One would think, except that too many Dem electeds seem to have drawn exactly the wrong lessons from the election. Instead of getting louder and firmer about Democratic priorities and the threats posed to Americans’ wellbeing by the new regime, they’re saying “this is what voters seem to want so we can win points by playing ball.” Utter stupidity.
Exactly. No one wants Trump Lite. Is it really worth demoralizing the people who did what you ask, who spent their weekends knocking on doors, donated their hard earned money and stood for hours to attend rallies, to get no credit whatsoever from the GOP?
Dems KNEW all of this was coming. This is what I don't understand. Since Project 2025 came out, they knew this was coming. I don't understand how they weren't more prepared. Also, the Dems should be screaming about the pardons from every mountain top. Agree opposition is key. I agree with JVL, every minute, hour, day we can delay the tump agenda is a win.
Dan, please do not ignore the vocal opposition on TV and other media posed consistently by Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, Tim Kaine, and many others to these really repugnant nominees! As you noted, there is no point in verbally opposing every one of these nominees because it weakens our case against the four worst ones. There is a strategy at work here and while we are rightfully disgusted by most of these nominees as well as the temerity of virtually all Republicans, Democratic Senators are trying very hard to persuade four of their Republican colleagues to take a very big political leap of faith to do the right thing! It is a very tough job to be in the minority in a body of 100 so let’s not criticize our own who are fighting for the Nation with very tough odds against them!
“There is no point in verbally opposing every one of these nominees because it *weakens our case against the four worst ones*”
This is everything that is wrong with Democrats!!! What the hell kind of case do you think you can possibly make to convince these people?!?! Do you think fighting to convince Cowardly Republicans that Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel are a lot more dangerous than Marc Rubio or RFK Jr is some sort of victory?!?! Do you really think Republicans give a flying fork about unfit people in government who might make ill informed or dangerous decisions?!?! Are you forgetting that they all either voted or supported Donald Trump!?!?
Did the last 9 years teach you nothing?!?! I’m honestly confused about what kind of persuasive argument you think will make these people think better about confirming unfit or dangerous people to offices they aren’t qualified for.
Why are you all still obsessed about “making your case” or naively acting as if these immoral a$$holes might do the right thing. Republicans have shown us who they are time and time again. They don’t care about compromising. They don’t care about holding anyone on “their side” accountable. They don’t care about hurting the country (including their own constituents) if they can blame Dems for it. And they certainly don’t care about doing the right thing.
So I’m serious when I ask you why on God’s green earth are you and the rest of the Democrats (except the few Progressives who still have morals and aren’t afraid to fight) still convinced that there’s some magic message or strategy that will convince these people to do the right thing. Not only does it seem like a huge waste of time but it makes Dems look like naive idiots- a party of pathetic Charlie Browns who seem to believe Lucy when she “swears” she won’t move the football this time! 🤦🏽♀️
Ira, I think the issue is--and this is not directed at you personally--but, this line of thinking isn't working and hasn't for almost a decade now. Doing the right thing, as appalling as it is to say this, isn't working. The Rs aren't going to go home and say, "Gee those Dems sure put in a good faith effort today. I think I'll change my vote." And voters aren't patting well-meaning Dems on the back. Dystopian times call for dystopian measures.
I don’t think any elected Dem gives a hoot about the what the Rs think or say about them. I do think the Dems are asking themselves what voters think. Some of that thinking will push Dem elected officials to take a vote you don’t agree with, or that is wrong on the merits.
I have heard a couple of MAGA House members (Chip Roy was one of them) say they think they’ll lose the majority in 2028.
But what incentive does acting as a dystopian party give the electorate to vote Dem? None.
And I have to take issue with your point that doing the right thing hasn’t worked for a decade. Look at the legislative and regulatory accomplishments of the Biden administration.
Getting caught doing the right thing didn’t lose the election for the Dems. What lost the election were high prices that Biden couldn’t acknowledge much less try to address, a chaotic and mismanaged border, and a “Silent Cal” approach to communication in an age when communication is key.
Isn't the House at risk in 2026? Well, don't google it because it's just too freaking depressing. The Republicans will likely expand in the House due to gerrymandering.
And, yes, I love what Biden's administration did, but what good is it if Trump or Elon Musk can hit delete and it all goes away overnight?
I think suddenly it isn't about the electorate anymore. It's about Trump and Musk destroying it all from the inside with absolutely no recourse once they go ahead blantantly not obey the law or the judiciary. What recourse is left? Taking up arms? Moving to Canada? Except Canadians now hate all Americans (which is probably why Trump is doing the tariff b.s.--just to make leaving the U.S. as painful as staying in the U.S.).
Honestly, please someone tell me how this could end positively, because I'm having a hard time seeing it happening. Evil keeps winning, like it's some principle of physics.
I am with you on most of these points, Dan. I do think you missed the mark here though:
"It’s frustrating, but we cannot expect Democrats to have a battle plan to take on Trump right now."
I am guessing you mean this because, as you laid out, there are no appointed leaders for the party currently. But that's not entirely correct - Jeffries & Schumer are leaders of their chambers. They and their deputies can have a plan and message ready to go. Instead, to your point, Schumer is out here talking about bipartisanship and wanting to work together for solutions.
In a vacuum, I can sort of see the point of that. But there is no extra credit given for bipartisanship, especially if Dems take part in rancid votes! Sure this is all symbolic but the longer it takes the party to show they're up for re-imagining how they will work for the next 4 years, the longer it takes for people to want to trust them.
Sorry, but from Brooklyn, not so much. Asked about Eric Adams ditching MLK events to abscond to the Inauguration, he offered the weakest, nothing comment. If you can't take on Eric Adams, not looking strong. It was also a huge unforced error to let House Democrats give life to the Laken Riley Act when it was just a messaging bill the Republicans never thought would get support. With just GOP votes, it would have lost momentum in the Senate.
Jeffries seems to have the capacity to ask himself, in your example, what value is it politically to answer some reporter’s gotcha question about Eric Adams? The answer appears to be “None”.
Unless he’s competing for the Joe Lieberman Award for Righteous Indignation, there’s no value in attacking another Democrat about which parade he chose to march in.
