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In reply to the discussion: No More F*cking Around. We elected you. Start acting like it (what I want to see today from Dems) [View all]betsuni
(29,221 posts)And of course the classic "establishment." Need new blood, thinking out of the box, fresh faces who will "fight."
The assumption that leadership isn't doing anything and if we just got the right leadership everyone in Congress would vote the right way and everything will be fine.
Pelosi gets it all the time, and it was a daily thing before Trump was impeached. She was personally preventing impeachment and if he was just impeached everything would be fine. As we know, it wasn't.
AOC last year in an Intercept article: "We need new leadership in the Democratic Party," said she thinks Pelosi and Schumer should be replaced because they've failed to make a succession plan. First of all, of course they have successors like Jeffries. Second, young people look up to AOC and hear her say that leadership needs to be replaced (they aren't good at their jobs) and that doesn't help encourage them to support the party.