Posted on 02/12/2021 9:50:18 AM PST by Red Badger
House Republicans are already feeling confident of taking back the majority in 2022, and some key Democrats are focused on the warning signs.
Both centrist and liberal Democrats are concerned that if Speaker Nancy Pelosi drags the party too far left, it will be doomed to defeat.
“You know, 2022 is already looking like a pretty formidable challenge for reelection,” said California Rep. Scott Peters, the vice chairman for policy for the New Democrat Coalition.
In a discussion about party politics with Simon Rosenberg of the liberal think tank NDN, Peters echoed other top Democrats who said that the GOP had their number in the 2020 election when they should have gained, not lost, seats on President Biden’s coattails. Democrats have just 10 more seats than Republicans.
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— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) February 8, 2021 “We were defined by Republicans in ways that were pretty effective around a couple of issues,” he said, citing open borders, socialism, and defunding police.
His group is urging the party to deal with those issues, especially socialism, which was a hot topic in races in the West and South. Peters said Democrats “want to concentrate on this attack that we’re socialists, and I think it’s on us to show how markets, capitalism can be put to work for everybody.”
But, he added, at a minimum, Democrats can’t “get caught with our pants down again.”
In thoughtful comments, Peters also said that unity and healing after the Jan. 6 Capitol protests is still coming, and he pushed back on those who would blackball Trump's supporters in Congress.
"There's still talk about whether, effectively, there's a blacklist of the people who voted for the objections to the election. You know, it's not my preference. I guess I sort of think that, in terms of redemption, it's hard. Some of the people who actually got up there and incited the violence, I wasn't working with them anyway. But, you know, some of them, they represent over 100 million Americans, these people, and it's hard for me to see how we write them off. So, but I think that that has not healed," said Peters.
That stalls cooperation right now, he added. "We should acknowledge that, and it makes it really hard to build bridges when there's so much fire," said the lawmaker.
But, he still has hope for bipartisanship. "I think Democrats have to lead, particularly in the vacuum of Republican political theory that's existing right now. I think we also are in a place where we could take things across the aisle and maybe develop some support that will outlast political division," he concluded.
Just turn the dial on the machine, it will give you more victories by switching votes.
Unless there is a fix to massive voter fraud...none of this will change.
Rising gas prices are the fault of the ‘Rats and a buncha GOPeers.
Heavy emphasis on that "again".
Exactly!
If?
Don’t Democrats almost always have their pants down?
Translation: We have to really institutionalize The Steal.
They don’t fear a damn thing.
If they are within 5% on a poll, they will print/flip/fabricate whatever they need within a few days of “election day”. Now election month.
That’s a common posture for them and they have no shame. What’s the problem?
Look at a place like California. Over two decades, they have perfected electoral fraud and manipulation - motor-voter, automatic registration, purposely uncleaned voter rolls, government union activism, ballot-harvesting, and now, mass mail-in ballots.
The powers that be in California can squeeze out any election result they want.
“Just turn the dial on the machine, it will give you more victories by switching votes.”
Why bother to vote? Isn’t that exactly what this thinking is going to do, depress turnout? You’ve already conceded victory to them.
One of the mysteries of the 2020 elections, is how Republicans made such gains in House races, while Trump went down to defeat.
And against a very tough Senate map in 2020, The GOP only lost three seats net, when many pundits thought they could lose 7 or 8.
It hasn’t hurt them before.
Oh, they mean it in a figurative way.
there’s no need for them to worry. we’re too busy splitting the party, boycotting crucial elections, or using vote fraud as an excuse for cowardice and/or apathy.
we’re committing suicide. in a few years, we’ll be picking lice out of each other’s hair in the internment camp that commisar AOC has sent us to. it’s all going down, man.
As long as they have dominion and truck loads of ballots they are golden.
gee..for a Democrat I’ve always assumed that sort of situation was a prerequisite for holding electoral office
That is all you need to read today to understand our nation is in free fall.
I wonder if it will hurt when we hit the ground.
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