If anything is going to change, national races have to start building around the concept of movements. All this lipservice about cooperation and bipartisanship on the Left has to go out the window.
Stated plans. Mandates. Broad, sweeping wins making governance possible.
Stated plans. Mandates. Broad, sweeping wins making governance possible.
And, to do this, Democrats have to at least start moving beyond neoliberalism and reject these anchors who reinforce austerity and special interests.
This, of course, isn’t something this party is capable of doing as it’s constituted. Which makes all this practically moot.
This, of course, isn’t something this party is capable of doing as it’s constituted. Which makes all this practically moot.
The smart move here is for Biden to use this absolute catastrophe and say to the people, look at this mess, I need more people to achieve X, Y, and Z. The problem is putting together that agenda, being bold, and accepting the GOP will call it tyranny and socialism.
The problem is that, while holding power, Democrats almost always sprint to the right in midterms and basically apologize for their agenda. After all this, if that happens, it’s going to be an absolute disaster.
You have to use this as a jumping off point.
You have to use this as a jumping off point.
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