A bad presidential candidate effects down ballot races.
Which is why Hillary probably still would have handed Republicans the House and Senate if she didn’t take all the states parties funds for her victory tour.
trumps daughter in law controls the RNC’s purse strings tho, they’re probably doing a similar grift already.
Which is why it’s important to keep pressure on Harris from the left. If she gets both houses and doesn’t do anything because she only hears from the right. It’s just handing Republicans one or both houses back for the midterms.
Now more than ever, we have to be ready to get shit done on day one. None of this shit Biden pulls where he assumed office and “looked into” shit until we couldn’t pass the party platform.
F me I wish Republican majorities weren’t a threat and that they were actually worried about a Democrat super-majority in both Houses. Impeach 2 of the SC and replace with Judges that aren’t corrupt, get those territories (and DC) full Statehood, expressly codify trans, worker, and healthcare rights into the Constitution, and give all the newly blue (in this fantasy of mine) States the opportunity to undo their BS gerrymandering.
The thing is, it really wouldn’t take much to get there.
People’s standards are a lot lower than January 2016. Obviously even with both houses, we’re not gonna get everything.
But if they still hold votes, and Harris uses the bully pulpit to name and shame everyone voting against party platform, the party won’t lose the voters.
We’ll lose the politicians acting against their voters wishes, and replace them with more liberal options in fair and open primaries. Some might stay in office, but we just keep doing it till we get the numbers.
Less then a decade and we’ll have solid supermajorities and actually able to fix shit for good.
It’s literally right there in our reach, we just need Harris to stick her arm out and grab it. She has the potential to be the biggest name in US history books 50 years from now.
While I wish Biden did more, he did get a ton of fantastic policy through.
Anything that helped the people too much was stymied by Manchin and Sinema (arguably the list would continue with centrists peeling off from Democrats) and the supreme court.
Hopefully a landslide win happens and meaningful legislation is quickly passed. Bringing gov’t programs up to speed for helping the middle class would probably cement democratic leadership for at least a decade
While I wish Biden did more, he did get a ton of fantastic policy through.
You mean legislation that he didn’t veto?
If that counts in his pro column, then everything else that didn’t pass goes in the con column.
Biden himself wouldn’t shut up about how he couldn’t change someone’s mind even if they had a D by their name. So I’m interested in how you take that comment and rationalize giving him credit for how they vote.
I mean. He literally said it would be useless for him to try so why should he try… Then you want to clap for him because he didn’t veto something?
Walz is exactly what a democratic “moderate” should be
He might be further to the right than some want, but when they say that. Dude sits down and listens to them and is willing to change his mind.
I don’t think he’ll specifically pull Kamala to the left. But I think if the base disagrees with Kamala, he’ll push for her to listen to what they have to say and to keep an open mind.
It’s kind of depressing that’s such a unique thing, but it’s good it’s happening and I hope it signals a change for the moderate wing.
I don’t think we’d have gotten someone like that if people weren’t vocal about their issues with Biden and his responses. Which is why I think it’s important we keep it up. If the only people pushing for “moderates” to change direction are from the right, we can’t act surprised when they always move right.
We dont have billionaires lobbying for us, we got to make the noise ourselves.
A bad presidential candidate effects down ballot races.
Which is why Hillary probably still would have handed Republicans the House and Senate if she didn’t take all the states parties funds for her victory tour.
trumps daughter in law controls the RNC’s purse strings tho, they’re probably doing a similar grift already.
Which is why it’s important to keep pressure on Harris from the left. If she gets both houses and doesn’t do anything because she only hears from the right. It’s just handing Republicans one or both houses back for the midterms.
Now more than ever, we have to be ready to get shit done on day one. None of this shit Biden pulls where he assumed office and “looked into” shit until we couldn’t pass the party platform.
There’s zero excuse to repeat that
F me I wish Republican majorities weren’t a threat and that they were actually worried about a Democrat super-majority in both Houses. Impeach 2 of the SC and replace with Judges that aren’t corrupt, get those territories (and DC) full Statehood, expressly codify trans, worker, and healthcare rights into the Constitution, and give all the newly blue (in this fantasy of mine) States the opportunity to undo their BS gerrymandering.
The thing is, it really wouldn’t take much to get there.
People’s standards are a lot lower than January 2016. Obviously even with both houses, we’re not gonna get everything.
But if they still hold votes, and Harris uses the bully pulpit to name and shame everyone voting against party platform, the party won’t lose the voters.
We’ll lose the politicians acting against their voters wishes, and replace them with more liberal options in fair and open primaries. Some might stay in office, but we just keep doing it till we get the numbers.
Less then a decade and we’ll have solid supermajorities and actually able to fix shit for good.
It’s literally right there in our reach, we just need Harris to stick her arm out and grab it. She has the potential to be the biggest name in US history books 50 years from now.
While I wish Biden did more, he did get a ton of fantastic policy through.
Anything that helped the people too much was stymied by Manchin and Sinema (arguably the list would continue with centrists peeling off from Democrats) and the supreme court.
Hopefully a landslide win happens and meaningful legislation is quickly passed. Bringing gov’t programs up to speed for helping the middle class would probably cement democratic leadership for at least a decade
You mean legislation that he didn’t veto?
If that counts in his pro column, then everything else that didn’t pass goes in the con column.
Biden himself wouldn’t shut up about how he couldn’t change someone’s mind even if they had a D by their name. So I’m interested in how you take that comment and rationalize giving him credit for how they vote.
I mean. He literally said it would be useless for him to try so why should he try… Then you want to clap for him because he didn’t veto something?
which is why the walz VP pick is interesting. he seems to spend political capital quickly and effectively
its going to be clear early on how much influence progressives really have in a potential harris administration.
Walz is exactly what a democratic “moderate” should be
He might be further to the right than some want, but when they say that. Dude sits down and listens to them and is willing to change his mind.
I don’t think he’ll specifically pull Kamala to the left. But I think if the base disagrees with Kamala, he’ll push for her to listen to what they have to say and to keep an open mind.
It’s kind of depressing that’s such a unique thing, but it’s good it’s happening and I hope it signals a change for the moderate wing.
I don’t think we’d have gotten someone like that if people weren’t vocal about their issues with Biden and his responses. Which is why I think it’s important we keep it up. If the only people pushing for “moderates” to change direction are from the right, we can’t act surprised when they always move right.
We dont have billionaires lobbying for us, we got to make the noise ourselves.