Frustrated Democrats near their Tea Party moment: ‘This is not okay’
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>”Project 2025 was known about for years. So, why wasn’t anyone thinking, ‘Well just in case he wins, here’s our plan to stop it’?” Democratic strategist Keith Edwards asked. “Donald Trump is not a new idea, and [Democrats] certainly had a roadmap for what he wanted to do when in office. For some reason, it seems like our leadership has been surprised that he’s doing what he said he was going to do.”
Holy DUH.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
I’ve been there since that useless hag Wasserman Shultz did Bernie so filthy her reward was a Congressional seat.
I don’t think i can facepalm harder than I already have
It’s not that the Democratic leadership is surprised. The problem is they still believe they can go high when Trump goes low.
Democratic leaders still believe in the rule of law and Trump and his enablers do not. Democratic voters are starting to wonder if we haven’t come to a gun fight with a law book instead of a gun.
That said, I don’t believe violence is necessary. But as any student of the civil rights movement in the U.S. or the independence movement in India can tell you, non-violence does not mean inaction.
It’s time to march in the streets, to go on strike, to boycott, to hold vigils, to hold sit-ins, to form human blockades, and disobey unjust laws. It may even be time to go on hunger strikes.
Henry David Thoreau opposed the Mexican-American War because he believed it was an unjust war to expand slavery into the American West. His protest against the war led to his arrest and jail time when he refused to pay taxes. That in turn inspired his famous essay, “Civil Disobedience.”
When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Thoreau in the stone cell, he asked, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau replied, “Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?”
Unfortunately, as Thoreau saw it, a relative paid the tax for him and he was released after one night in jail. And Thoreau did not stop the Mexican War. But his essay “Civil Disobedience” influenced leaders of future protests such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., who had more success changing the world, albeit at the cost of their own lives.
We don’t need another Tea Party, we need a fucking Bastille Day
Can’t we just completely subvert MAGA at the local and state level by all becoming MAGA? Their platform is insane and nonsensical so what’s stopping everyone from just running on the MAGA platform and completely flooding the zone?
Can’t the resistance just destroy politics at all levels by making it completely insane? It’s not like you can tell the difference, and once you’re in you’re in and can just make a giant mess that makes no sense and makes everything grind to a halt.
Their voters aren’t super informed. This shouldn’t be that hard. We are all Spartacus.
Like the Tea Party movement my ass.
The Tea Party movement was a Kock, erm, Koch brother invention.
What’s going on in the democratic party is grass roots revulsion at their complete ineptitude.
I just want the US to become more like the EU at this point. Maybe my part of the country can be like a social democracy and other parts of the union can be like Hungary. We can team up for security, currency, trade, currency, and leave the rest to the states. Member states can leave too if they want which is nice. I really don’t want 20 years of dictatorship followed by a messy fall.
I remember the Tea Party Movement claimed to be for Constitutional government and getting rid of the deficit.
Yeah. Don’t laugh.
No taxation without representation. I’m not feeling very represented lately.
Until a clear majority of the population is angry enough for change, n o t h I n g will happen.
I want to form the Brass Knuckles Democratic Caucas.
Rep Crockett would be in charge and anyone else looking to join would have to shred MTG to her face also.
Democrats are acting like everyone still gets their news once a night from NBC, ABC, or CBS. Until they figure out a way to counter propaganda and disinformation they’re pissing into the wind.
Start by creating a Project 2029. Spell out exactly what you are gonna do & then do it. It appears to be an effective concept.
Democrats were always shitty at being an opposition party, usually handwringing about decorum instead of fighting for us. Time to stop taking the high road and dealing with the nazis they way they dealt with us when they were the opposition. It’s long since time they get their hands dirty, then using those same hands to raise the bar. I guess we’ll see.
Nothing is going to change if everyone is waiting for someone else to save us. Make connections. Build community. Organize. Educate. Talk to people in real life. We can discuss messaging online, but the real work has to be in person. Most people don’t want a broligarchy running the world. But they either aren’t aware of what is happening or feel helpless. Start organizing now. 30% may be all in MAGA, but that means 70% are not.