Yeah awesome guy! Definitely not Nancy Pelosi’s token trained parrot *at all*. So glad he voted to continue violating American laws on arming countries who commit war crimes. Oh and I loved how he attended Trump’s inauguration - great example of strong Democratic leadership!
There are maybe 4 or 5 Democrats with an actual backbone and I’m sorry to say Jeffries isn’t one of them. And I say this as someone from Brooklyn who was one of his biggest fans not too long ago.
Agreed. How do we get Dems to act more like Republicans? I would love to see a complete and total refusal to work with them. Frankly even when working with them would be in our interest. I honestly wish everyone of them had taken a note from Michelle Obama (and Trump himself) and not shown up to the inauguration. We need a complete 180 from norms because nothing here is normal.
My only hesitation with this statement is that the GOP’s overall goal is a broken government and the overall goal for Democrats is a working government. It’s much easier to break things…
100%. But right now the government is broken and I think what the American people unfortunately are attracted to is people who are willing to be chaos. Who are willing to break things. The American people believe the government has been broken for decades and the DEMs are the ones who broke it. That’s the Republican narrative that they push very well. They’ve made the American people believe that everything is broken because of Dems while they’re the ones smashing everything. It’s quite remarkable really. Americans like the drama. Dems need to figure out how to be the drama and look like they’re breaking things while secretly fixing things. The absolute opposite of the Republicans. It’s definitely a much harder task.
I personally have never met a voter who intentionally voted for broken government.
Dems lost a winnable election because the president—otherwise a decent man and good president—ignored polls that for three years said 75% of the electorate did not want him to run, who seemed to ignore high prices, sewed chaos at the border, and did not communicate either enough or effectively.
Swing voters took a chance on Trump, not for the chaos, but because of high prices. That won’t work out well for anyone.
Instead of constructing crazy motivations for swing voters whom we will need to swing back in 2 and 4 years, we need to craft a positive message—and match it with words snd actions—for the election that is 93 weeks away.
No one in this country voted for broken government. From the election result analysis, a lot of swing voters moved to Trump because they wanted to fire Biden over high prices plus they thought he was too feeble. Not a surprise—that was reflected in two years of polling.
If Democrats still want to think of themselves as the responsible party, elected officials have to engage and choose what to support and what to oppose. Saying no to everything will never be seen as some illustration of “Trump bad”. It will just make us look petulant. Sure they’ll make mistakes; that is implied in making choices.
It's a fundamental difference, agreed. But there are tools in opposition Democrats can use. Do we love the filibuster? No. Are we stuck with it? Yes. Now it could be one of our best weapons - IF Schumer would move beyond begging bipartisanship and actually use one of the most powerful tools we'll have. (I get that won't work with reconciliation, but it could have been used for the Laken Riley Act.)
Also, at the very least we should have our own Big Lie, which isn’t a lie at all, that this election was stolen by being purchased by Elon Musk. Harris should be running around screaming like Trump did about his “Stolen” election. But we’ll never scream as loud about anything. We’re too dignified, but dignity doesn’t exist anymore.
Michelle Obama is not an elected official who took an oath to do just about the opposite of what you suggest. Each Representative has a constituency of about 400,000 people. So the plan is to abandon the needs of those people so Dems can act like petulant children?
Barack Obama is no longer an elected official. Either is Bill Clinton or Hillary. What I am saying is not showing up would send the message that Trump is not normal and this “Broligarchy” is not normal. Acting like “petulant children” is working for Republicans. 4 years of acting like petulant children won them back the government they will now destroy, likely beyond recognition or saving in my lifetime ;and I’m only 43). The Dems should add some of that behavior to attract the focus of the American people who seem to love chaos, drama and have the attention spans of 2 year olds thanks to social media and smart phones. What you call “acting like petulant children” is what I call not normalizing Trump. AOC didn’t go because she quote “I don’t celebrate rapists” THAT’S what I’m saying. We should not be normalizing or celebrating treasonous, rapist, felons. That man should have been imprisoned in July and not allowed to run. Could they have not insisted on following the rules then when a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government was running fur president? Too much rule following, but also not enough. If you’re not keeping felons out of office with “the rules”, why follow the rules when you watch him re enter.
Rules are there for order, if they no longer keep order, they need to be broken.
And PS the American people didn’t fire Biden for prices being too high, they fired him because they believe the lies they are fed 24/7 by Republicans that make Dems evil. And Dems are always plating defense instead of offense.
I am sure I won’t persuade you. I would argue that the GOP didn’t so much win the election as we blew it.
Exactly what rules bars a felon from becoming president? Not the Constitution and no statute I’m aware of.
I get it, we are all pissed about the election. But I hope Dem elected officials don’t look to AOC for political savvy. She’s a great communicator and very smart, but she has never demonstrated any understanding of what it takes you to be elected in a swing district or to manage when your constituents are a mixed bag politically.
She is from a district where my gym bag could win election if it declared as a democrat. The reason she lost to Connelly on Oversight was she was still recruiting candidates to run against incumbent Dems. She’s actually promised to quit doing this.
The caucus can’t do much unless it’s in the majority, and it won’t get there instead trying to “purify” its membership.
It's not low on the list it's the crux of Democrats problems. They. Stand. For. Nothing. They support the status quo even as it has moved further and further right. My entire 60 years has been a slow and methodical unwinding of what ACTUALLY made America at least seem like it was on a path to some functional society. But no. At each fork in the road we double down on patriarchal white cruelty and economic slavery. We've set the stage for calamity. And the D's have shambled along being R light, afraid of their shadows and slavishly supporting a system that marginalizes more and more of us in the wage slave economy. When inequality rises our buried hatred's and prejudices are ripe for harvesting. Herr Drumpf is very good at sowing and harvesting the hatred.
So you were born in the 2960s and that time has been an unwinding of…
You have got to be kidding me. During that time, the US has enacted the civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, major legislation at the state and local level to establish women’s rights to employment, credit, and education. In 1960, 30 women in congress. In 2025, 151. The Americans with Disabilities Act, the ACA, the Lily Ledbetter Act.
The wage slave economy? Are we back in the 1930s? Unions are resurgent and winning victories pretty broadly.
