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Dispirited and depressed, the Democratic Party doesn’t have a target audience, a message to send it, or a strategy to opposing Trumpism. Highlighting their dismal situation, new ideas were notably missing at a recent election for new DNC chair, where party insiders insisted that Biden and Harris ran great campaigns that failed to get their great message across to the voters and that nothing should fundamentally change. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA Republicans are manic and energized, running roughshod over institutional and constitutional norms, and capturing our national attention.
Can a major political party survive without a core constituency or firm ideological underpinning? Is waiting for Trump to overreach, provoke a backlash or die a feasible strategy? Will Democrats go the way of the Whigs?
On today’s “The TMI Show,” Manila Chan and Ted Rall discuss the future of the Democratic Party. Does it have one? If so, what does it look like? Joining is guest Scott Stantis, editorial cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune.
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“Use your words. Try to reason with the bully.”
The boomers and silents running the democratic party haven’t had a coherent message in decades. They’ve had corruption, backroom deals, and nepotism. The media? Anyone who has paid attention realizes that the media’s got the same basic problems.
Running on the “we’re not Trump” model lost the democrats two elections. The one where Biden’s handlers won? I’ve said it before: it was a rounding error that gave Biden the Electoral College. Less than 25,000 votes the other way and it woulda been Trump.
Now the dems have “no plans.” They’ve got plenty of plans — universal health care, guaranteed basic income, televised trials of Musk and all the rest, credit card APR caps, etc.
What the dems lack are balls. And that’s just the way the billionaire class that controls them likes it: a bunch of geldings.