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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat we are seeing TODAY is a privilege and consequence of WINNING an election.
The pain and agony of what is happening today needs to be seared into our collective Democratic consciences...
Every step that has weakened our Party and strengthened the Trump Party is to blame.
Politics is salesmanship.
You can't take a Greek Food Truck and park it in South Central LA up against a Mexican Food Truck.
DNC architects not only failed to observe the dynamic of the Trump Party (I cant call it GOP) as they swerved into traditional Democratic territory like "blue collar workers" and civil rights defense...but they betrayed core Democratic values numerous times.
But they went a step further and ran the campaign as if the voting public was a board of tenured Harvard professors...
And then instead of allowing the traditional Primary process to pick a nominee for 24... put the VP in place without challengers.
There were options. We could have had an "express Primary" or decided to have an open Primary back in 2022 or 2023.
And then blamed the public because they were "too stupid"
Summary... to make good things happen, you gotta win elections. Lose elections and bad stuff happens.
Having "brilliant or joyful candidates" isn't enough. You gotta win.
I don't care if we have to run a Janitor from Harvard or the guy at the car wash, I want to win.
WIN in 2016 and Trump never became a political force, the SCOTUS leans Left and Hillary would have just finished her 2nd term last month.
JUST WIN.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Last night I read a post that nailed it in one sentence--
A crappy, horrendous, even evil plan beats no plan at all, especially when it is delivered with some gusto.
DUer: Bluetus
WarGamer
(18,249 posts)LauraInLA
(2,248 posts)WarGamer
(18,249 posts)mr715
(2,673 posts)Policy? It didn't win us anything. Hillary Clinton had policy coming out of her ears and she lost because of the vagaries of our ridiculous system.
Democrats always have a policy plan, but they obviously.... Obviously had no plan to win this election. You know how I know? Biden had to be humiliated before he was shamed into not running. Had he a plan for the "soul of the nation" he wouldn't have run for reelection because the vibes were quite clear.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)is not a plan, nor is $50K for a first time home buyer, and the like. Admittedly, Im ticked we lost and dont want to see another failure in midterms?
mr715
(2,673 posts)I agree with you.
This is also why the debate mattered so much.
senseandsensibility
(24,238 posts)Missed the privilege part. The media made sure he never had it. I know that's not the whole story, but let's be real here. It's not an even playing field.
mr715
(2,673 posts)I struggle to see how the Biden administration will be seen as anything but a Trump interregnum.
The significance of his win in 2020 is eclipsed by how far it drove Trump to his very worst impulses.
And then they sit on stage together.