Well said. This is a big problem IMO. Dems rarely speak clearly and definitively about the tons of progress made on behalf of the working class, racial justice, environment, etc. Too much time spent bemoaning the [real] setbacks, and how everything isn't perfect and where it should be. So, the message that many people take away is: oh, things haven't gotten any better with Dems, and they're the same as R's, so why would I vote for them? This contributes to the cynicism that put Trump in office.
Contrast with R's and specifically Trump: I had the "world's greatest economy", "everything was great when I was president", "I don't enough credit for how well I managed COVID". Now, we don't want Dems to lie like he did, but the whole point is, they don't have to. They can run loudly on their records.
But you'd never think they did a damn thing listening to so many progressives and their leaders.
Cool. How'd the election turn out again? Right. Yes we've made progress - but not sufficient economic progress. Unions are on the rise - after being destroyed and the working class has been lost to the D's for a good long time. We've unwound the post WWII economic order and set the stage for the rampant aggregation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Our minimum wage is stagnant. Our immigration system is broken on purpose. Inclusion in a shitty system that puts profit over people isn't progress. Our capitalism is vulgar and inhuman because we've spent those years removing the regulation that prevented the Elon Masks of the world. Laundry lists of accomplishments don't mean a thing if the people don't FEEL it...you wanna grip? Look at the Court and tell me the futures gonna work out just fine...everything you mention is on the chopping block...yes, by all means, get a grip.
Republicans have only ever cared about the status quo. They think doing the right thing is whatever will help them win, keep, or expand their power/wealth.
Democrats used to care standing up to powerful corporations and entities and helping the marginalized and powerless. Now they only seem to care about norms and conventions and “not rocking the boat”.
Neither party seems to think doing the right thing has anything to do with *morality* especially if that involves doing or saying something risky, unpopular, controversial or unorthodox.
Same question for why dems voted to pass the awful Laken Riley Act? What are the political calculations these folks are making when they vote for something or someone that is so directly in violation of their values?
The best analysis I've heard is that weak leadership from Hakeem Jeffries allowed this to catch fire. It was a GOP messaging bill that only gained momentum in the Senate because so many Democrats in the House voted for it. Perfect example of why whipping the vote and working to unify the caucus is imperative.
Yes. That is much worse. They could have blocked it because of the filibuster (60 votes). That is not the case for voting for nominees, where their vote literally makes no difference to the outcome.
I’m guessing the same reason Kamala Harris stood up at a Town Hall and bragged about how the wall that Obama and the Democrats built was actually much better than Trumps and why she kept saying that she would sign the Republican anti-immigration bill as soon as it came to her desk.
Dems don’t talk to voters. They try and figure out how voters feel about things by reading reports from companies that do focus groups and “messaging surveys”. Those companies told them that voters really cared about immigration (even though when you start asking more questions, it’s pretty clear that most voters have no freaking clue how immigration actually works!)
Anyway, Democratic leaders also had the bright idea that Republicans were smart to listen to voters when they told them what they thought was in their best interests and repeating it to them instead of understanding that the *primary job of a political leader* is to help voters understand what is in their best interests. This is why Dems are, as Dan points out, “leaderless”. Like Republicans, they no longer stand for anything and they have forgotten what leadership actually means.
I have served my country either in uniform or in the civil service (and both while in the reserves) for nearly 30 years. Knowing I will be fired soon, I am so mad at the Democratic party that I can’t see straight. I am done with the pearl-clutching Democratic gerontocracy that seems incapable of learning how to navigate our current reality. I now loathe that I broke my body for the military. I now loathe that I spent years letting the public call me expletives in emails and shout in my face at public meetings. I served with honor regardless of administration. And for what? For chronic pain and a diminished retirement - to be cast aside without a fight? Never again will I donate to a Democrat. I am done. That’s the end of my rant.
Thank you sincerely for your service, and I absolutely hope and am optimistic D's will fight on your behalf. They came through with the PACT act, and have been staunch supporters of veteran's rights and causes for more than a decade. As for donating: good for you. I'm done, too. Time for them to earn our money.
I awoke this morning feeling angry. (I try to wake up with at least a glimmer of hope for the day.)
None of what has happened this week has surprised or shocked me. But these democratic senators have shit the bed. I gave money to some of them. I wish I hadn’t. Especially Andy Kim. I’m beyond disappointed with him. Not only has he lost my confidence, but he’s destroyed my belief in anyone new who may come next.
The biggest WTF for me is: none of them needed to vote for any of these nominees. The Rs have the votes. So, as you said Dan, this is a political choice. And an absolutely mind boggling one at that. Not one person who voted for Dump is going to care (and likely not even know) who a Democrat voted to confirm. This has only served to piss off the people who elected or supported them.
Agree 100%. Oppose, oppose, oppose, call out the outrages and do absolutely nothing that normalizes the so-called President and his assumptions about government’s role and how it works. How can we get this message out? I’ve gotten a few crazy-making “I’ll work with T if it brings prices down” fundraising emails. No!!!! Opposition will create momentum and eventually room for developing a compelling alternative. But for now just oppose and call him out.
I listen to Pod Save America enough to know that you underestimate loyal Democratic voters. You think it doesn’t matter that the Democrats don’t have a leader now and people will forget around the next election. Sure those who don’t pay attention may not. But anyone paying attention, and there are lot of us, are furious at the Democrat leadership for being rudderless at such a crucial time. It feels like we worked hard to get Democrats elected and now that we need some sort of hope, they bail on us. People are still getting annoying texts to donate money. That makes people angry. Tell your friends in the PACs to stop texting us. Do you not understand how we feel like we have been played by the Democratic leadership? The Democratic Senator votes are appalling for Trump nominees. But more than that the inability for Democrat leadership to be a powerful voice in the wilderness is reprehensible. Without strong leaders, people are becoming paranoid and disillusioned.
WTF is the matter with these people?? Most of them, that is. Some of them get it, but they're mostly people of color plus Elizabeth Warren and one or two others (plus Bernie Sanders, who has to be glad he's not officially a Democrat). The ones the mainstream Dems have been calling "far left" for years now.
