And why are my Dem reps not standing up to Trump?

[Anonymous]

"The Senate voted 67-32 this evening to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor. GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Ted Budd voted against confirming her nomination while 17 Democrats voted with the rest of the Republican conference to confirm Chavez-DeRemer."

Do they not realize we are not fighting on issue/policy alignment but on perception?

I am so frustrated with the D party.

I know Ezra Klein's column this week and his book has some buzz going: https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/abundance-ezra-klein-democrats-book-derek-thompson.html) and I appreciate him and listen to his podcast but what has stuck out to me recently is David Brooks's remarks (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/david-brooks-trump-power.html) that perhaps the Dem issue is they at they don't lean into their base which is not working class Americans, but actually highlight educated and intellectual Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The Senate voted 67-32 this evening to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor. GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Ted Budd voted against confirming her nomination while 17 Democrats voted with the rest of the Republican conference to confirm Chavez-DeRemer."

Do they not realize we are not fighting on issue/policy alignment but on perception?

I am so frustrated with the D party.

I know Ezra Klein's column this week and his book has some buzz going: https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/abundance-ezra-klein-democrats-book-derek-thompson.html) and I appreciate him and listen to his podcast but what has stuck out to me recently is David Brooks's remarks (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/david-brooks-trump-power.html) that perhaps the Dem issue is they at they don't lean into their base which is not working class Americans, but actually highlight educated and intellectual Americans.

the dem base IS the working class and the reason we lost to Trump is that we abandoned them in favor of tech bros.

[Anonymous]

This labor pick seems reasonable. It's good optics to vote yes here before the big no vote at the end of the week.

[Anonymous]

I think Democrats are stunned. They are scared. The J6 criminals are out on the streets.
This is not going to end well.
We are screwed without leadership, and there is no leadership in the Democratic Party.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't make sense to just blanket stonewall every candidate, even if they are reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Democrats are stunned. They are scared. The J6 criminals are out on the streets.
This is not going to end well.
We are screwed without leadership, and there is no leadership in the Democratic Party.

Yep. They get constant death threats. That’s why he pardoned them as his first order. It set the stage for all that follows. His personal militia.

[Anonymous]

Let's be real

The position of a member of congress is largely a desk role. These aren't usually revolutionaries.

So the average Congress person was just expecting a standard job with good health care. You know, maybe a book deal

Not a full blown assault on the Constitution.

I find it telling that those who don't fit the standard mold are the ones most willing to speak out. They have already learned to struggle against the wind.

[Anonymous]

Democrats are always expected to be the adults in the room, even when they were voted out of power. Dems can’t do much of anything right now. Republicans own this and should be the ones you are putting pressure on to do something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats are always expected to be the adults in the room, even when they were voted out of power. Dems can’t do much of anything right now. Republicans own this and should be the ones you are putting pressure on to do something.

The Republicans should absolutely face pressure and I know Democrats are not in power but there seems to be no organization to their actions. And they don't have to act like it’s business as usual.

Like allowing Al Green to be removed without several of them leaving too. Instead they played with their little paddles.

Or those that voted to censure him. WTF they are going to be picked off one by one this way. They are giving off "prey" vibes. It's not safe. They have to be united

[Anonymous]

Because they know Trump is doing what the majority of the American people want. I know you lefties here in your echo chamber can't see it but in the real world you guys are considered unhinged.

We won the electoral and popular vote. You didn't. Deal with it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they know Trump is doing what the majority of the American people want. I know you lefties here in your echo chamber can't see it but in the real world you guys are considered unhinged.

We won the electoral and popular vote. You didn't. Deal with it

Even regular people who voted Trump couldn't have anticipated Trump 2.0. They just wanted to get rich the old fashioned Republican way. Don't think they are happy. They are just quiet and that's fine because they didn't go all in on MAGA merch like you might have.

They can swing the other way and no one is the wiser.

Don't get too comfy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The Senate voted 67-32 this evening to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor. GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Ted Budd voted against confirming her nomination while 17 Democrats voted with the rest of the Republican conference to confirm Chavez-DeRemer."

Do they not realize we are not fighting on issue/policy alignment but on perception?

I am so frustrated with the D party.

I know Ezra Klein's column this week and his book has some buzz going: https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/abundance-ezra-klein-democrats-book-derek-thompson.html) and I appreciate him and listen to his podcast but what has stuck out to me recently is David Brooks's remarks (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/david-brooks-trump-power.html) that perhaps the Dem issue is they at they don't lean into their base which is not working class Americans, but actually highlight educated and intellectual Americans.

the dem base IS the working class and the reason we lost to Trump is that we abandoned them in favor of tech bros.

Uh, last time I checked, the tech bros were all taking over our government under the GOP banner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they know Trump is doing what the majority of the American people want. I know you lefties here in your echo chamber can't see it but in the real world you guys are considered unhinged.

We won the electoral and popular vote. You didn't. Deal with it

There isn't a single indpendent poll that supports this assertion, and please don't cite the right wing push polls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The Senate voted 67-32 this evening to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor. GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Ted Budd voted against confirming her nomination while 17 Democrats voted with the rest of the Republican conference to confirm Chavez-DeRemer."

Do they not realize we are not fighting on issue/policy alignment but on perception?

I am so frustrated with the D party.

I know Ezra Klein's column this week and his book has some buzz going: https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/abundance-ezra-klein-democrats-book-derek-thompson.html) and I appreciate him and listen to his podcast but what has stuck out to me recently is David Brooks's remarks (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/david-brooks-trump-power.html) that perhaps the Dem issue is they at they don't lean into their base which is not working class Americans, but actually highlight educated and intellectual Americans.

David Brooks can't do math if he thinks leaning into being a party for upper middle class liberal whites is a winning strategy.

[Anonymous]

The funniest thing about David Brooks is how he insists in every single thing he writes that he's "elite."