Sadly the majority won't last. Democrats still lack an identity and an objective. The number 1 issue for Americans is the economy which there is no easy fix for. DEI, virtue signalling, immigration is not going to solve anything and will lead to a flip in 2030.
Why such cynical analysis? Four years is a long time, and it's trivially easy to trend up (economically) from where America is right now.
You also seem to take as a given that DEI, virtue signalling, immigration will be as it was in 2020, but I doubt it. Parties are capable of growth. The Democratic mainstream seems like they're less extreme now.
>The Democratic mainstream seems like they're less extreme now.
The Democratic mainstream was never extreme - that has always been a right-wing propaganda point, but you are generally correct. They are, as a party, trying to distance themselves from "leftist" and "progressive" politics, disavow trans rights and "woke" and rebrand as the sensible center-right alternative to Trumpism.
And that's why they will - as they always do - somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We need an actual leftist party that actually defends the values they espouse, not a center-right party of neoliberal Quislings so desperate to impress the cool kids that they'll throw an election just to defend genocide.
What is renaming the Gulf of Mexico and ranting about testosterone in the military in between a weird obsession with bathrooms if not virtue signaling?
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 22.1 ms ] threadYou also seem to take as a given that DEI, virtue signalling, immigration will be as it was in 2020, but I doubt it. Parties are capable of growth. The Democratic mainstream seems like they're less extreme now.
The Democratic mainstream was never extreme - that has always been a right-wing propaganda point, but you are generally correct. They are, as a party, trying to distance themselves from "leftist" and "progressive" politics, disavow trans rights and "woke" and rebrand as the sensible center-right alternative to Trumpism.
And that's why they will - as they always do - somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We need an actual leftist party that actually defends the values they espouse, not a center-right party of neoliberal Quislings so desperate to impress the cool kids that they'll throw an election just to defend genocide.
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