Posted on 01/31/2025 12:56:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups. They are out of touch with America’s middle class. They are personified by a president who let inflation get the better of him and world events spin out of his control. As a result, the Democrats lost the White House as well as control of the Senate.
I’m talking about the 1980 election and its aftermath. But if politics back then has a familiar ring, it also has lessons for Democrats today, as they are in dire need of fresh vision and leadership. The election of a new party chair on Saturday is just the beginning of their reinvention process.
The Democratic Party is now in worse shape than at any time since 1980. Joe Biden’s policy mistakes — making inflation worse and making the border less secure — and the lack of trust in Democrats who circled the wagons around him in 2024 have done damage that the party does not yet seem to fully grasp. The party is paying the price for failing to develop and allow generational change in leadership; the Clintons and the Obama-Biden administrations have dominated for more than 30 years. At the same time, Democrats have too often been focused on whom they are against rather than what they are for. Especially for the past 10 years, the Democrats’ primary mission was defeating Donald Trump rather than articulating a coherent and appealing vision for the future.
“Coherent and appealing” are difficult goals, of course, when you are a federation of special interests — such as abortion rights, the environment, social justice, gun control, L.G.B.T.Q. rights and a pro-labor agenda — more than an inspiring and forward-looking political party.
In 2020, Democrats’ fears about Bernie Sanders pushed these groups to coalesce around...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Right. Written by some noob at the Times.
Is “Doug Sosnik” a pseudonym for Harry Sisson?
That's not a messaging problem. That's a problem of the elite Dims making sure that their average Joe Dims will always be on the outside looking in. So all messages that they care about the little guy fall on deaf ears. Except of course for the remaining Dim cult followers.
“a pro-labor agenda “
Hilarious
Importing tens of millions of aliens to undercut you and take your job
Really “pro-labor”...if by that you mean Foreign labor
The NYT’s “being exactly wrong” streak is still going strong.
Probably wrote this even before Trump came back to the White House.
The New York Times in the same acid tank as CNN and many other propaganda enterprises.
Censorship. That’s their best hope of keeping the public ignorant and voting for them.
LOL. Headline had me worried for a minute, Then I saw it way the Times. More great news.
Ny times 😆
This is going to be the main axis of attack. Once the hive is coordinated, it will be every play, every sitcom, every late show, every news broadcast, every paper, every “Star”, all day, every day.
Be prepared. I’m sure Cocaine Mitch would love to kick the show off by rejecting Tulsi, Patel, and RFK on the same day, to start the “loser” theme off with a bang.
Dougie sounds like he had a wet dream. Poor baby. He should have converted over to a female.
Double cross fingers, toes, everything, close eyes...Kansas, Kansas, Kansas...
I’m glad the NYT thinks Trump is failing. As long as they’re staying high on their own supply (of inane BS), and Trump keeps batting 1.000 as he has since day one, that puts us in position to lodge another boot up their backsides in 2026.
This is called whistling past the graveyard.
“The walls are closing in...”
They are all clowns. They exist in their own carnival of make believe.
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