Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams
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"Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump's fascism to arise and succeed," argued one progressive organizer. "They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today."

House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    24·
    13 hours ago

    I certainly don’t remember it. We gave them 58 over a decade ago and less than 50 ever since.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      12 hours ago

      We gave them a majority in 2020. Don’t pretend that the two independents that caucused with democrats don’t count. The independents didn’t vote with republicans. Democrats did.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 minutes ago

        1. Nope~ we gave them 48 Dem + 2 Ind, they only picked majority leader with VP tiebreaker.

        2. If Independents counted as Democrats then we would have singlepayer healthcare a decade ago. Face it, those Ind were as likely to fuck us all over on votes as they were to help us.

        Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance. Just look at the last presidential election: voters chose literally Hitler over the Dems.