I’ve believed for quite some time now that the choice between talking about kitchen table issues and Trump’s endless scandals is a false one. Democrats have hundreds of Congressional reps and a 24 hour news cycle. They should each be picking an issue that they feel strongly about and hammer it.
The thing about the plane is. . . . . .you just don't let him have it? If there's a Democratic president in 2029 and administration, you just say that he can't have it. He has no right to it, especially after the gov't will spend over a billion dollars getting it ready to be Air Force 1. Maybe 20 years down the line, when the aircraft has reached the end of its service life, it can be delivered to whatever golf course he wants it displayed at. But until then, it's property of the Department of Defense.
Heck, completely disassemble it, and send the re-usable parts away to be used as spares for other planes. After all, how would you trust that it isn't bugged? You're going to have to take the thing apart anyways. (Not just by the Qataris -- also by Trump's own crew of domestic saboteurs, on the way out of office.)
There's a quality of interaction between the parties that reminds me of the way men of different classes relate to either other. It's a relationship that is bounded by dis-ease and awkwardness. Dems still haven't grokked that they're not dealing with their peers anymore. They're dealing with Mark Wayne Mullins and the downmarket brigade whose hunger for power trumps the comity of former years.
Maybe Democrats have lost the skill of political confrontation because they have lost touch with real people. The author's examples of what he would like Democrats to say are exactly what real people would say if confroted by a jerk like Trump and the Republicans in real life.
I think if National Democrats will do that voters will respond. Take a peek at Texas Democrats and Gov. Pritzker's press conference last night which is on Pritzker's official website. I saw some real flashes of that kind of straight talk that resonates with voters when they see and know there is something rotten in Denmark.
(Honestly, if Democrats truly cannot figure out how to talk like a real person filled with righteous indignation, they should listen to town halls and the thousands of everyday Texans who excoriated Republicans for this redistricting.
I share your dream, and raise it. By one means or another, all of his appointments, executive and judicial, should be impeached and at least a few of them should be imprisoned. Knowing that probably won’t happen doesn’t prevent me from hoping it does.
I'm curious as to your feelings about the weekend's news about the Texas Dems leaving the state and Pritzker welcoming them. Jeffries sounded more pissed than I've seen him ever. Too early to tell if it's performative, but it seems this naked power grab gerrymandering seems to have really started something where at least the Governors are doing everything they can to fight back. Hope it lasts and it's contagious...
At least as to how to use the bully pulpit and rhetorically confront Republicans, I thought Pritzker did a masterful job. He also did his homework about in the weeds kinds of Texas politics. It may have sailed over everyone's head, but he got in a nice little dig about Ken Paxton. That kind of stuff is political gold when you have most Texans, including and perhaps especially, Republicans hating that guy.
If (haha) the Dems are too feckless to force a shutdown, they should AT LEAST hold the line on ICE funding. The BBBAct did not appropriate funds for FY26 and it’s an obvious place to make a fight.
It's great to see gutsy dems like Pritzker and Warren specifically named, and AOC and Bernie and Crockett earn praise. But I'd like to see the gutless ones name publicly, too. Even if they number in the hundreds--a Hall of Shame published every time a Dem votes for a Trump nominee or avoids a vote or evades a question. Lead, follow, or resign and get out of the way.
I see confrontation-ready Democrats coming very soon. See, e.g. Gov. Pritzger and Texas Democrats' press conference last night. The tone and message is starting to gel. Gene Wu, Texas House minority leader said the support and excitement from regular people has been through the roof.
Democratic leadership is bubbling up from the middle of the country.
I’ve believed for quite some time now that the choice between talking about kitchen table issues and Trump’s endless scandals is a false one. Democrats have hundreds of Congressional reps and a 24 hour news cycle. They should each be picking an issue that they feel strongly about and hammer it.
there was 'talk' about a shadow cabinet and bringing issues to the Sunday morning programs. Democrats have flubbed this.
The thing about the plane is. . . . . .you just don't let him have it? If there's a Democratic president in 2029 and administration, you just say that he can't have it. He has no right to it, especially after the gov't will spend over a billion dollars getting it ready to be Air Force 1. Maybe 20 years down the line, when the aircraft has reached the end of its service life, it can be delivered to whatever golf course he wants it displayed at. But until then, it's property of the Department of Defense.
Heck, completely disassemble it, and send the re-usable parts away to be used as spares for other planes. After all, how would you trust that it isn't bugged? You're going to have to take the thing apart anyways. (Not just by the Qataris -- also by Trump's own crew of domestic saboteurs, on the way out of office.)
There's a quality of interaction between the parties that reminds me of the way men of different classes relate to either other. It's a relationship that is bounded by dis-ease and awkwardness. Dems still haven't grokked that they're not dealing with their peers anymore. They're dealing with Mark Wayne Mullins and the downmarket brigade whose hunger for power trumps the comity of former years.
Maybe Democrats have lost the skill of political confrontation because they have lost touch with real people. The author's examples of what he would like Democrats to say are exactly what real people would say if confroted by a jerk like Trump and the Republicans in real life.
I think if National Democrats will do that voters will respond. Take a peek at Texas Democrats and Gov. Pritzker's press conference last night which is on Pritzker's official website. I saw some real flashes of that kind of straight talk that resonates with voters when they see and know there is something rotten in Denmark.
(Honestly, if Democrats truly cannot figure out how to talk like a real person filled with righteous indignation, they should listen to town halls and the thousands of everyday Texans who excoriated Republicans for this redistricting.
I share your dream, and raise it. By one means or another, all of his appointments, executive and judicial, should be impeached and at least a few of them should be imprisoned. Knowing that probably won’t happen doesn’t prevent me from hoping it does.
I'm curious as to your feelings about the weekend's news about the Texas Dems leaving the state and Pritzker welcoming them. Jeffries sounded more pissed than I've seen him ever. Too early to tell if it's performative, but it seems this naked power grab gerrymandering seems to have really started something where at least the Governors are doing everything they can to fight back. Hope it lasts and it's contagious...
At least as to how to use the bully pulpit and rhetorically confront Republicans, I thought Pritzker did a masterful job. He also did his homework about in the weeds kinds of Texas politics. It may have sailed over everyone's head, but he got in a nice little dig about Ken Paxton. That kind of stuff is political gold when you have most Texans, including and perhaps especially, Republicans hating that guy.
If (haha) the Dems are too feckless to force a shutdown, they should AT LEAST hold the line on ICE funding. The BBBAct did not appropriate funds for FY26 and it’s an obvious place to make a fight.
It's great to see gutsy dems like Pritzker and Warren specifically named, and AOC and Bernie and Crockett earn praise. But I'd like to see the gutless ones name publicly, too. Even if they number in the hundreds--a Hall of Shame published every time a Dem votes for a Trump nominee or avoids a vote or evades a question. Lead, follow, or resign and get out of the way.
I see confrontation-ready Democrats coming very soon. See, e.g. Gov. Pritzger and Texas Democrats' press conference last night. The tone and message is starting to gel. Gene Wu, Texas House minority leader said the support and excitement from regular people has been through the roof.
Democratic leadership is bubbling up from the middle of the country.