Please, I’d love to be proved wrong more than anything. But I’ll believe it when I see it. To this point I have seen all of maybe 4 people giving ANY resistance let alone approaching anything substantive. Meanwhile leadership continues to say how powerless they are, snuggle up to more billionaires, and push aside anyone actually trying to resist.
Democrats have failed. New leaders are needed because more of the same isn’t going to get anything done, if it’s even possible to correct the damage that’s been done.
Can you imagine four years of this isolationist agenda? America will not exist as a recognizable democracy in four years if Democrats don’t do something now.
Democrats need visible leadership, vocal leadership, and an authentic and believable message of hope because what’s happening right now is heartbreaking!
Democrats want to pretend serving in Government in like participating in debate club in 1970.
Republicans on the other hand are ready to tear down the entirety of government to get to Valhalla, today. Right now.
This enthusiasm gap is exactly why we are in this mess. We cannot be hamstrung by rules that the other party no longer follows. This is war and its time to act like it.
I’m all about blaming Dems, and yeah they need to improve their messaging. However, can anyone tell me how you go up against the media, social media, and podcasts? The Rs have a stranglehold on propaganda and legacy media refuse to hold their feet to the fire. I really don’t think any amount of messaging was going to change things, and until money is removed from politics they’ll still be beholden to corporate interests cause they need money to combat propaganda even if I genuinely think it’s a losing battle. People need to get burned and face consequences before they stop drinking the kool aid. That’s the only way I can think of beating the R propaganda.
It’s possible the Dems win the special elections and take over in the House, but then that’ll just slow down this current administration. If Dems prevent conservatives from leopards eating their faces, they’ll still lose the next election after they’ve listened to more propaganda. The only time Rs change their votes is when things directly affect them, and I think it’s got to get a lot worse before we have a chance to build something better.
The problem for the dems is not the wrong vision, its the absence of any coherent vision. Instead they are fractured into dozens of factions focusing on the special interests of individual groups. The grand vision of the GOP is terrifying and inhumane but they pull in the same direction and learned how to put an emotionally appealing wrapper around a turd of a platform. The Dems completely relinquished social media platforms, are barely visible when it comes to think tanks and have nothing to combat organizations like the federalist society. That treasured pluralism is getting completely crushed for the past 9 years. All the handwringing and moralizing will get you nothing in absence of an organized party
I don’t care if it’s a tea party, Satan worshipping, or a book read on the necronomicon moment. The Democrats need to get their shit together and fight back.
The tea party was about as grassroots as the Astrodome.
Party leaders keep bringing a casserole to a gunfight. We need a leadership/lobbyist/donor purge and for the Democrats to start acting like a real workers’ party.
Why did this take so long?
For that matter, how the hell did we let the great economic collapse of Reaganism spawn a rightwing movement for even more Reagan bullshit the first time?
It is entirely possible that democratic leadership lived (and still does) in a bubble of affluence so totally disconnected from their base that they actually didn’t see this coming. We need a younger, more progressive party leadership and we need it yesterday.
It’s time for an actual tea party movement. Not just ‘getting near’ or ‘on the horizon’. That’s all talk. We need action and unless we see it from our representatives, and soon, we will need to stand up.
No one is coming to save us. It’s time, for us the American people, to realize that we need to take responsibility for ourselves. It’s time for us, the American people, to use the political turmoil and chaos that is about to ensue and seize the means of production. They don’t care. We can’t win with the the democrats, or the republicans. We need to put the power back in the hands of the people, and that means taking back what the oligarchs have stolen from us. Our production and our hard work that results in their profits.
Let us not compare standing up for the constitution, to the TEA party. One is endeavoring to restore the rule of law. The other was in response to the first black president, and funded by resource extraction tycoons.
Most of the Democrats are a bunch are a bunch of feckless, spineless cowards that just want to maintain the status quo. They think being too progressive is too aggressive. They pander to things that just annoys people on both sides of the aisle. They are tone deaf and are not representative of what a progressive society should be.
