Eve here. It’s easy to get whiplash trying to keep an eye on the many fallout fronts following Trump’s decisive victory on Tuesday. One of the evolving sights is the much-needed condemnation of the Democratic Party and the purge of too many people who have left their fate in the hands of the elite and have failed to even pretend to care about ordinary people. Indeed, as some members of the PMC told me before the election, they pushed back against mainstream Democrats’ hostility toward all Americans and their aggressive claims that they are superior and therefore solely qualified to govern.
If the party is to fully reform itself, it must expel the architects of its failure, starting with the DNC. Naturally, the culprit will try to shift the blame loudly. The latest public spectacle appears on Common Dreams. This shows the head of the DNC getting ugly in response to Sanders’ correct and long-standing criticism that the party has abandoned its roots.
In an interesting coincidence, Hill has just published a story indicating that many party operatives understand what a disaster the election was and that a major course correction is needed. But will large numbers of old soldiers close ranks to continue on their present bad ways? The Hills Trump’s victory has Democrats discussing how to start over. This suggests that at least some insiders have reached stage 12 bottoming out.
Democrats say a fresh start is needed after President-elect Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Harris. As a result, Trump swept swing states, narrowed Democratic margins in several blue states, and won key segments of the electorate.
“We have to burn the house down and start anew,” said one prominent Democratic strategist who worked on a recent presidential campaign.
“We were warned in 2016 that this wouldn’t work, and in 2020 we had another opportunity to realize that Trump wasn’t going away and was just growing his base. And we ignored it and pretended these were midterm elections.”
As Democrats perform an autopsy on Harris’s campaign and piece together what went wrong, they are quickly concluding that their party machinery and strategy are outdated or dysfunctional…
Democrats have lost their way in recent years, the strategist added. It appealed to “New York Times elites” while ignoring the working-class voters who traditionally supported the Democratic Party.
Contrast this view with the DNC Blatter below. This repeats the blatantly bogus defense that Biden was the best Labor president when most union members thought otherwise.
And yet, despite the breath of fresh air from the Hill account, I see the media, at least in my opinion, clinging too desperately to the story line that led to the Democrats’ defeat. Immigration) Trump is a fascist and his voters are misogynists.
By Julia Conley. Originally published here: a common dream
After U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders He expressed his views on why he became Vice President. Kamala Harris The elected candidate lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College system. donald trump In Tuesday’s election, top official Jamie Harrison once again signaled that the party would not listen to Sanders’ demands, repeating consistent warnings that Democrats must center economic justice.
Harrison, Democratic National Committee Chairman and former client lobbyist include bank of americaAnd BP called Sanders’ comments “real BS” and appeared to ignore the pro-worker policies adopted by the Biden-Harris administration, even though it implied the party had done enough to advance economic justice. all the evidence Working-class voters gravitated to Trump and the Republican Party.
“[President Joe] “Biden has been the most pro-labor president in my lifetime, saving union pensions, creating millions of good-paying jobs and even picketing,” Harrison said.
This is just BS… Biden has been the most pro-worker I’ve ever seen in my life, he was president of Union pensions that saved time, he created millions of good paying jobs, and he even marched on the picket line. Some of MVP’s plans would have radically changed our quality of life and closed down racial discrimination… https://t.co/6s4iR5Xtdq
— Jamie Harrison (@harrisonjaime) November 7, 2024
Biden has won praise from progressives and labor unions for establishing pro-worker principles. overtime pay and non-compete agreement, urge Amazon workers in Alabama formed a union, chaired the National Labor Relations Board, which investigated numerous unfair labor practices at the large company and sided with workers, and became the first U.S. president to stand on a picket line with striking workers. He became a character.
He also worked closely with Sanders on one of his signature bills. Build better behaviorThe bill sought to invest in provisions such as expanding the child tax credit, public education, and free community college, but the bill was defeated by right-wing U.S. senators. Joe Manchin (IW.Va.), then the Democratic Party, and then the Republican Party.
Sanders said in a statement Thursday: said “It’s not surprising that the Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, will find out that the working class has abandoned them.”
He asked whether the “well-paid consultants who dominate the Democratic Party” could “learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign.”
“Probably not,” he added.
Harris plans to include in her platform: End price gouging In the food industry, expand Child Tax Credit and Extension Medicare Coverage From home health care to dental and vision care, she had a warning for progressive advocates: proposeLower capital gains taxes for wealthy Americans.
like a common dreamreported Biden advisers on Thursday assumed that Harris this week had promoted billionaire businessman Mark Cuban to one of her top surrogates, muddying Trump’s initial message that he was a “representative of corporate interests.”
It is not yet known whether Harrison and other Democratic leaders will listen to the concerns of Biden’s insiders, but Biden expressed hostility when Sanders’ message came out.
“There’s a lot of work to do after the election, and this one is not a good one,” Harrison said.
Journalist Mitchell Northam pointed out that since the 2016 election, when the senator ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Democratic Party has studiously ignored and expressed hostility to Sanders’ calls for a focus on economic justice and a severance of ties with Wall Street.
Bernie knew where this was all heading in 2015/16. He had unity. He was addressing voters. And the Democrats pushed him out.
And as DNC chair, this outcome should also fall on Jaime Harrison’s shoulders. Just take the L. https://t.co/ZMv4hdnuZt
— Mitchell Northam (@primetimeMitch) November 7, 2024
Sanders’ message got unexpected traction from conservatives this week new york times Columnist David Brooks said in 2020: fired The veteran and perennially popular senator is ‘useless’ and ‘marginal’.
“I like it when Democratic candidates run to the center.” wrote Brooks. “But to be honest, Harris did a pretty effective job of it, but it wasn’t effective. Perhaps the Democratic Party should embrace Bernie Sanders-style chaos. This will make people like me uncomfortable.”
Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Will Bunch applauded Brooks’ “Amazing Moment of Self-Awareness.”
Waleed Shahid, a progressive Democratic strategist, expressed hope that Democratic leaders like Harrison would do the same.
“After suffering a big defeat in the universal election,” he said. said“Party leaders have stepped back to create opportunities for new perspectives and voices that have not yet had a chance to lead.”
