Normal people are revolting against the Democrat party of freak shows and circus actshttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/centrist-democrats-chair-dnc-00189933Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’Centrist Democrats are revolting.As they begin to dissect their collapse in the presidential election, some Democratic National Committee members are concluding that the party is too “woke,” too focused on identity politics and too out of touch with broad stretches of America.Those existential concerns, according to interviews with more than two dozen DNC members, are shaping the earliest stages of the race for DNC chair and, in the absence of a formal party autopsy, blame-casting among members about the causes of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat.“The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle,” said Joseph Paolino Jr., DNC committeeman for Rhode Island. “I’m going to look for a chair who’s going to be talking to the center and who’s going to be for the guy who drives a truck back home at the end of the day.”Or as one DNC member from Florida put it: “I don’t want to be the freak show party, like they have branded us. You know, when you’re a mom with three kids, and you live in middle America and you’re just not really into politics, and you see these ads that scare the bejesus out of you, you’re like, ‘I know Trump’s weird or whatever, but I would rather his weirdness that doesn’t affect my kids.’"
The race for chair — the party’s first real reckoning with its brutal Election Day outcome up and down the ballot — is wide open, with nearly a dozen names floated as possible successors to replace Jaime Harrison, who is not expected to run again. Potential contenders include some Democrats with formidable resumes, including Wisconsin Democratic Party leader Ben Wikler, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin, ex-White House infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, among others.Party officials are expected to wait until the next chair is seated, likely early next year, to decide on a formal review of Democrats’ failings in the election. But the recriminations over Harris’ loss to Donald Trump are already reverberating throughout the DNC — and influencing members’ outlook on the chair’s race, the first step the party will take to chart its post-defeat direction.“This is basically a rebuild job from the bottom up,” said Donna Brazile, the former Democratic National Committee chair.Amid that still-nascent overhaul, a wing of Democrats who believe the party shifted too far to the left is rising up inside the DNC.“I do think there’s this whole sentiment that we just went too far out there on identity, and it allowed the Republicans to really attack us at every turn as a result, and that we just essentially did not focus on just the everyday issues of Americans,” said one DNC member from California, granted anonymity to speak freely.“I’m not interested in anyone who is moving further away from the center,” said Cindy Bass, a Pennsylvania committee member from Philadelphia. “The center is where we have to be.”
President Joe Biden’s Democratic National Committee and his installed chair, Harrison, are by no means considered progressive insurgents. But the body has been subject to tactical shifts before. Following Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, party officials stripped superdelegates of much of their power in the presidential nominating process, a victory for the left after a primary in which superdelegates overwhelmingly supported Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Today, among at least some members of the party, there is a sense that the party has drifted too far leftward in its messaging.The concern is not just ideological but is spreading to issues of identity. Even some of the committee’s most progressive members say so.A second member from California, granted anonymity to speak openly, described a general hesitation to back a woman or person of color for party chair after Harris’ defeat. This person added that view does not square with their own outlook. But they were not alone in noticing it.“I’m disappointed that most of the names I’m hearing are men,” said Shasti Conrad, the Democratic Party chair for Washington state, one of the only states that trended toward Democrats in 2024. “I hope we get some strong female candidates, too. One of my worries is that one of the bad takes is the party thinks that we’ve tried more diverse leadership, and maybe that doesn’t work.”One DNC member, granted anonymity to assess the field of potential chairs frankly, said, “It’s White Guy Winter.”Virgie Rollins, the DNC Black Caucus chair, said she will “wait and see if someone from the Black Caucus wants to step up” to run to lead the committee. But she added, no matter what, “my caucus is going to be very much involved in who the chair is going to be.”
>>1362654This sort of thing is always so interesting.The Democrat party spends so time time, effort and money on how they can best manipulate the American public into having a positive image. They constantly reassess what issues they tell their politicians to talk about and what buzzwords to use/avoid.They don't have a single politician that is genuine or authentic, it's all manufactured image and propaganda
There is a HUGE population of progress Democrats, largely young, working age people. The problem is that the Democrats were pushing progressive in the wrong direction, focusing on identity politics. People are BEGGING for somebody like Bernie Sanders. Less BLM/trans shit that doesn't affect majority of working Americans, and more anti establishment thinking and distance from Israel.
>>1362673>The problem is that the Democrats were pushing progressive in the wrong direction, focusing on identity politics. People are BEGGING for somebody like Bernie Sanders. Less BLM/trans shit that doesn't affect majority of working Americans, and more anti establishment thinking and distance from Israel.100000000%
>>1362659As a natsoc, people love what I have to say. They believe in it all. They just don’t like the word nazi. That’s all. The left's mask has finally been torn away to reveal the rotten heart underneath. They and the rest of the so-called resistance will never be a force in this country again after Trump is done with them.>>1362675No they aren't. They crave purpose, order, and enemies to conquer. They don't want the government to be serving them, they want a clear objective with clear results that benefits the volk.
