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WASHINGTONAdmitting she had worries about the rise of left-leaning activist groups within her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concerns Thursday that outspoken progressives could do permanent damage to Democrats reputation as ineffectual cowards.
They mean well, but if they continue to aggressively push their agenda like this, they run the risk of fundamentally altering the publics perception of Democrats as bumbling, feckless chumps, said Pelosi, adding that this brash brand of politics could be easily manipulated by Republicans to paint the party as something other than a bunch of sniveling wimps who are too weak-willed and complacent to stand up for anything with even remote political risk.
I understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.
Pelosi also noted that her concerns shouldnt be overstated, as she knew it would take more than a few activists for voters to associate the Democratic party with the vaguest inkling of courage.
https://politics.theonion.com/pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-c-1836707083
Autumn
(45,107 posts)brutus smith
(685 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Some people dont understand sarcasm, they need to get a grip.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)Response to Skittles (Reply #7)
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Skittles
(153,169 posts)don't even get me started on them
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Just wow.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I mean, seriously, LOLOLOL
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)The headline had me thinking, "WTF? Who attacks like that here?"
Didn't take but a second -- relax, breathe, laugh!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Americans turned out in huge numbers in 2018, obviously dissatisfied with the direction the country was moving in under Republican hegemony. Under ordinary circumstances, Democrats should have expected to pick up a few seats in the House, but lose a half dozen seats in the Senate. Instead, voters handed Democrats a majority in the House, and kept their losses to a mere two seats in the Senate.
I wonder why that mandate didn't instill a spirit of more boldness in the Democratic Caucus? I can't believe the old hands in the caucus really enjoyed the treatment they received from Republicans while they were in the minority. Why aren't they proceeding with more confidence, and acting like they got millions more votes than the Republicans? Are they afraid that the support they rallied for their platform and programs will grow even more if they carry out the wishes of the American people? (This isn't just a Nancy Pelosi thing; there are Democrats across the board who treat their majority party status with flinching timidity.)
question everything
(47,486 posts)For them and, yes, for many here, the "boldness" is not tilting the party to the left, intimating many voters, moderates and independents. The genius of Pelosi was in concentrating the campaign on health care and not on Trump. Certainly not on all the freebies promised by leading candidates.
In Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida, the share of voters who said in exit polls that they considered themselves liberals were 27%, 27%, 25% and 25%, respectively. In each state, the share of voters who called themselves moderates was at least 10 percentage points higher. And in the three of those states where voters were asked about health care, the share who said Obamacare went too far was significantly highermore than 10 percentage pointsthan the share saying Obamacare didnt go far enough.
So here is a question about the 2020 presidential race: Why do we think we can win back such states with a more liberal agenda, one built in particular around going much further than Obamacare toward a Medicare-for-all, government-run health system?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Guaranteed that many of them don't really know what "liberal" means. They only have the foaming-at-the-mouth condemnation by RWNJs to go by. Subtract those percentages from 100 and you'll get the true number of liberals in this country, whether they know it or not.
See, e.g, https://prospect.org/article/most-americans-are-liberal-even-if-they-don't-know-it
No comment, but
demosincebirth
(12,540 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Response to Zorro (Original post)
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)As could be this headline.