Lmao! What are democrats going to do? Leadership has been going all in on passive-aggressive status quo management. Connelly beating out AOC shows that democratic leadership doesn’t have a fucking clue.
I’m a big lefty but both Biden AND Kamala said they “were ready” if the GOP tried anything. They swore over and over again. She lost the election which was probably stolen and she didn’t even ask for a recount let alone a forensic investigation into swing states.
They just rolled the fuck over.
It was way overdue last year…time to start getting in the streets, recruiting candidates, and moving out the old with the new!
Its time. The Democrats are *enraging* right now.
Democrats have a severe structural disadvantage in that their policy ideas aren’t directly profitable to the corporations and billionaires who are looking for a return on their “investments”.
Right-wingers have been investing in politicians at all levels, policy “think-tanks”, and propaganda media outlets for 50+ years and are now trying to grab all they can and make their rule permanent.
i think the Democrats who have been in office a long time are simply immune, they simply don’t struggle with affording rent and utilities and food, so they can afford to slowwalk. Even Kamala, how many houses does she have? Where was her demand of an investigation into the voter intimidation and totally henky statements of Musk and Trump who said “don’t worry, we are getting rid of voting” and “we already have the votes” MONTHS before the election? Its almost like she has no dog in the race. They know they will be fine and can hide in their bunkers from not only Trump but their own constituents. They are fat and happy and will eat next week and they do not have to suffer ANY of these consequences. NONE. AT. ALL. Thats why Hakeem Jeffries can be so calm. Ain’t shit gonna happen to him. NOTHING. If he cared that much he wouldn’t even have been a politician, he would have been some other kind of changemaker. As it is he preserves the status quo and is “annoyed” at all the phone calls and pressure while he slow walks. they all do, except for a handful. YOU SHOULD BE MAD. I don’t care if you have no actual leverage, you should be SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOPS in anger but instead you politely knock on doors and then roll over. Toothless and worthless.
Fuck the tea party, we need a goddamn Labor Party. A proper worker’s party. The Democrats are trash.
The published the playbook was in the news, and the DNC did fuck all. DNC apologists will argue the live long day how the DNC is just, defending a centrist party.
There was no playbook, there was no prep. They could have tanked the filibuster, there are number of things they COULD have done.
About fucking time, glad they’re finally having their St Paul on the road to Damascus moment, take back the discourse and stop being the GOP’s bitch…
The DNC found a way to lose to the worst performing president in 100 years. Let MAGA run its course and run this country into the ground. The only way MAGA dies for good is for them to prove to themselves their ideas are a failure.
The democrats can’t do anything to save us because the voters didn’t give them any power and all of the writing blaming this on them is also GOP propaganda.
I don’t think it is fair to compare people who want their party to actively fight back against America’s descent into lawless fascism with the Tea Party.
This is the time for the progressive party to stand up, if they had any other opening, now is the time!
Democrats are terrible fighters and most of them are weaklings and take lobby money handover fist. The progressive party is still somewhat newer to the establishment and knows how to fight and knows how to be dirty, I hope the Democrat Democratic Party splinters, I really do, because the Democrats are completely weak and lack the guts, it takes to actually lead, hail the progressive party
This is not a tea party moment, it’s a Boston tea party moment.
Time to make them very afraid of primaries.
Are these people just going to edge me for the next four years
Why the fuck is this being compared to the tea party?
It’s not as if Obama was dismantling all the things conservatives valued in society.
This is so much fucking worse than the tea party bigots even fought for.
What trite bullshit is this?
The Tea Party was astroturfed by the right-wing billionaires’ club.
We need a Big Tent moment between progressives, liberals and whatever’s left of the moderates or he will end up with a third term.
I encourage everyone critical of the Democratic party’s current leadership to make sure they vote in the primaries, and even run for office if possible. I feel far too many of us only come out on election day, not realizing the direction of the party was set 6-18 months prior. And it takes multiple elections, each one building on the previous ones. MAGAs figured out how to bring the GOP to heel in large part by going through primaries.
Dems need to get rid of the fossils in party leadership and oust anyone that is staunch in their effort to protect the status quo. It’s over.
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