The country has been headed in this direction since the beginning of the Reagan administration. More than two decades and they're still asleep at the wheel? Or maybe "snoozing on their stock portfolios" would be more accurate.
Has the weather made everyone a doom merchant? From reading the comments, I see that Dem elected officials are stupid, spineless, republican-light, craven…
This is the same caucus that hung together with no margin for error to vote for all that legislation that Biden miraculously got passed. LBJ had majorities of 68 - 32 in the Senate and 295 - 142 in the House. Easy to pass bills. People in the last Congress voted for bills knowing they were risking their seats. But they hung in there. Gun safety. Gender protection.
They just lost majorities because the head of the party couldn’t communicate, craft a coherent message, or acknowledge and empatize over high prices. But for heaven’s sake we have 47 Senators and 215 Reps. Even the MAGA GOP thinks we’ll retake the House.
Thank you for giving voice to this perspective, Dan. It is soooooo frustrating to me. Why didn't they have the insight to advance AOC to be the minority leader in that committee? Why can't Schumer step down & let a more dynamic senator take his place?
There was a really interesting pod Lovett did with Hasan Piker where he admitted that most Dems are much more comfortable with anti-Trump Republicans than progressives.
FYI, young, college educated kids and working class Dems identify significantly more with progressive values than centrist ones. But Democratic elites prefer Clinton, Schumer, Pelosi and even Liz Cheney to folks like AOC, Bernie and Chris Murphy. They made an active choice to alienate the fastest growing segment of their base in an effort to keep the rich, white, geriatric, AIPAC funded liberals happy. So if you’re ever wondering why the Democratic Party seems to be a $hit show much of the time, maybe that’s part of the reason….just a thought.
Oh It’s not painful at all! It’s actually really engaging and enlightening on a bunch of levels.
I know it doesn’t always seem like it, but I genuinely love PSA and all the pod bros. I think they’re all really genuinely good-hearted people who love this country and are dedicated to doing whatever they can to make it a better place.
I may not always agree with all their views (I don’t think they all always 100% agree with each other even) and I definitely think they each have certain blind spots (but then we’re all guilty of that - me included!)
The important thing is that:
(1) they’re always (mostly) respectful to people they don’t agree with
(2) they’re always honest about the fact that they do have some pretty fundamental disagreements and
(3) they’re genuinely curious about different perspectives and are willing to listen to other people and let them discuss their opinions in detail.
I think at this point, Lovett was still reeling from the fact that not only did Trump win the election, but that he won overwhelmingly and that Republicans across the board did so much better than they were expected to. So I don’t know if he was able to really absorb and process everything that Piker is trying to convey here but you can tell that he’s really trying.
It feels as if all the pod bros, Lovett included, have become more disillusioned with Democrats in general since the election. I honestly wonder if Lovett went back and rewatched this, if he would maybe admit that Hassan was more right than he might have given him credit for at the time.
Why isn't the message pretty simple - if the idea is democrats lost working class voters, and it was inflation/cost of groceries/etc that is what made the difference in swing voters, why isn't the message of every democrat to this flurry of activity by Trump, "what has a single one of these done to even try to address costs?" That message has the benefit of being a) accurate and b) to show that his flurry of activity is not actually him doing anything. if he thinks executive orders are the way to do anything, you'd think he'd offer something to at least try to address costs. this doesn't seem that difficult. be opposed to individual horrific orders and acts, let the people and the groups who are educated/trained/experienced in the specific issues lead the way on specific fights. but for an overall message for democrats, it seems simple - he isnt doing a damn thing to help make your life any better.
What gets lost in the conventional wisdom about "working class voters" is that it's overwhelmingly about *white* working class voters. And yes, I know many of those Trump voters told pollsters and interviewers that it was about inflation, but I've got this hunch that, just as in 2016 and 2020, it's had a lot to do with racism and sexism. Not to forget either that most of the electorate seems to be mostly clueless about how either government or the economy works in real life.
I would sincerely like to know any facts you have that say that when “working class voters” are referenced, that it’s really white working class voters that people are speaking of. Where do you get your facts, or is this just another hunch.
In any case, pretty dead-end thought. What are we supposed to do if the electorate is too racist and sexist to vote in their own interests?
Right…the reason that so many Latino and African American voters voted for Trump was because he only appealed to “white people”. Doesn’t that seem like pretty backwards logic?
What is it going to take for the Dems to grasp the very obvious point that their entire job is to stand up against Trump, oppose his nominees and fight? Why is it so hard for them to get this and what can we regular people do here?
One way for Democrats to get louder and more united, to respond forcefully to the administration, and to make them own their unpopular actions, is to form a People's Cabinet, our best folks speaking out. Please sign this petition and repost! Over 1000 signatures in the last 36 hours.
More urgent than angsting over these votes is for Dems to find/create reliable platforms for ongoing commentary on the administration’s unpopular actions, grifting, and oligarch suck up. The MSM isn’t going to help us, we need to create them for ourselves. Raise the profiles of the new generation of Democratic leadership—don’t wait for primary season. Have some fun with it, we desperately need something positive to do.
Leader Jefferies needs to be calling a news conference every single day putting his people in front of the mics. He will then find out who the emerging voices of the party are.
They need to make sure 🍊💩stain and MAGAtOP take ownership of every single action he does, they do. Let the people know how the vote was, let the people know in straight, direct speak what this “edict”, this “law”, this “EO”, this “statement”, this “pardon” does.
Jefferies and company need to go down the list of J6 pardons telling what each was arrested for, what each was charged with, what sentence was pardon and/or commuted. The police associations that backed tRump need to be asked allowed what they think.
The Muslim, Hispanic, Latino communities and their leadership need to be told what they are up against, Black Americans must be told what is being rolled back on them. So many of them voted for this as well, or didn’t vote which is the same f’n thing.
Especially poor and middle class whites need to be told exactly what is going on and how all of this is affecting, will effect them!
The basics of field hands in the California groves, in the pasture lands of the Midwest, in the industrial communities where the rich industrialist hire only the illegal immigrants in the poultry farms, the meat processing, …
They need to know, they need to understand, they need to hear it.
Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, all of it!
Every single day Jefferies and his party need to hold this administration accountable.
