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."

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1613522

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.

  • WatDabney
    25·
    15 hours ago

    I sort of barely feel sorry for them. Not really, since my freedom and quite possibly my life is on the line - if something isn’t done about Muskntrump’s coup d’etat relatively soon, the US is on the path to gulags and mass graves. But still… they haven’t been any sort of meaningful opposition party in at least 30 years now, so it’s sort of like demanding that a fat, lazy mall cop chase down a teenage shoplifter - it is technically their job, but they couldn’t hardly be more ridiculously ill-suited for actually carrying it out.

    • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      15 hours ago

      A big part of the problem is that the same cadre non-oppositional faces have been in charge of the dems for that 30 year period that you cite. They are aging out, and it’s time for them to fall and fertilize the ground for a new crop to rise.

      That said, going back further than 30 years into the 1980s, the leader of the Dem’s opposition to Reagan was Senator Byrd of WV, a “reformed” member of the KKK who only ever gave token opposition to Reagan and set the stage and norms for the Democrat’s current ineffectiveness.