The Pelosi Ice Cream thing wasn’t, of course, about ice cream, and it wasn’t full blown Marie Antoinette but it captured the tonal aloofness of dem leadership & a key fact about their responses to the economy collapsing, which is Schumer and Pelosi never appear MAD about anything
Pelosi & Schumer’s tone is procedural updates, boring partisan jabs & patronizing ‘you dont understand how the game works’ head-patting. It’s devoid of any class politics or rage or urgency. 1/3rd of the economy evaporated overnight & it sounds like just another day at the office
after the crash in 2008 there was a vaguely populist demo that could have been won over by dems. Instead it morphed into cynicism or, a small percentage, was channeled into astroturf Tea Party. Again, we see some of this rage being channeled into "open up the economy" rhetoric.
What counter-rage are dems offering? What counter-narrative of help is being presented as an alternative to braving the plague and "going back to work"? There isn't any. No turn to social democracy, no pounding the table demanding $2000 a month. Nothing. It's a total moral void.
The Politics of Rage should be the sole domaine of our nominally progressive party, instead we get faux-class war from the right and from dems insipid process handwringing and a press conference every week or so w/ no sense of what their ideological aims are beyond beating Trump
