As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, it’s often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administration—and other Democratic leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution and respect for parliamentary safeguards and procedures to hobble ambition, frustrating voters and making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance as our civic cure-all.
This reading has now picked up the endorsement of a surprising group: A large bloc of former high-level members of the Biden administration.
The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesday—with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agencies—that seeks to diagnose the administration’s governing mistakes and failures. The report, provided in advance to The New Republic, may be the most ambitious effort involving Biden officials to determine what went wrong and why.
In the report, Biden officials extensively identify big failings in governing and in the execution of the politics around big decisions—but with an eye toward creating the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda. The result is a kind of proto-blueprint for Democratic governance to show that it can work the next time the party has power.
“We must reckon honestly with how we got here and why the American public has been so frustrated with these institutions for so long,” Roosevelt Institute president Elizabeth Wilkins writes in the report’s introduction. “The rising authoritarianism we see today shows us the stakes.”
It just means we have another couple of decades of suffering to do before people catch on and decide to organize, but hey, that’s cool. 🤷
Some kind of system that treats people fairly and equally with guaranteed rights? One where everyone gets a say in how things are done? Maybe could call it: Deem-ewe-cra-teak Rep-oob-lick, rolls off the tongue.
Tankies claim to take us in the same direction we all want to go, but then their actions like abstaining from elections or instigating violence leads us towards GOP victories.
right, right, because USA hasn’t moved so far right, center doesn’t exist, and Democrats didn’t hand-wring and capitulate at every opportunity. Meanwhile, the EU is certainly a shining example of democracy…🧐😮💨🤮
Democratic party platform is healthcare for all, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich. People like you seem to never be able to elaborate how the USA is further right, but that never stops you from repeating the lie.
You want the USA to stop moving to the right? Elect more than 48 DNC senators for the first time in over ten years.
MF we’ve pointed it out repeatedly! Nixon was to the economic left of Clinton, Obama or Biden, I’ve lived here for six decades, but do go on at telling me I’m wrong!
Platforms don’t mean shit without codification and Dems conveniently excuse not doing any of it for 40 years, meanwhile GOP GET THINGS DONE. Not that they’re good things but they deliver what they promise. Dems wear kente cloths and vote for Rep agendas.
ETA moreover, Nixon was environmentally left of Democrats since then, too.
The solution was to roll your sleeves up and pull the country back left but you were apparently too busy jerking yourself off over being above it all. You register in closed primaries, stump for progressives and primary incumbent and establishment dems that aren’t progressive enough. You get grassroots support because these are wildly popular positions and always have been. But that’s a lot more work than just wanking off to “both sides bad”. Bit late for all that now though isn’t it Maeve?
For the record the guy you’re arguing with clearly doesn’t understand what the terms he’s using actually mean, but that doesn’t give you an excuse to spout literal Russian propaganda points.
I voted and supported my candidate who damn sure didn’t run on genocide and campaigning with Liz Cheney. That was the solution, not wanking off and voting to “move farther right just one more time bro, I promise this time it’s going to work!” 🤡🌎
The candidate, I will add, whom Democrats sued to keep off ballots in swing states.
There it is. Congratulations, your principles and/or lack of understanding of how our federal system operates is responsible for Trump. Own it. You are the American that failed the open book test. I hope you get first have experience of everything you voted for.
Edit: wait holy shit did you vote green party? Did you vote for the actually literally a Russian spoiler party and wanna talk about Democrats? That’s a choice alright.
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Eta: I’m not young enough to know it all, nor old enough to be entirely forgetful. I’m in between, where I know and remember how many candidates Dems sued to keep off the ballots, while doing genocide and other war crimes.
Nixon sold drugs to black communities, is recorded on tape ranting about jews, kept a war going for personal gain, etc.
He might have saved some trees and whales, but he wasn’t left of jack shit. Here’s him talking about the dangers of homosexuality:
Tell me you don’t know the difference between “economically left” and “socially left” without telling me you don’t know the difference.
Uh guyz, people are starving and homeless but it’s fine if we arrest the homeless with rainbow zip ties! 🤓
Left means progress. There is no distinction between economically and socially left in the context of progress, you either lead to a better future for everyone or you don’t.
Name one instance of a fuckin tankie instigating real world violence in the US. Like, I’m a proper leftist and despise tankies as their general worldview is as reductive and stupid as libertarians, but there are no tankies wielding any sort of left wing influence. Certainly nothing remotely affiliated with liberals or the Democratic party. There’s less tankies in America than trans people. They’re not the problem, they’re just annoying. The problem is half the country, which would probably self-describe as liberal in context, couldn’t tell the difference between Trump and Harris.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/37226752
Though I suppose you absolutely needed an example of “in the USA”, but they’re in this very thread saying that voting doesn’t work cuz boTh SIdEs and that we need a bloody revolution. There is also CPUSA who have a literal weapons stockpile.
So what real world violence was instigated? We all know ml are nutcases but they have no impact or influence.
That’s like believing the Russian Troll Farms had no impact in 2016.
So no real world violence was actually instigated then. I asked for a specific example because that’s what you said. You failed to provide an example and deflected to Russian interference in our elections, which has been definitively proven but isn’t really relevant to the discussion at hand. Conflating tankies online with the actual nazis running the federal government is ignorant in no small part to the fact no tankie wields any real world influence, while the nazis in the white house do.
Tankies are instigating violence, whether effective or not, and proving it was or was not itself is a herculean task. Nothing I’ve said was wrong or a lie.
What violent incident was instigated by tankies? Name the specific violent action that made the news that was instigated by tankies in America? One specific example. Just one. We all know there’s dozens instigated by right wing fundamentalists, yet you equate the two so there must be an equal number of incidents by tankies, otherwise you’re just inventing an imaginary problem and you certainly wouldn’t do that, would you?
NoooOOooOo Harris wuz teh GeNoSiDeeeeeeZsz!!1!