Do you think that just maybe we really need to win this presidential election in 2020? Like, it’s not an option?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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2020 is necessary just like every other election in the past 20 years were necessary.
We’re where we’re at because we lost 3 elections that we should have won.
Sometimes I think that ultimately, the only thing we can accomplish is minimizing the damage that is inevitable, while preparing for what’s next.
Kinda like Asimov’s plot line for Hari Seldon in the first Foundation novel.
I’ve been saying Trump is The Mule since 2015.
How do you reckon? That is just too interesting a comment to just throw out there without elaborating!
Assuming we win the citizenship court case, its a boon for our congressional redistricting and there is a low skill labor shortage. Would have been an own goal.
…what they think the options are. And Steny, and Dick, and all the other elected Democratic leaders. What does Barry think? They seem cool with losing again. Nancy’s back in the driver’s seat herself, so she’s good. The rest of them seem no different now than they did during the glory days back in 2009 and 2010. And don’t all of them always say “all options are on the table?” So decisive. I believe them.
Look. It’s a fair question, whether or not Nancy Pelosi (who’s been in Congress for over 21 years) or Chuck Schumer (who’s been in Congress for over 37 years) or Steny Hoyer (who’s been in Congress as long as Schumer) or Dick Durbin (who’s also been in Congress for practically his whole adult life) have a real clue any more what’s going on in this country. They’ve been captive to inside politics and holding power and expanding their domains for too long. They squelch and stultify the future of the Democratic Party and demonstrate by their reluctance to retire that they have no faith in it. Talented politicians know when to get off.
You’re asserting with your “They’re cool with losing again” trolling comment that the Congressional leadership is so bad that they’re determinative of future electoral outcomes. Well, then how did the Party’s 2018 House candidates overcome horribly distorting gerrymands in a number of States to retake the majority? How did the Senate candidates manage to ford decently through a horrendous map?
Important skills for any majority House leadership to have:
Pelosi’s leadership teams this decade have been far superior in executing these crucial jobs than any House leadership in recent decades. If they weren’t great at those crucial jobs it would be easier to find members who could garner votes from the House caucus to replace them.
Let’s cut the generalized “out of touch” criticisms. Who would be a better Speaker than Pelosi? Who would be better in the other leadership roles? What evidence do you have that your preferred alternatives would be better? Let’s put names and persuasive arguments for your preferred alternatives on the table.
With a full-force fascist President and House Republican caucus, if this House majority fucked up the difficult jobs of legislative blocking and tackling, it would be tragic for our movement, our nation and the world.
Well worth repeating when the primaries heat up
This is one reason the primaries get so heated. We must win. The only way to win is to support my candidate, warts and all. Your candidate will lose.
Everything stems from losing the 1968 election. Literally everything. Weird but true.
Electing Nixon meant vindicating the Southern Strategy that led to decades of GOP dominance.
That led to 4 S.Ct. justices who ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that there’s a constitutional right to bribe politicians, leading to the current politics in which billionaires dominate everything and lowered their taxes so they could dominate even more.
That led to actually ELECTING a right-wing billionaire in Trump.
If we had control over the S.Ct. all this time none of this would have been happening. Gerrymandering would be unconstitutional. Instead of the 1971 Campaign Finance law being unconstitutional, we would have built on it.
Fox News would be banned under a “not in the public interest” FCC ruling forcing divestment. And the nation would be able to come together, instead of being fatally divided.
And we would have done something 25 years ago about Global Warming so it wouldn’t be a threat to destroy human civilization.
Now we are in a state of permanent emergency where we may not even be able to keep our Democracy because millions of insane Fox News programmed idiots think that fascism is great and they were able to elect a man who thinks that Nazis “are good people.”
It could be said that the single bullet that deprived us of RFK is still reverberating…
Everyday there’s more news from our fascist right wing. Here’s Alan Greenspan as reported on CNBC today
He’s talking about social security and Medicare. It’s idiotic since cutting those entitlements means people have less to spend in the economy and some will fall into poverty. Just idiotic. But if you got yours screw those others.
And then we hear Trump wanted to bus illegals immigrants to sanctuary cities. Of course, he is a hate filled man hoping he can stir up trouble.
And the religious Mike Pence goes after Buttigieg about his beliefs. What a guy.
We are under attack every. single. day. We gotta win for our own sanity, our family and children.
Elizabeth Warren.
Seconded. And it’s not even close.