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Who is REALLY "the freak show party"?
One DNC member from Florida put it: “I don’t want to be the freak show party, like they have branded us. You know, when you’re a mom with three kids, and you live in middle America and you’re just not really into politics, and you see these ads that scare the bejesus out of you, you’re like, ‘I know Trump’s weird or whatever, but I would rather his weirdness that doesn’t affect my kids.’” …
The party is searching for answers in (Wisconsin) — and everywhere else. And some DNC members just hope the committee will pick a chair willing to dig into that work.
Said one New York DNC member, granted anonymity to assess the party’s ailments: “I would like to see a chair that can be critical of the party. And take a real in-depth look of where we’ve done things right and we’re we’ve failed and take action, even if it’s not popular. Not everything is puppies and rainbows.”
The party is searching for answers in (Wisconsin) — and everywhere else. And some DNC members just hope the committee will pick a chair willing to dig into that work.
Said one New York DNC member, granted anonymity to assess the party’s ailments: “I would like to see a chair that can be critical of the party. And take a real in-depth look of where we’ve done things right and we’re we’ve failed and take action, even if it’s not popular. Not everything is puppies and rainbows.”
Really don’t want to hear from neoliberal Washington insiders about how the solution is to abandon trans kids to hatemongering and move closer to corporate oligarchs like Jeff Bezos. If the DNC takes that route, it deserves to be consigned to the political wilderness for a generation.
My personal opinion, as a female who played sports in school, is that trans athletes should have a league of their own, and Dems can afford to lay off identity politics. But I also don’t think those issues were what decided this election.
Trump’s victory this time was a new phenomenon — a merging of billionaire spending and social/new media misinformation, plus voter cynicism and Main Street economic pain — and the old solutions aren’t going to cut it.
Besides, look at Trump’s cabinet. There’s your freak show right there.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/centrist-democrats-chair-dnc-00189933