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...
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This guy is SO STUPID.
He worked for the Rapist in Chief.
He attempts to equate the Clinton victory in 1992 with a game plan for taking back the WH in 2028.
He makes the Democrats out as 3d chess players for winning in 1992.
Clinton won in 1992 not because of a grand strategy.
He won because Daddy Bush won the 1988 election on a promise to not raise taxes.
He lost the 1992 race because the promise made became the promise broken.
That said, he still might have won if not for the Perot factor.
Slick Willie benefited from the fickle finger of fate more than any grand strategy.
It’s The NY Times that’s failing along with the main stream media
I want some of what they’re on next time I have surgery.
Gotta love New Yorks' equivalent of Pravda. This sentence never would be written until well after the election. Last year at this time, Joe was the second coming of Roosevelt and Lincoln combined and his policies were amazing.
Consider the source
the same people who still believe in Russia collusion
Dems are soft on crime and hard on pronouns. People hate that.
That’s some pro-level copium.
Apparently they believe if they keep screaming the lie louder they will magically turn fiction into fact
57% in recent polling support the ICE raids. So apparently even people who voted against him or did not vote, like what he is doing.
The New York Slimes is still publishing slime ... color me surprised.
“”Joe Biden’s Policy Mistakes””
What a load of #&*#
The Hussein/Biden/DemocRAT/DemoKKKrat Cabal made no policy ‘mistakes.’ it was all intentional.
Perhaps.
Big Democratic rebound? WTF?!
Exactly.
The Dems answer to helping the middle class is DEI vs. lowering taxes, getting rid of regulations, opening the environment. Its all opposite of their quest for total Communist control.
They can’t do it. Its impossible.
NYT GETTING CLOSER & CLOSER TO BEING AUCTIONED OFF FOR UNDER $10.
With AI anyone can now write a delusional opinion piece by a snot-nosed liberal.
Sosnik adviced The Haughty John F Kerry Who Served in Vietnam on the 2004 campaign.
Does anyone here remember President Kerry?
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