Posted on 03/01/2025 11:13:56 AM PST by DFG
“Nature hates a vacuum” is a truism that applies especially to politics.
Since President Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in November, peeling off many formerly loyal Democratic voters from diverse communities, much of the talk has been about the Democratic Party being rudderless, leaderless and lost.
Viewers of CNN and MSNBC — as well as various other left-of-center media outlets — will have noticed that Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have been making regular appearances of late. Why?
One explanation I have heard from Democratic operatives is that Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez are trying to fill the vacuum created by Harris’s loss, the absence of a clear 2028 frontrunner and a coherent agenda. With chaos comes opportunity — opportunity, perhaps, for them.
They are correct to believe that such chaos has created a timely window for them to generate a great deal of attention for themselves. But what cost might their rise inflict upon the Democratic Party in 2028?
To paraphrase the line from “Top Gun,” are the egos of Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez writing checks that their records and real-world experience can’t cash? Do they even care? Or have they so bought into the calculation that they could become president that nothing else matters — not even the good of the Democratic Party?
Long ago, my old boss, former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) joked, “The most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera.” That same joke seems to apply today to Crockett and Ocasio-Cortez.
The two have a built-in constituency, but it is a constituency that is shrinking rapidly, built around messages that failed in 2024.
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no
they are doing great
more airtime for the einsteins of the dem party
These two brain-dead morons becoming the voice of the Dems would be the best thing...for the Republicans to win in 2026 and 2028.
No. Sadly they are popular, and viewed as refreshing and resonate with people who don’t normally connect personally to politicians. Even voter in AOC’s district famously went for Trump while remaining committed to her.
Instead of dismissing them, better to acknowledge their talent and pray they stop wasting it in to the trashbin of Leftism.
No, strike that. They should DOUBLE DOWN on what they've been doing.
Keep hammering woke crap, no borders, defund police, racism racism racism. They need to message MORE!
Lets add Buttplug and Hogg to the mess.
This will really improve the DNC’s chances.
Keep them out front and visible!
No. Sadly they are popular, and viewed as refreshing and resonate with people who don’t normally connect personally to politicians. Even voter in AOC’s district famously went for Trump while remaining committed to her. Instead of dismissing them, better to acknowledge their talent and pray they stop wasting it in to the trashbin of Leftism.
“These two brain-dead morons becoming the voice of the Dems would be the best thing...for the Republicans to win in 2026 and 2028.”
Plus the Dems have a great start on those loses with moron David Hog being elected as the party’s wingman ...
We underestimate at our own peril, Republicans often shoot ourselves in the foot with things like letting Ronna McDaniel lead the RNC for so long.
Let’s hope we win 2026. If the house goes democrat, it will be endless trump impeachments and Elon hearings. America doesn’t deserve that.
Nope.
The more they see their names in print, the more they act out. Keeping their names in front of the public in order to advance politically, rather than to fill the responsibilities of their job as the employees of their districts. A media blackout would be the proper approach to dealing with them.
Keep em’ talkin’.
There are so many bad ideas rolled up in one. I’ll start with the focus on 2028, which is two years too late. In the 2026 midterms, there are 22Rs coming up in Senate elections to just 13Ds. If the Dems don’t make significant headway, ideally taking control, they are in for a stretch of hyper-minority status. They have six Dem senators who are far too old to stand for re-election. Rather than have four opt out late this year or early next and the other two coming up for re-election looking as addled as can be, all four should announce now that they’re retiring and hoping for younger candidates and bold, new, more centrist ideas. This does not get them new seats directly, of course, but it establishes urgency and sets the tone.
In 1986 and 2014 midterms, the president’s party lost 8-9 seats. This should be possible in 2026. Of course, no one sees this as possible, not even me, but the Dems can’t throw in the towel. They have to go for it — but almost certainly won’t.
Next, Donald Trump will replace two more SCOTUS judges before the midterms. I think it’s a coin toss or better that he then replaces CJ John Roberts in 2028. No one is talking about this, but having Trump claim even five justices is mind blowing; and if Roberts also retires, there is no exaggerating how much this will empower those six justices to innovate. All of roughly the same age, presumably all “pragmatic conservatives,” all able to plan long term on how to reshape the law, and so forth.
No. The Dems cannot start thinking yet about 2028. They need to face the disaster for them if they don’t make a very substantial mark by December of next year.
It is ironic—but imho AOC is the best the Democrats have.
What makes it most amusing is the big money Democrats hate her.
For some strange reason AOC makes me think of feed corn.
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