As we chart the path forward, one important thing we can do as a party is to respectfully decline the advice of people who spent the past year helping Trump by telling people not to vote for Democrats.
Demanding Senate Republicans back Gaetz as attorney general and Hegseth as Defense Secretary is the 2024 version of forcing Sean Spicer to say it was the largest inauguration crowd ever.
These aren't just appointments. They're loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.
Democrats overperformed in Colorado compared to the USA b/c Polis & CO Dems stay ruthlessly on message that the goal is to "save people money"
Expanding healthcare, more housing, more transit, better schools, childcare, etc., all packaged as "saving people money"
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There is a good amount of (relatively, compared to the rest of the Northeast corridor) cheap housing here in Baltimore. We got Lamar Jackson, Natty Bohs, and Mr. Trash Wheel. Come join the party!!
Him and the movement he spurred have been an albatross around the neck of the democrats since 2015. Democrats who reject his nonsense will continue to win the day. The more you adopt their BS, the more you will lose.
Biden acquiesced to essentially every left-wing demand during his administration.
The idea that working class voters want what the left-wing is offering flies in the face of all the evidence over the past 8 years.
Sorry Zarah but the Democrats didn't lose because of Israel.
The entire country swung right and if anything the repulsive pro-Hamas rallies of the past year probably contributed to this
Going to take a bold stance against post mortems and reflection. Let's look at the most recent examples:
1) In their 2012 post-mortem, Republicans decided they needed to support immigration reform, then totally did the opposite and won anyway.
NO. Because people were never reacting to inflation, or food prices, or housing costs, or any of it! It's all just a memelike social phenomenon, and now it'll switch to "I can afford food again" and everyone will believe it.
Prosperity and abundance agenda. We have focused on saving people money through three income tax rate reductions (two at the ballot box and one through the leg: 4.63%>4.5%>4.4%>4.25%), cutting property taxes, free preschool and kindergarten for every child, eliminating sales tax on necessities like diapers and feminine hygiene products, and we are in the process of delivering on pro-housing supply solutions, investing in transit and transit-enhanced living opportunities… all while protecting and expanding personal freedom and respect for everyone
Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.”
There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.
Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.