>>1362679this. people want a dictator or monarch but they dont want to call it it. democracy just doesnt work but people are still too attached to the idea of it because they have been indoctrinated by hundreds years of leftist liberalism thought. the indoctrination has weakened just like it had in the 1920-30 as the left and enlightnements hand slips and americans are waking up to the same thing the russian people realized that you need a strong and firm and wise hand to guide the nation.
>>1362680>same thing the russian people realized that you need a strong and firm and wise hand to guide the nation.How's that working out for you right now with that 2 year "2-week long special operation", rapidly diminishing currency value, and executions of every single person who says anything vaguely relating to "Maybe this Ukraine thing isn't a good idea"?
>>1362681pretty good especially after don lifts sanctions. ukraine farmland and livingspace will be back in its place. maybe we get an abrics soon against eu and china.
>>1362682>It'll be fine in just two more weeks!
>>1362682BRICS literally has China in it, you vatnik.
>>1362680Listen, idiot. One more time. True democracy never existed in the USA. And even less so now. Wealthy elites control both parties and the media. You think tRump has power? N'yuck N'yuck. Look at what happened to JFK.
>>1362687>You think tRump has power?If I am to believe what I've been told, he will be a dictator with absolute power
>>1362690If you believe what he says, he will be a dictator with absolute power on Day 1.
>>1362687>You think tRump has power?He has as much power as the richfags, courts, and congress are willing to give him.For richfags, two of the richest men in the word, Thiel and Musk support him, with several others like Bezos bowing down to him. Thiel in particular is really into NRx (think society structured around corpo techfeudalism, basically a bunch of rich tech magnates who saw Neuromancer and Snow Crash as aspirational). For courts, well the supreme court did say that he couldn't be prosecuted by the courts if he used the military to assassinate people he didn't like, so ditto there. Unchecked power of death trumps any other power.For congress, we'll see. Congress has usually been the biggest thorn in his (and any presidents') side, even if your own power is dominant. They probably won't give him everything he wants, but enough to make some trouble. I don't think congress would be too keen on shit like a vaccine ban (biotech lobby) or general tariff, for instance. Congress has the power of the purse, which is basically the on/off switch for the government as well.
>>1362698>even if your own power is dominant.even if your own *party* is dominant
>>1362698It's amazing that you don't think Trump is one of the richfags.
>>1362740He's rich, but he's not Bezos, Thiel, or Musk rich. Like Elon is over 300 billion dollars. That's 300,000 million, and that was before he made 70 billion in stocks alone after Trump won.
>>1362743They're the same rich guy wearing different faces.
>>1362673current day democrats are a bigotted party of racists that co-opted the movement and put a you're with us or against us label on the rest of the party.Then proceeded to add in more and more regressive movements like trans rights to subvert female rights, as a loyalty test.If you want an idea of a person democrats consider the enemy look at JK rowling a hardcore feminist who agrees with 99% of their stances and even defending trans people existing just saying she didn't want them infringing on female rights.
>>1362807TRVTH NVKE
>>1362780trump isn't on the level of a really rich person that's what he's saying. Trump's networth wasn't even a billion until recently when he issued the DJT stock.
>>1362654Not my heckin tranny boogeymanarino! Not the heckin science on climate change! Nooooooo! I want to go back to the 50’s!
>>1362654>Normal people are revolting against the Democrat party of freak shows and circus actsYou forgot "cult". It's also a cult.
>>1362654>Literally every single poll and analysis shows that economy was the deciding factor of this election>"Hmmm, maybe if Dems talked less about trans people, unlike Republicans who made it a cornerstone of their proposed legislation, they would've won."
>>1362807>>1362808>>1362886Holy christ the Twitter leftists who aren't even Americans have done a number on you boomers
>>1362809You must be very young to not remember Trump being marketed to the American public as the #1 rich guy in the 80s, 90s, and 00s.
>>1362892>You're all boomers!>>1362893>You're all zoomers!It's like you are so upset your just grasping at straws now
>>1362680No, people don't want a dictator or monarch. Drones and NPCs do. The USA is a constitutional Republic and while it's not perfect it's better than getting fucked by some totalitarian inbred cunt. Just because you're weak and need shit spelled out for you by the govt doesn't mean everyone else is
>>1362931Not their fault that you don't know American social history. Trump has always been portrayed as being really rich, his whole public life. These newer super billionaires weren't around when Trump first became prominent
