Posted on 08/21/2017 4:30:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
At the Netroots Nation conference in Atlanta, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the darling of the progressive Left, was blunt and straightforward in her vision of the party. They’re in a rut because they’re not left wing enough and further left is where they should go. Ever since the 2016 primaries, the Warren/Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wing of the party has become more vocal, more active, and completely blinded with rage over Donald Trump’s 2016 win. Many are saying the moderate, centrist path that kept Bill Clinton in the White House for two terms is over, and that Jon Ossoff, who lost the most expensive House race in Georgia, lost because he took a middle way in messaging. They’re gung-ho about making single-payer the new litmus test. First, they’re having a fight about abortion and whether backing pro-life Democrats is akin to making a deal with the devil. Right now, after playing defense, or not even speaking much at all, the more even-keeled (for lack of a better term) Democrats—many of them Obama and Clinton supporters— are pushing back, warning that this rush to the Lenin line is going to backfire—big league (via The Hill) [emphasis mine]:
Moderate Democrats are pushing back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) view that progressives have taken control of the party.
“We can't win the House back with progressives running in swing states,” said former Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), a surrogate for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton who is leading the Fight Back California super PAC aimed at winning back seven House seats in the Golden State.
Interviews with Democratic strategists, donors and organizers from across the country reveal deep disagreement with Warren’s premise that progressives make up the “heart and soul” of the Democratic Party.
Warren offered that synopsis during a speech at the liberal Netroots Nation conference last weekend, adding that progressives are in control of the party.
The Democrats who disagree with Warren are generally from the center of the party, and many were staunch supporters of former President Barack Obama and Clinton.
The clash is further proof of the divide in the party after 2016’s disappointment. Even as they face a Republican Party torn over how to deal with President Trump, Democrats are still trying to figure out what kind of a party they are.
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"I'm wary of pendulum politics," one former senior administration official to Obama said. "We can't whiplash the country."
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Democratic strategist Jim Manley, who served as a spokesman to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said while support has grown for many progressive issues, including a single-payer healthcare system, the party is in the midst of a rebuilding process and trying to figure out its next steps.
“I don't think we as a party can be casting too many people aside,” Manley said. “We need to figure out how to grow and bring everybody together. I realize that's happy talk but that's the reality. When you start talking about purity tests, that's a little problematic.”
There’s good reason for the non-Sander-ite wing of the party to feel this way. First, its true—Democrats will not be able to retake the House, Senate, or the presidency with just die-hard, socialist-spewing Democrats. Abortion on demand is not popular. Open borders and coddling illegal aliens who commit crimes is not popular. And single-payer is a very volatile issue, which I’m betting support will drop when voters realize that access to specialized doctors and care will be reduced in exchange for $32 trillion in tax hikes. If the progressive hounds in the cities would cool it with the identity politics, the political correctness, and the lectures on so-called white privilege, maybe a more rural-based Democratic crop can grow and maybe give the GOP a run for its money. Right now, the political apparatus of the Democratic Party in rural America have all due died out, with a candidate farming system that’s ceased to exist as well. Maximizing your position in the cities is not going to win you elections. You can’t win by just playing with 15% (the percentage of the U.S. population from the 100 biggest cities) of the population.
Sign of a red-state Dem in a tough re-election. (McCaskill said Dems made a mistake passing legislation "with just Democratic votes.") https://t.co/S4tj2KD138— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 17, 2017
Right now, the Cook Political Report placed Missouri, Indiana, and West Virginia in the toss-up column. North Dakota has gone from likely Democratic to lean Democratic. The only GOP seat, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, went from likely Republican to toss up. In Missouri, Claire McCaskill is walking a waffled line on health care, opposing, and then being open to single-payer. She also said passing Obamacare was a mistake. In Indiana, Joe Donnelly, who tried to paint himself as a pro-worker, anti-outsourcing warrior, was exposed as someone who profited from outsourced labor from his family’s arts and crafts company, where he previously served as a corporate officer. West Virginia is just deep red, with Joe Manchin possibly entering the fight for his political life. Its governor, Jim Justice, a Democrat, recently switched parties. Except for Nevada, every state went heavily for Trump. The party’s money woes also certainly don’t help, as they will definitely need a sizable war chest to fund this all-out assault on Trump’s America. For that, Democrats need to rebuild their small donor base, which has also collapsed. Barack Obama said he's going to try to perform a "delicate dance" and keep a light footprint ahead of the midterms to help rebuild his party. It might require something more than that, which means the danger of the GOP becoming energized like they were in 2016.
DNC Chair Tom Perez Gives Weak Excuse For Worst April Fundraising Since 2009
You go girl! Keep it up Fauxcahontis! Why not try something that is sure to get the Dems elected. Try land reform. Those rich, white crackas should not have all that land! Take it back and share it with the ‘undocumented immigrants’. Don’t they deserve all the benefits of being American without the responsibilities like paying taxes and serving in the military? Land reform was so successful in Zimbabwe and Venezuela, it could work here, too! Fifth Ammendment property rights? Why not repeal it?