Start at the top with tRump, then go down the list of advisers, appointees.
Speak aloud how the Biden administration was bringing back jobs that other countries import to us because when tarrifs come up or 🍊💩stain verbally threatens another country that imports to us we can point out - “we had the plan to restart this industry but it was cut by 🍊💩stain, Peter Principle Mike Johnson.
So frustrating watching Dem senators approving these assholes for positions that they have no knowledge of.
"It’s frustrating, but we cannot expect Democrats to have a battle plan to take on Trump right now."
Blanket opposition is a pretty simple strategy.
One would think, except that too many Dem electeds seem to have drawn exactly the wrong lessons from the election. Instead of getting louder and firmer about Democratic priorities and the threats posed to Americans’ wellbeing by the new regime, they’re saying “this is what voters seem to want so we can win points by playing ball.” Utter stupidity.
Exactly. No one wants Trump Lite. Is it really worth demoralizing the people who did what you ask, who spent their weekends knocking on doors, donated their hard earned money and stood for hours to attend rallies, to get no credit whatsoever from the GOP?
Dems KNEW all of this was coming. This is what I don't understand. Since Project 2025 came out, they knew this was coming. I don't understand how they weren't more prepared. Also, the Dems should be screaming about the pardons from every mountain top. Agree opposition is key. I agree with JVL, every minute, hour, day we can delay the tump agenda is a win.
Dan, please do not ignore the vocal opposition on TV and other media posed consistently by Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, Tim Kaine, and many others to these really repugnant nominees! As you noted, there is no point in verbally opposing every one of these nominees because it weakens our case against the four worst ones. There is a strategy at work here and while we are rightfully disgusted by most of these nominees as well as the temerity of virtually all Republicans, Democratic Senators are trying very hard to persuade four of their Republican colleagues to take a very big political leap of faith to do the right thing! It is a very tough job to be in the minority in a body of 100 so let’s not criticize our own who are fighting for the Nation with very tough odds against them!
“There is no point in verbally opposing every one of these nominees because it *weakens our case against the four worst ones*”
This is everything that is wrong with Democrats!!! What the hell kind of case do you think you can possibly make to convince these people?!?! Do you think fighting to convince Cowardly Republicans that Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel are a lot more dangerous than Marc Rubio or RFK Jr is some sort of victory?!?! Do you really think Republicans give a flying fork about unfit people in government who might make ill informed or dangerous decisions?!?! Are you forgetting that they all either voted or supported Donald Trump!?!?
Did the last 9 years teach you nothing?!?! I’m honestly confused about what kind of persuasive argument you think will make these people think better about confirming unfit or dangerous people to offices they aren’t qualified for.
Why are you all still obsessed about “making your case” or naively acting as if these immoral a$$holes might do the right thing. Republicans have shown us who they are time and time again. They don’t care about compromising. They don’t care about holding anyone on “their side” accountable. They don’t care about hurting the country (including their own constituents) if they can blame Dems for it. And they certainly don’t care about doing the right thing.
So I’m serious when I ask you why on God’s green earth are you and the rest of the Democrats (except the few Progressives who still have morals and aren’t afraid to fight) still convinced that there’s some magic message or strategy that will convince these people to do the right thing. Not only does it seem like a huge waste of time but it makes Dems look like naive idiots- a party of pathetic Charlie Browns who seem to believe Lucy when she “swears” she won’t move the football this time! 🤦🏽♀️
Ira, I think the issue is--and this is not directed at you personally--but, this line of thinking isn't working and hasn't for almost a decade now. Doing the right thing, as appalling as it is to say this, isn't working. The Rs aren't going to go home and say, "Gee those Dems sure put in a good faith effort today. I think I'll change my vote." And voters aren't patting well-meaning Dems on the back. Dystopian times call for dystopian measures.
I don’t think any elected Dem gives a hoot about the what the Rs think or say about them. I do think the Dems are asking themselves what voters think. Some of that thinking will push Dem elected officials to take a vote you don’t agree with, or that is wrong on the merits.
I have heard a couple of MAGA House members (Chip Roy was one of them) say they think they’ll lose the majority in 2028.
But what incentive does acting as a dystopian party give the electorate to vote Dem? None.
And I have to take issue with your point that doing the right thing hasn’t worked for a decade. Look at the legislative and regulatory accomplishments of the Biden administration.
Getting caught doing the right thing didn’t lose the election for the Dems. What lost the election were high prices that Biden couldn’t acknowledge much less try to address, a chaotic and mismanaged border, and a “Silent Cal” approach to communication in an age when communication is key.
Isn't the House at risk in 2026? Well, don't google it because it's just too freaking depressing. The Republicans will likely expand in the House due to gerrymandering.
And, yes, I love what Biden's administration did, but what good is it if Trump or Elon Musk can hit delete and it all goes away overnight?
I think suddenly it isn't about the electorate anymore. It's about Trump and Musk destroying it all from the inside with absolutely no recourse once they go ahead blantantly not obey the law or the judiciary. What recourse is left? Taking up arms? Moving to Canada? Except Canadians now hate all Americans (which is probably why Trump is doing the tariff b.s.--just to make leaving the U.S. as painful as staying in the U.S.).
Honestly, please someone tell me how this could end positively, because I'm having a hard time seeing it happening. Evil keeps winning, like it's some principle of physics.
It’s very hard for it to work with a minority of four but let’s see what happens w Kash, RFK, etc?
I am with you on most of these points, Dan. I do think you missed the mark here though:
"It’s frustrating, but we cannot expect Democrats to have a battle plan to take on Trump right now."
I am guessing you mean this because, as you laid out, there are no appointed leaders for the party currently. But that's not entirely correct - Jeffries & Schumer are leaders of their chambers. They and their deputies can have a plan and message ready to go. Instead, to your point, Schumer is out here talking about bipartisanship and wanting to work together for solutions.
In a vacuum, I can sort of see the point of that. But there is no extra credit given for bipartisanship, especially if Dems take part in rancid votes! Sure this is all symbolic but the longer it takes the party to show they're up for re-imagining how they will work for the next 4 years, the longer it takes for people to want to trust them.
