Posted on 10/28/2025 11:22:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Deciding to Win grew out of discussions centrist Democrats had last December, after their loss to President Donald Trump and a rush of panicky takes about what the party did wrong.
While embarking on its long-term polling project, the group also consulted an array of Democrats, including Schultz, former Biden White House spokesman Andrew Bates, and House Majority PAC founder Alixandria Lapp.
“I felt like there had been a real lack of reckoning among what actually happened,” said Simon Bazelon, the principal author of the report. “A lot of what we’re arguing for is a return to Obama-era positioning on issues like immigration and crime, and prioritization of the economy over cultural issues,” he explained.
The report doesn’t urge Democrats to move fully to the right, reserving vocal praise for several progressive stars in the party with a more direct appeal to economic opportunity and lower cost of living.
“We have much to learn from the relentless focus of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani” on those fronts, the authors write.
The risk they see is in Democrats moving left on other progressive policies, which even some in the party establishment have done while criticizing Mamdani and other democratic socialists. From 2013 to 2024, between the beginning of Barack Obama’s second term and the end of Joe Biden’s sole term, the report offers clear metrics to show how the party changed its language and gave support to left-wing bills that had little chance of passage.
Over those 11 years, the share of congressional Democratic co-sponsors of a bill to study reparations for the descendents of slaves rose from 1% to 57%. Support for assault weapons ban legislation grew from 41% to 88%; support for giving federal prisoners full voting rights grew from 4% to 41%; and support for legislation that would wipe...
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Sounds like they want to go back to their formerly successful strategy of pretending to be Republicans during elections years to get elected/re-elected, and then going back to their leftists ways the rest of the time.
Left wing ideas have EXPOSED the goal of the demorat party...
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/06/journolist-wonders-who-leaked-039011
Their brand is socialism. Which was “wrecked” years and years ago over and over in many attempts.
They went for a “get clicks” strategy. Symbolized by AOC, but not limited to her.
New Yorkers are falling for the same b.s. “We are the change we believe in” and “the skies and water will heal” bs promises Obama did forever ago.
“Where’s the plan, man? Where’s the money coming from?”
Call social workers instead of police? So the social workers can get beat up as well as the innocent victims?
Democrats are a completely FEMINIZED party at this point. All about feelings and nothing to do with facts and reality.
Easy to see why they’re falling to a 30-40% voter level.
“We have much to learn from the relentless focus of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani” on those fronts, the authors write.
WHAT lower cost of living? Their lunatic "green" agenda and higher minimum wages raises the cost of virtually everything (energy, housing, cars, etc.). They mean the government giving out lots of free stuff, such as free college education.
Somebody still has to pay for all that "free" stuff of course. Presumably the "rich" pick up the tab. What if they can't get extract enough from the rich to pay for it all (and they can't)? Their brains don't really dwell on that little detail.
Deep down in their hearts they’re all Marxists.
They’re just running out of clever ways to hide it, and not just a few are boldly stating Marxist beliefs.
“. . .Obama-era positioning.” This is a euphemism for Obama Marxist lying. He was “The Great Divider” that revived racism and leftist envy at a time when our Nation was healing wounds that began festering again during the LBLJ era.
This just tells us that some people will vote Democrat, regardless of how far left they go. We underestimate the ignorance of the voters, and their control of the voting process.
I’m not so sure. I think the left has dumbed down the public to the point where the masses crave for that which will destroy their lives.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
The DemonRat party deserves total annihilation — nothing less is acceptable. Complete destruction, never again to raise its ugly demonic head.
If a true study reparations for the descendents of slaves was done it needs to be in Africa the blacks sold their own people
No product no sales no slavery.
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