But by pushing Justice Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and her fellow squad members, to the fore, the Trump campaign has Democrats right where they want them.
This would deny the fact that each of those won a primary and the general election in their districts, which is kinda the point of politics in a democratic system. Their districts deserve to be represented by those who share their views and goals and promote those to the best of their abilities.
They also deserve honest representation that doesn’t capitulate to deep-pocket donors or party leaders over their best interests. Sacrificing the best interests of the people to promote a party is the territory the GOP has staked out and antithetical to the stated goals of the Democratic party. Unity is only useful when it serves a purpose that is meaningful, and not just bragging rights. Majorities in Congress do no one any good if the representatives are beholding to the same corporate interests the GOP works for.
As a result, some big Democratic donors are not prepared to support Warren for President if Democrats nominate her. Some have even threatened to support Trump in 2020.
Thanks for making my point even clearer.
If our political process is ever to evolve beyond what is best for corporate donors and reflect the will of the people they will have to make such donations the kiss of death for a candidate, regardless of how many ad spots the candidate runs. The extreme inequity of our present economy is largely due to Democrats who are willing to sell out the people to maintain their own political futures, which is the underlying purpose of third way neoliberals. If a donor can that easily slide over to Trump, after seeing the devastation he is responsible for no Democrat should be soliciting funding from them.
When both Karl Rove and Rahm Emmanuel say worry, worry.
What is worrying about this is the fact that Emmanuel was ever seriously considered to be a Democrat. I’m pretty sure they have agreed far more than you realize in the past.
Remove any Democratic connections to the past, to the halcyon days of President Barack Obama. Remove any appeal to moderates who long to a return of the normal, boring politics of yesterday.
What you, and the Democratic party, fail to recognize is that Trump beat Hillary by running to her left on major issues the voters were concerned with. He even framed his racist immigration policy around jobs. Yes, he lied far more than Hillary could have gotten away with, but that was because she, and Obama, had records and Trump didn’t. He lies because he can, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he appealed to Obama’s “change” voters after Obama failed to follow through, and Hillary promised to move even further to the right.
The desire for “real” change among voters is still there, as Trump has obviously not satisfied it. There may be some fatigue based desire to return to Obama’s policies and start over, but I believe the voters have one more “change” election in them, “IF” it is not simply a “we are not Trump” kind of approach that leaves the root causes of their problems in place, which is the overly friendly relationship between our government and the corporate monied interests that are declared enemies of any hope for the middle class and poor.
Establishment Democrats that support the proven failed trickle-down, market based economic theories of RayGun should not be surprised when they get primary challenges from young and still hopeful fighters for the people and lose. In spite of an official declaration of the ’08 recession ending somewhere in ’11, most of America hasn’t yet recovered and it proved to them that one cannot eat GDP and record stock price levels.
As a result, Americans are far more open to a radical change in the metrics of how we measure success and how we approach the business/government relationship. Placing all of our eggs in the Wall St basket has not been a winner for most workers, and seeing their “Democratic” leadership chip away their social capital over decades has made them more open to other options.
For Democrats, it means not relying on polls that predict a comfortable Democratic win by anyone Democrats put up against Trump in 2020; they are the same polls that were so disastrously wrong in 2016.
I believe that this election offers Democrats a rare opportunity to reset itself. It will elect any Dem it nominates that isn’t Trump level crazy and likely retake the Senate while keeping control in the house, all thanks to Trump and the GOP’s falling in line with the fascist madman. However, if it doesn’t offer more empowerment to the people than it has since Clinton it will guarantee a GOP return to power in ’24, and the GOP candidate will not be crazy. It will likely be a female along the lines of Haly or Earnst, and the Dems will lose in monumental fashion.
Choosing correctly to serve the working middle-class and poor, in compliance with its roots in FDR’s New Deal, is the only option that offers the economic success the people are starved of and that can stave off such an opposition. Four years isn’t long enough to rebuild such a massive economy from scratch, but it is long enough to present some wins that give people hope that their champion is back and working for them again, and not the deep-pocket donors they have served since ‘80.