Rep Jeffries is a phenomenal leader. He gives me hope.
Sorry, but from Brooklyn, not so much. Asked about Eric Adams ditching MLK events to abscond to the Inauguration, he offered the weakest, nothing comment. If you can't take on Eric Adams, not looking strong. It was also a huge unforced error to let House Democrats give life to the Laken Riley Act when it was just a messaging bill the Republicans never thought would get support. With just GOP votes, it would have lost momentum in the Senate.
Jeffries seems to have the capacity to ask himself, in your example, what value is it politically to answer some reporter’s gotcha question about Eric Adams? The answer appears to be “None”.
Unless he’s competing for the Joe Lieberman Award for Righteous Indignation, there’s no value in attacking another Democrat about which parade he chose to march in.
From the outside he looks like he has serious chops -- and Nancy Pelosi would never have anointed an amateur as her successor. So I've got hope too.
Yeah awesome guy! Definitely not Nancy Pelosi’s token trained parrot *at all*. So glad he voted to continue violating American laws on arming countries who commit war crimes. Oh and I loved how he attended Trump’s inauguration - great example of strong Democratic leadership!
There are maybe 4 or 5 Democrats with an actual backbone and I’m sorry to say Jeffries isn’t one of them. And I say this as someone from Brooklyn who was one of his biggest fans not too long ago.
Agreed. How do we get Dems to act more like Republicans? I would love to see a complete and total refusal to work with them. Frankly even when working with them would be in our interest. I honestly wish everyone of them had taken a note from Michelle Obama (and Trump himself) and not shown up to the inauguration. We need a complete 180 from norms because nothing here is normal.
My only hesitation with this statement is that the GOP’s overall goal is a broken government and the overall goal for Democrats is a working government. It’s much easier to break things…
100%. But right now the government is broken and I think what the American people unfortunately are attracted to is people who are willing to be chaos. Who are willing to break things. The American people believe the government has been broken for decades and the DEMs are the ones who broke it. That’s the Republican narrative that they push very well. They’ve made the American people believe that everything is broken because of Dems while they’re the ones smashing everything. It’s quite remarkable really. Americans like the drama. Dems need to figure out how to be the drama and look like they’re breaking things while secretly fixing things. The absolute opposite of the Republicans. It’s definitely a much harder task.
I personally have never met a voter who intentionally voted for broken government.
Dems lost a winnable election because the president—otherwise a decent man and good president—ignored polls that for three years said 75% of the electorate did not want him to run, who seemed to ignore high prices, sewed chaos at the border, and did not communicate either enough or effectively.
Swing voters took a chance on Trump, not for the chaos, but because of high prices. That won’t work out well for anyone.
Instead of constructing crazy motivations for swing voters whom we will need to swing back in 2 and 4 years, we need to craft a positive message—and match it with words snd actions—for the election that is 93 weeks away.
This.
First sensible comment in a while.
No one in this country voted for broken government. From the election result analysis, a lot of swing voters moved to Trump because they wanted to fire Biden over high prices plus they thought he was too feeble. Not a surprise—that was reflected in two years of polling.
If Democrats still want to think of themselves as the responsible party, elected officials have to engage and choose what to support and what to oppose. Saying no to everything will never be seen as some illustration of “Trump bad”. It will just make us look petulant. Sure they’ll make mistakes; that is implied in making choices.
It's a fundamental difference, agreed. But there are tools in opposition Democrats can use. Do we love the filibuster? No. Are we stuck with it? Yes. Now it could be one of our best weapons - IF Schumer would move beyond begging bipartisanship and actually use one of the most powerful tools we'll have. (I get that won't work with reconciliation, but it could have been used for the Laken Riley Act.)
You know the Republicans would have.
Also, at the very least we should have our own Big Lie, which isn’t a lie at all, that this election was stolen by being purchased by Elon Musk. Harris should be running around screaming like Trump did about his “Stolen” election. But we’ll never scream as loud about anything. We’re too dignified, but dignity doesn’t exist anymore.
Michelle Obama is not an elected official who took an oath to do just about the opposite of what you suggest. Each Representative has a constituency of about 400,000 people. So the plan is to abandon the needs of those people so Dems can act like petulant children?
Barack Obama is no longer an elected official. Either is Bill Clinton or Hillary. What I am saying is not showing up would send the message that Trump is not normal and this “Broligarchy” is not normal. Acting like “petulant children” is working for Republicans. 4 years of acting like petulant children won them back the government they will now destroy, likely beyond recognition or saving in my lifetime ;and I’m only 43). The Dems should add some of that behavior to attract the focus of the American people who seem to love chaos, drama and have the attention spans of 2 year olds thanks to social media and smart phones. What you call “acting like petulant children” is what I call not normalizing Trump. AOC didn’t go because she quote “I don’t celebrate rapists” THAT’S what I’m saying. We should not be normalizing or celebrating treasonous, rapist, felons. That man should have been imprisoned in July and not allowed to run. Could they have not insisted on following the rules then when a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government was running fur president? Too much rule following, but also not enough. If you’re not keeping felons out of office with “the rules”, why follow the rules when you watch him re enter.
Rules are there for order, if they no longer keep order, they need to be broken.
And PS the American people didn’t fire Biden for prices being too high, they fired him because they believe the lies they are fed 24/7 by Republicans that make Dems evil. And Dems are always plating defense instead of offense.
I am sure I won’t persuade you. I would argue that the GOP didn’t so much win the election as we blew it.
Exactly what rules bars a felon from becoming president? Not the Constitution and no statute I’m aware of.
I get it, we are all pissed about the election. But I hope Dem elected officials don’t look to AOC for political savvy. She’s a great communicator and very smart, but she has never demonstrated any understanding of what it takes you to be elected in a swing district or to manage when your constituents are a mixed bag politically.
She is from a district where my gym bag could win election if it declared as a democrat. The reason she lost to Connelly on Oversight was she was still recruiting candidates to run against incumbent Dems. She’s actually promised to quit doing this.
The caucus can’t do much unless it’s in the majority, and it won’t get there instead trying to “purify” its membership.
Yes!!!
