create rather than what you will oppose, and tell voters who you are, rather than who you are not;
(4) look up and look forward;
(5) move back to the middle.
https://www.threads.net/@ze11e_05/post/DHuRIgKICri?xmt=AQGzZ3BuDfXT3YLe09cXz7q1NsMgyRWlVjnbbP3WV5FGfQ
https://bsky.app/profile/willpollock.com/post/3llgwxhf24s2h
A weird parallel exposing the paucity of new political ideas and party leaders with a compelling (sellable) vision.
News sources of the past showed the issues and the facts.
We had come to our own opinion based on all relative facts.
The last admin. also seemed capable to get more of the American people lifted up.
Not to say that this admin. has gotten, What done, for lifting the people up.
Perhaps you can list them for us.
It's been over 60 days in the hole.
What made it so monumental was how unqualified Trump is.
So embarrassing, Politico. 🙄