Posted on 08/15/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate. But there’s another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump’s election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn’t really work at all. What the country needs isn’t just a new policy agenda; it might need the kind of constitutional revolution — from adding new states, to packing the Supreme Court — that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden.
That’s the kind of argument that my guest today, Osita Nwanevu, makes in his new book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.” Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
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We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.
That would require something I don’t think Ross Douthat is willing to engage in.
Osita Nwanevu. Great and other foreigner telling me how to tun my country.
They tried this in France. The best part of it was called The Terror. And the end result was a military dictatorship under Emperor Napoleon.
What have Nwanevu and his kind bring to the table?
Then let’s dust off the old “Union Is Dissolved!” posters, and they can do what they want in their own country.
Throw them in the same jails that the J6’s were thrown in.
Throw them in the same jails that the J6’s were thrown in.
Essentially secession and insurrection against the United States of America - EXCATLY what the Left and the Dems have done, are doing, and will keep doing.
Meanwhile, the Lying Left distracts by accusing the patriotic Right of exactly what the Lying left is doing.
Democrats simply can’t fathom they are losing elections and that democracy is in fact working. They lost. Power is slipping away and they can’t let that happen.
How about being American instead of communist?
And there was an uprising in the Vendee section of France against the atheists and communards running the French government. The people fought it as best they could; Americans in our hinterlands would be much better armed.
So the truth comes out, without cheating the commies can’t “win” and for them winning means bringing in MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of illegals to make them their useful idiots to get congressional seats and power
The New York Times has attempted REPEATEDLY to ruin this country.
They belong before a Tribunal.
They seem to be doing just fine without all that stuff. They’ve gotten their way on almost everything.
The Dummycrats are too stupid to moderate.
A lot of us here swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
35+ years later, I haven't been discharged from that oath, and there are more domestic enemies than foreign these days.
there's not enough poop in the soup, its bad, we need more poop in the soup because poop lives matter.
Abolish the constitution because it prevents poop in the soup!!
Ie, there's not enough communists in control if the united states government @@!!!!
Same here.
Why can’t the Left win without changing the rules?
Because increasingly voters are realizing they don’t *want* the stupid evil $#!+ the Left is trying to sell, and they’re refusing to buy it. So the Left’s solution is to *force* them to buy it, at gunpoint if need be, whether they want it or not.
That’s always their solution. It’s how they think. It’s what they do. I mean, consider Obamacare, as just one example.
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