Posted on 03/31/2025 6:06:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX (AP) — The Democratic base is angry.
Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the “Make America Great Again” movement. Rank-and-file Democrats are mad at their own leaders and increasingly agitating to replace them.
Arizona Democrats pushed out their party chair, and Georgia Democrats are on their way to doing the same. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York postponed a book tour in the face of protests amid calls from progressives that he face a primary challenge.
The losing party after a presidential election often spends time in the wilderness, but the visceral anger among Democrats toward their party leaders is reaching a level reminiscent of the tea party movement that swept out Republican incumbents 15 years ago.
“They should absolutely be worried about holding onto power, because there’s a real energy right now against them,” Paco Fabián, deputy director of Our Revolution, a grassroots group allied with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, said of Democratic incumbents. “And as soon as somebody figures out how to harness it, they’re going to be in deep trouble.”
Facing a coordinated and long-planned Republican effort to remake government and fire tens of thousands of federal workers, Democrats have struggled with a unified response.
Frustration on the left with elected Democrats began early, when some Democratic senators backed Trump Cabinet nominees and supported legislation targeting illegal immigration.
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They lost because they were perceived as radical, and now the radical wing wants the old guard out. There’s not enough popcorn for the rest of us.
“The Democratic base is angry”
The Democratic base is always angry.
There, fixed it
We don't want "harness." We want "obliterated." We need the Neo Communist Party (AKA "democrat") to become an outlaw cult. And driven into obscurity.
Until then, we'll always have a rattlesnake at our bosom.
the old guard can’t control the monster they’ve created
>> We don’t want “harness.” We want “obliterated.”
I’ll accept “obliterated” if you’ll add “...and the ground beneath them salted”. :-)
And the anger is the Democrat leaders just aren’t liberal enough. They just haven’t gone far enough to the left.
Amazing
Are they so angry or just paid to be? Why the anger ay DOGE?
Exactly, they brought it on themselves.
they created the very monster that will eat them.
The democrat party IS Hamas.
The Democratic base is angry. Or at least the “wrath” branch of their party. Since the party renounced God three times at their convention, it has redefined itself based on the seven deadly sins. The sins are not inclusive, so there is considerable overlap.
pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. These are now the platforms of the Democrats.
Of COURSE the ground is “shaky” when you consider what it is made up of. It’s full of the mentally ill, the ignorant “karens” of both genders, the confused, the greedy, the lazy, the self-loathing and the dependent.
The politicians these people vote for are clueless, rapacious and willing to say anything because they have no values. “they look like ‘me’ “!
No sweeties- they ARE just like you.
I’m seeing a civil war starting up in the democrat party, as democrats at Reddit are screaming at the left wing nuts to leave the party now.
Good Lord! An accurate term from the AP. How'd that slip past the censors?
There is some upside to this anger. They are more motivated to turn out in off year elections this week, and the stock market drops will impact Trump and the Republicans. So all signs point to a potential for a pickup by the Dems in Florida.
“The Democratic base is angry. Or at least the “wrath” branch of their party.”
Is there another branch of the Democratic Party?
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