It's not low on the list it's the crux of Democrats problems. They. Stand. For. Nothing. They support the status quo even as it has moved further and further right. My entire 60 years has been a slow and methodical unwinding of what ACTUALLY made America at least seem like it was on a path to some functional society. But no. At each fork in the road we double down on patriarchal white cruelty and economic slavery. We've set the stage for calamity. And the D's have shambled along being R light, afraid of their shadows and slavishly supporting a system that marginalizes more and more of us in the wage slave economy. When inequality rises our buried hatred's and prejudices are ripe for harvesting. Herr Drumpf is very good at sowing and harvesting the hatred.
So you were born in the 2960s and that time has been an unwinding of…
You have got to be kidding me. During that time, the US has enacted the civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, major legislation at the state and local level to establish women’s rights to employment, credit, and education. In 1960, 30 women in congress. In 2025, 151. The Americans with Disabilities Act, the ACA, the Lily Ledbetter Act.
The wage slave economy? Are we back in the 1930s? Unions are resurgent and winning victories pretty broadly.
That’s off the top of my head.
Get a grip.
Well said. This is a big problem IMO. Dems rarely speak clearly and definitively about the tons of progress made on behalf of the working class, racial justice, environment, etc. Too much time spent bemoaning the [real] setbacks, and how everything isn't perfect and where it should be. So, the message that many people take away is: oh, things haven't gotten any better with Dems, and they're the same as R's, so why would I vote for them? This contributes to the cynicism that put Trump in office.
Contrast with R's and specifically Trump: I had the "world's greatest economy", "everything was great when I was president", "I don't enough credit for how well I managed COVID". Now, we don't want Dems to lie like he did, but the whole point is, they don't have to. They can run loudly on their records.
But you'd never think they did a damn thing listening to so many progressives and their leaders.
Cool. How'd the election turn out again? Right. Yes we've made progress - but not sufficient economic progress. Unions are on the rise - after being destroyed and the working class has been lost to the D's for a good long time. We've unwound the post WWII economic order and set the stage for the rampant aggregation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. Our minimum wage is stagnant. Our immigration system is broken on purpose. Inclusion in a shitty system that puts profit over people isn't progress. Our capitalism is vulgar and inhuman because we've spent those years removing the regulation that prevented the Elon Masks of the world. Laundry lists of accomplishments don't mean a thing if the people don't FEEL it...you wanna grip? Look at the Court and tell me the futures gonna work out just fine...everything you mention is on the chopping block...yes, by all means, get a grip.
Absolutely-freaking-lutely!!!
Republicans have only ever cared about the status quo. They think doing the right thing is whatever will help them win, keep, or expand their power/wealth.
Democrats used to care standing up to powerful corporations and entities and helping the marginalized and powerless. Now they only seem to care about norms and conventions and “not rocking the boat”.
Neither party seems to think doing the right thing has anything to do with *morality* especially if that involves doing or saying something risky, unpopular, controversial or unorthodox.
“Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where's the streetwise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night, I toss and I turn
And I dream of what I need”
Same question for why dems voted to pass the awful Laken Riley Act? What are the political calculations these folks are making when they vote for something or someone that is so directly in violation of their values?
Agree. Didn’t understand why some Dems voted for it. They will get nothing for their vote.
The best analysis I've heard is that weak leadership from Hakeem Jeffries allowed this to catch fire. It was a GOP messaging bill that only gained momentum in the Senate because so many Democrats in the House voted for it. Perfect example of why whipping the vote and working to unify the caucus is imperative.
They're hoping some of the bigots will vote for them. If the Democratic party had values, we wouldn't be in this situation.
I personally wouldn’t belong to a party that had no values. I disagree strongly with your statement.
Yes. That is much worse. They could have blocked it because of the filibuster (60 votes). That is not the case for voting for nominees, where their vote literally makes no difference to the outcome.
I’m guessing the same reason Kamala Harris stood up at a Town Hall and bragged about how the wall that Obama and the Democrats built was actually much better than Trumps and why she kept saying that she would sign the Republican anti-immigration bill as soon as it came to her desk.
Dems don’t talk to voters. They try and figure out how voters feel about things by reading reports from companies that do focus groups and “messaging surveys”. Those companies told them that voters really cared about immigration (even though when you start asking more questions, it’s pretty clear that most voters have no freaking clue how immigration actually works!)
Anyway, Democratic leaders also had the bright idea that Republicans were smart to listen to voters when they told them what they thought was in their best interests and repeating it to them instead of understanding that the *primary job of a political leader* is to help voters understand what is in their best interests. This is why Dems are, as Dan points out, “leaderless”. Like Republicans, they no longer stand for anything and they have forgotten what leadership actually means.
I have served my country either in uniform or in the civil service (and both while in the reserves) for nearly 30 years. Knowing I will be fired soon, I am so mad at the Democratic party that I can’t see straight. I am done with the pearl-clutching Democratic gerontocracy that seems incapable of learning how to navigate our current reality. I now loathe that I broke my body for the military. I now loathe that I spent years letting the public call me expletives in emails and shout in my face at public meetings. I served with honor regardless of administration. And for what? For chronic pain and a diminished retirement - to be cast aside without a fight? Never again will I donate to a Democrat. I am done. That’s the end of my rant.
I appreciate you. ❤️
Thank you sincerely for your service, and I absolutely hope and am optimistic D's will fight on your behalf. They came through with the PACT act, and have been staunch supporters of veteran's rights and causes for more than a decade. As for donating: good for you. I'm done, too. Time for them to earn our money.
I awoke this morning feeling angry. (I try to wake up with at least a glimmer of hope for the day.)
None of what has happened this week has surprised or shocked me. But these democratic senators have shit the bed. I gave money to some of them. I wish I hadn’t. Especially Andy Kim. I’m beyond disappointed with him. Not only has he lost my confidence, but he’s destroyed my belief in anyone new who may come next.
The biggest WTF for me is: none of them needed to vote for any of these nominees. The Rs have the votes. So, as you said Dan, this is a political choice. And an absolutely mind boggling one at that. Not one person who voted for Dump is going to care (and likely not even know) who a Democrat voted to confirm. This has only served to piss off the people who elected or supported them.