Also, with all the gun violence, you should campaign on setting up a gun registry to control all the illegal guns getting into citizens’ hands. Who cares about the second amendment!
Another campaign platform might be to grant citizenship to all ‘undocumented immigrants’ who surrender to their duly elected Democratic politician. Campaign especially hard to reunite ALL Muslim families separated by war. Bring in aunties and uncles and Grandpas and Grandmas and cousins and friends and lets not forget imams... Let’s reunite them all!
Those are three campaign platform ideas that should help get the Democratic Party back in control of Congress.
</YUUUUGE sarc>
Let’s MAGA and let’s MDPDA! (Make Democratic Party Dead Again!)
Attacking monuments is technically terrorism. That seems like something we can use in 2018. Americans are not generally supportive of such behavior. Let those crazy refers have more rope. Then hang them with it.
Does this mean they are TARGETING certain areas?
Didn’t S Palin become ‘The Wicked Witch’ and a certain AZ Congresscritter ‘Beatified’ because of Palins ‘targeting’?
And did Sarah Palin use the word AIM when referring to targeting?
Just wondering MSM...
If they think Hillary and Barack the First were too far to the right, America will be in deep trouble once they retake power.
Look, there are no moderate or even-keeled Demon Rats. There are LIARS (like Hitlery and Obama and Tauscher) who try to talk like they're "sensible" and then there are PROUD KOOKS (like Warren and Sanders and Waters) who emphatically say what the others believe.
Remember that line from Hussein when he FAILED to get Hitlery in power? He'd mention TRUMP to a cacophany of hate-filled shouts and jeers, and he'd say in that fake professor's voice:
And the cultists in his audience would cheer like he was some kind of genius.
Well, I want to see RINOs and DEMON RATS defeated so overwhelmingly in the Senate races of 2018 that there is ANOTHER election where we can show the establishment that the legislature is there to WORK WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP to destroy and eviscerate the domestic enemies of America that have foisted things like Obamacare upon the populace.
I want Democrats like Donnelly and Manchin and McCaskill CRUSHED. I also want RINOs like Capito and Heller and Flake REMOVED and replaced with Constitution lovers.
Another sea change.
Let's do it.
(steps off soapbox)
They have more losing to do.
True. I also noticed that the planned events in Houston and Dallas didn’t work so well for the alt-left, even though both cities are run by Democrats.
You mean, if not for toppling statues, the South would go Dem? It alienates the already alienated South, but it solidifies the coasties and Illinois, along with the snowflake base.
>>It’s alienating apolitical people across the country, particularly scholars.
Many thinking people see that this doesn’t stop at a few Confederate statues erected during/post Reconstruction, or even during the desegregation era. Already the Leftist SJW vanguard is pushing for removing Jefferson memorials, for example. Replacing Jefferson with Marx seems like a great idea! < /s>
Of course, the whole thing begs the question of why this is suddenly so important, when it wasn’t at all important for 8 years while Obama was President. People need to wise up as to when they’re being played.
I expect them to fail.
They have uncorked a bottle. That Gennie will not go back in.
Same with the Islamics.
They think they can control these factions and still keep their wacky base but they are mistaken.
Their boat is not able to handle these fish.
We need to remind them come 2018 and 2020. The media certainly won't.
Didn’t Trotsky get assassintated in Mexico with a ice pick to the brain?
They’re circling the jerk instead of the wagons, imagining that this will protect them from the slings of arrows of outrageous fortune. What excuse will they have when they’re confronted with utter defeat again and again? The Jooos! dood it? The Taiwanese? How sweet it is!
Paramilitary enforcers do not go over well in America. The MSM has thrown in their lots with antifa, proclaiming that they’re bravely fighting racism. Thin ice to skate on.
We must do our best to ridicule them at every opportunity. That’s the most effective way to combat fascists.
How many antifas does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Screw it in? That has rapacious sexual connotations, and pays homage to that racist Thomas Edison. It takes two. One to smash the lightbulb, and one to smash the fragments, jump up on down on them while making angry chimp noises, and both of them to assault the racist who wanted to screw in a lightbulb, and then bust up the hardware store from which he purchased it. That’ll show Thomas Edison.
That's funny.
It also shows how ridiculous these nuts are.
I think they are looking for a "Kent State" moment that they can hang their hat on, but it may turn against them.
The tear gas party they "enjoyed" yesterday had no racial overtones on it and was poorly attended.
I think there is enough alternative news to the MSM that exposes them to get away with what they were able to do in the '70's.
There is no "Walter Cronkite" type trusted reporting anymore.
I think they will be laid bare for all to see in the next few weeks.
And we must laugh them off the stage, not violently drive them off, but jeer and deride them so that nobody takes them seriously ever again.
0bama broke his party, now he thinks he’ll fix it? Lol lol lol
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