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It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.
But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg, was violating laws and the constitution,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “The American political process is slow-moving and so he was able to do things that were extraordinary.
“But this is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era. Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the Trump mantle and the so-called Maga movement, we may be talking in a year or so about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected with Trump.”
At a certain point how can’t you just blame voters and non voters?
Dems aren’t perfect but cmon.
Because looking to blame one single group is a fool’s mission. It conceals all of the shady shit that goes on.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then Harris’s pro genocide stance was legit.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then gerrymandering doesn’t exist.
If it’s the voters’ fault, then congressional insider trading doesn’t hurt anyone.
If it’s the voters’ fault then who cares that Obama passed the ACA instead of national healthcare?
If it’s the voters’ fault, then monopolies don’t exist. Neither do dirty cops and courts that disenfranchise minorities.
Look. I’m being lazy. I could have said non-voters instead. Or both voters and non-voters. Regardless, systemic problems demand systemic solutions. Your desire to blame individuals ignores that basic principle.
Of course the people still need to be responsible for taking action. But you don’t get to blame them for things they didn’t do, that they didn’t control.
… Or perhaps you’re suggesting more vigilante action? That’s one approach. Is that what you want? We could discuss it.
Are you going to hold your congress people accountable for their funding the genocide in November? And if so how will you weight that against impeaching trump and restoring government aid at home and abroad?
Are we going to burn the country down over Palestine again this November? Tune in to find out!
At what point can you not blame the democratic party for failing to inspire voters in the midst of an authoritarian blitz.
It can’t be their fault thought despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars, thousands of hours of research across hundreds of focus groups each year to find out what is popular among voters only to continually accidentally do the opposite and disenfranchise the very voters who should be voting for them.
Surely it can’t be the fact the democratic party continually accidentally gives up every political advantage and opportunity to advance by somehow acquiesce to Republicans because this time, “they’ve learned their lesson”.
At this point the democratic party is either controlled opposition, or so completely inept and ignorant that they probably shouldn’t be in power either.
eh, imo it’s obvious that dems arent incompetent…they’re largely controlled opposition, accomplices.
something something ignorance that is indistinguishable from malice should be treated no differently than malice
Blaming voters is not productive because changing voters requires changing the nature of an entire population. Expecting the entire population to suddenly act in a way different then they have acted in the last decade is insanity.
The Democratic party can and should adapt. They have mechanisms to adapt. They can take steps to adapt. They should change to be better. They can start by adapting a popular platform.
True but absolving voters and non voters means they never also feel any responsibility for this shit. And they most certainly are responsible.
It’s amazing how people can feel the effects, and not feel responsible. I should have swallowed my pride and voted in 2016. For Hillary. I did the same thing the Free Palestine kids are doing to Harris, and fuck do I regret not using my political power in 2016 to tell trump to fuck off back to reality TV. Just don’t know how saving Palestine can be your number one political objective, and not be horrified by the results of how Trump is handling it. No hindsight at all. No way Harris would have done anything different.
They thought voting was Kamala was ‘being made to toe the party line’, and as red blooded Americans, nobody fucking tells them what to do. It was never about keeping the orange buffoon out of power so he could continue fucking things up again. Utter foolishness. But they, saved Gaza, I think.
And now we’ve seen the results of the presidency: all these fools can do is cope about how Harris would have been just as bad. Like bro just take your L and admit you let your passion lead you to a poor decision and poor outcomes for the people you claim to care about. Instead of losing funding to Israel, they lost foreign aid for Palestine. Net negative effect of that vote would be enough for me to look in the mirror and end my shit: if I thought that was the most important issue of our time. I certainly would have too much shame to show up on the internet and pretend like I cared and am helping a cause.
If the DNC wanted Trump to lose they wouldn’t have thrown the election yet again by choosing the worst possible candidates to back. Look at what they did in NYC in a race that had far fewer consequences. They wanted to back the Republican ally Adams and billionaire failed politician Cuomo before the voters made it clear they wanted Mamdani.
Just because the Republican party is dogshit doesn’t mean the DNC is the good guy. We don’t live in a comic-book movie.