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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The propagandist is a “Democrat Consultant” and campaign official in the past who now writes for the NYT. How cozy. Keeping it all in the family I see.
A guest essay by a lunatic that the NYT puts on their Opinion page.
Their hope is always failure or death…I’m done with this type.
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.
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Every word we say and every act we undertake should come with an attack component against those despicable, lying, Marxist-Democrats, their RINO sycophants like Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell, and their propaganda news organizations.
Commie wishcasting.
Let’s have a lot more of this “failing”.
birdcage material
Yeah, what was Clinton’s margin in the popular vote, 42%? He was lucky that Perot was running, otherwise he probably would have lost.
If this is “failing” I hope he fails harder.
Sounds like wishful projection.
I believe the media has received their talking points. They are going to return to publishing daily articles (as they did in his last term) on Trump’s “failing” administration and “chaos” in the White House. The best thing to do is ignore them and enjoy all the winning.
For instance, every DC Jan 6 prosecutor just got fired today. Winning!
WaPo is in tears!
“Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/
By Spencer S. Hsu
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dismissed roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the Washington, D.C., office over the past four years, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.
The employees were hired to permanent career positions after serving under special or short-term status as the office surged to manage nearly 1,600 prosecutions after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The prosecutors remained under probationary status, which allows the firings without recourse under Justice Department policy, the people said.
Notifications went out Friday to the people, who served in the office’s now-disbanded Capitol siege prosecution section, several people said. The cuts amount to about 8 percent of the office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on hiring and promotions, the openings will have impacts across the office’s civil, appellate, Superior Court and violent crime divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned.
The dismissals came after acting attorney general James R. McHenry III earlier this week fired members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team that prosecuted Trump. Separately, Martin has ordered an internal review of prosecutors’ handling of some Capitol riot prosecutions, focusing on one of the most heavily litigated counts in the investigation that President Donald Trump has called a “witch hunt” against him.
Martin called the charging of more than 250 riot defendants with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress a “great failure of our office.” The Supreme Court ruled last June that the charge was too broadly applied.
Martin, a conservative activist and lawyer who Trump appointed to office 11 days ago, has been a vehement critic of riot prosecutions. He was a “Stop the Steal” organizer involved in the planning and financing of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the White House Ellipse. He would go on to raise money and advocate for riot defendants before representing three of them.
Five people died during or immediately after the violence, which led to assaults against more than 140 officers and forced lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to evacuate Congress as they met to certify the results of the 2020 election.
One person familiar with the firing decision characterized it as being aimed against special hires converted to permanent positions after election day, and not all Jan. 6 prosecutors were affected. The person said the circumstances of the conversion will be reviewed.
The U.S. attorney’s office, which had about 350 prosecutors before Friday, bolstered its staff to handle riot cases. At first, many new prosecutors were temporarily detailed to D.C. from the Justice Department or other U.S. attorney offices. As those details ended and prosecutors returned to their home components, the office received permission to hire prosecutors for two- or three-year terms, with the potential to gain full-time status later.
Former U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves converted about 30 to full-time positions after Trump’s election victory, assigning prosecutors to meet staffing needs throughout the office, two people familiar with the matter said. The cuts will particularly affect the office’s shorthanded appellate and Superior Court divisions, slashing ranks of prosecutors who handle misdemeanor cases and having a domino affect as vacancies require backfilling, a former government official familiar with the office said.
“If you get rid of those people, there’s no one to replace them. That’s a lot of cases you’re not going to be able to bring in Superior Court,” said that person, who also was not authorized to speak for the office. “It’s hollowing out and creating a generational hole whose knock-on effects will be felt for months or years, depending on how long the hiring freeze lasts.”
Separately, Martin announced Friday that the office is requiring workers to return to the office five days a week starting Monday, Feb. 24.
I know it’s WaPo and we can’t expect anything better, but the bias and actual lies in their reporting is just amazing.
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Delusional.
Costco is going to pay 30 bucks an hour to their employees. That’s after paying them over 20 the last few years. For some reason, the company isn’t hurt by this and they keep building new stores. Something doesn’t add up. Either we have been wrong and prices aren’t going up due to pay or something else.
Yes! Quit your job. The democrats will give you universal income in october.
LOL!!! REBOUND??? How about HELLBOUND!
They wrote with staggering lies while their movement was in ascendancy.
Unfortunately, it no longer is, as of a few weeks ago.
Its descent will accelerate now. It will be phenomenal how disreputable their Communism will become. How ludicrous their propaganda will sound.
Our side must redouble its efforts to remove them from any position of authority or power.
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