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.
Your solution please? I’m not holding anyone without one that wants to chirp in very high regard.
At the moment, the party needs to do what it can. They need to gum up the works. They need to go on the fucking attack.
What they don’t need to do is continue with this mealy-mouthed bipartisan shit. They don’t need any more unanimous confirmations.
Now order me to shut up because that’s the closest thing any centrist has ever had to a solution.
Did I disagree with any of what you said anywhere? That’s working with the party. I’m looking for a plan from anybody saying to split the party. Those are good ideas that I agree with and have been pushing my state reps for.
Ok. We take over the Green Party. They’re a tiny party with even tinier primaries. Progressives could just saunter in and take it if they were so inclined. We would have the apparatus of an established party that we wouldn’t have to build from the ground up. We could extract concessions from Democrats by threatening to run. Or just run. If Democrats are so concerned about splitting the vote, they don’t have to field a candidate. It’s not like they’re interested in winning anyway.