Jonathan Capeheart puts his finger on the actual problem with Democrats: they do not understand our system. They blame a president as if a president can magically make things happen, instead of focusing on electing like-minded legislators in swing districts. This may prove to be as dangerous as the active delusions and conspiracy theories of Republicans. And Democratic turnout in off-year elections usually reflects this obliviousness.
Both sides in this country have almost completely lost touch with the fact that in our democracy, it is CONGRESS that holds most of the power, not the president. This complete lack of understanding will be a prelude to the end of democracy and that very congressional power, if it continues.
It also highlights why this year’s election is actually MORE important than the presidential election in 2024.
If the coming end of privacy rights like our right to decide family formation for ourselves, and reproductive choice as well, do not wake up Democrats to that reality and snap them out of their griping about Biden while the barbarians are at the gates, we may never recover from Trumpism and this implicit and increasing desire on both the right AND the left for a strongman.
This is a potential disaster in the making.
In the near term, the onus is on US to give Biden the U.S. House and U.S. Senate he needs in order to fulfill his pledges to our country.
This seems to be especially true with considering the Senate’s role in confirming judges.
Left out of here is that the base that turns out wants an AOC in every district and does not recognize that a big tent coalition produces the bigger majorities capable of passing the bulk of President Biden’s agenda.
I wonder in retrospect if it would’ve been better to lose the Georgia races since at least Biden would have the Republican Senate to run against.
Now he is awkwardly having to run against two obstructionist senators from his own party (only one of whom has a rational electoral calculus behind his obstruction) and the GOP. Talk about filibusters and reconciliation votes are too much for most voters to understand, so they just blame the party in power and push to elect Republicans who will make the bad status quo even worse.
Also it’s time for Biden to stop staying above the fray and go on offense. Name their hypocrisy on voting down baby formula, voting to abandon Ukraine, to arm and enable right wing extremists and whites supremacists, to cover up the Jan 6 terror attack, etc. Not to mention efforts to turn miscarriages into felonies.
Aside from a few vocal ones, I think most Republicans do in fact favor aiding Ukraine.
We constantly see pieces about why Biden was elected. Some say we elected him to push a bold progressive agenda. Others say we elected him just to calm things down and not be Trump. Truth is both are right as there are probably as many reasons for voting for him as there are voters.
There is plenty of space for different districts to nominate the Democrat that is right for them, some of whom will be AOC clones and some won’t. That’s what primaries are for and I believe moderates should vote in primaries, but that all Dems need to support the nominee whether leftist or centrist.
Absolutely. I’m donating to Fetterman and Ryan who are both well positioned for their respective states. If Lamb could not generate enthusiasm to win a primary, he would not have won a general, so Fetterman has clearly struck a chord and has a divided Republican Party to run against.
I think the stakes are too high to take a chance so I favor moderates, but where progressives can win primaries, they deserve our support too.