Agree 100%. Oppose, oppose, oppose, call out the outrages and do absolutely nothing that normalizes the so-called President and his assumptions about government’s role and how it works. How can we get this message out? I’ve gotten a few crazy-making “I’ll work with T if it brings prices down” fundraising emails. No!!!! Opposition will create momentum and eventually room for developing a compelling alternative. But for now just oppose and call him out.
I listen to Pod Save America enough to know that you underestimate loyal Democratic voters. You think it doesn’t matter that the Democrats don’t have a leader now and people will forget around the next election. Sure those who don’t pay attention may not. But anyone paying attention, and there are lot of us, are furious at the Democrat leadership for being rudderless at such a crucial time. It feels like we worked hard to get Democrats elected and now that we need some sort of hope, they bail on us. People are still getting annoying texts to donate money. That makes people angry. Tell your friends in the PACs to stop texting us. Do you not understand how we feel like we have been played by the Democratic leadership? The Democratic Senator votes are appalling for Trump nominees. But more than that the inability for Democrat leadership to be a powerful voice in the wilderness is reprehensible. Without strong leaders, people are becoming paranoid and disillusioned.
WTF is the matter with these people?? Most of them, that is. Some of them get it, but they're mostly people of color plus Elizabeth Warren and one or two others (plus Bernie Sanders, who has to be glad he's not officially a Democrat). The ones the mainstream Dems have been calling "far left" for years now.
The country has been headed in this direction since the beginning of the Reagan administration. More than two decades and they're still asleep at the wheel? Or maybe "snoozing on their stock portfolios" would be more accurate.
Please. Warren offered DOGE suggestions for 30 cuts they could make.
Has the weather made everyone a doom merchant? From reading the comments, I see that Dem elected officials are stupid, spineless, republican-light, craven…
This is the same caucus that hung together with no margin for error to vote for all that legislation that Biden miraculously got passed. LBJ had majorities of 68 - 32 in the Senate and 295 - 142 in the House. Easy to pass bills. People in the last Congress voted for bills knowing they were risking their seats. But they hung in there. Gun safety. Gender protection.
They just lost majorities because the head of the party couldn’t communicate, craft a coherent message, or acknowledge and empatize over high prices. But for heaven’s sake we have 47 Senators and 215 Reps. Even the MAGA GOP thinks we’ll retake the House.
Get a grip.
Thank you for giving voice to this perspective, Dan. It is soooooo frustrating to me. Why didn't they have the insight to advance AOC to be the minority leader in that committee? Why can't Schumer step down & let a more dynamic senator take his place?
There was a really interesting pod Lovett did with Hasan Piker where he admitted that most Dems are much more comfortable with anti-Trump Republicans than progressives.
FYI, young, college educated kids and working class Dems identify significantly more with progressive values than centrist ones. But Democratic elites prefer Clinton, Schumer, Pelosi and even Liz Cheney to folks like AOC, Bernie and Chris Murphy. They made an active choice to alienate the fastest growing segment of their base in an effort to keep the rich, white, geriatric, AIPAC funded liberals happy. So if you’re ever wondering why the Democratic Party seems to be a $hit show much of the time, maybe that’s part of the reason….just a thought.
How did I miss that interview? I thought I see everything Lovett does. I'll take a look....thank you.
(though maybe it is too painful)
Oh It’s not painful at all! It’s actually really engaging and enlightening on a bunch of levels.
I know it doesn’t always seem like it, but I genuinely love PSA and all the pod bros. I think they’re all really genuinely good-hearted people who love this country and are dedicated to doing whatever they can to make it a better place.
I may not always agree with all their views (I don’t think they all always 100% agree with each other even) and I definitely think they each have certain blind spots (but then we’re all guilty of that - me included!)
The important thing is that:
(1) they’re always (mostly) respectful to people they don’t agree with
(2) they’re always honest about the fact that they do have some pretty fundamental disagreements and
(3) they’re genuinely curious about different perspectives and are willing to listen to other people and let them discuss their opinions in detail.
Anyway, here’s a link to the Lovett/Piker pod: https://youtu.be/lIv5oPIDmO8?si=kJTjt5Bp4bZWpWIA
I think at this point, Lovett was still reeling from the fact that not only did Trump win the election, but that he won overwhelmingly and that Republicans across the board did so much better than they were expected to. So I don’t know if he was able to really absorb and process everything that Piker is trying to convey here but you can tell that he’s really trying.
It feels as if all the pod bros, Lovett included, have become more disillusioned with Democrats in general since the election. I honestly wonder if Lovett went back and rewatched this, if he would maybe admit that Hassan was more right than he might have given him credit for at the time.
Why isn't the message pretty simple - if the idea is democrats lost working class voters, and it was inflation/cost of groceries/etc that is what made the difference in swing voters, why isn't the message of every democrat to this flurry of activity by Trump, "what has a single one of these done to even try to address costs?" That message has the benefit of being a) accurate and b) to show that his flurry of activity is not actually him doing anything. if he thinks executive orders are the way to do anything, you'd think he'd offer something to at least try to address costs. this doesn't seem that difficult. be opposed to individual horrific orders and acts, let the people and the groups who are educated/trained/experienced in the specific issues lead the way on specific fights. but for an overall message for democrats, it seems simple - he isnt doing a damn thing to help make your life any better.
What gets lost in the conventional wisdom about "working class voters" is that it's overwhelmingly about *white* working class voters. And yes, I know many of those Trump voters told pollsters and interviewers that it was about inflation, but I've got this hunch that, just as in 2016 and 2020, it's had a lot to do with racism and sexism. Not to forget either that most of the electorate seems to be mostly clueless about how either government or the economy works in real life.
I would sincerely like to know any facts you have that say that when “working class voters” are referenced, that it’s really white working class voters that people are speaking of. Where do you get your facts, or is this just another hunch.
In any case, pretty dead-end thought. What are we supposed to do if the electorate is too racist and sexist to vote in their own interests?
Right…the reason that so many Latino and African American voters voted for Trump was because he only appealed to “white people”. Doesn’t that seem like pretty backwards logic?
Turns out that in fact not every Democrat is going to vote against RFK Jr. In fact Senator Whitehouse is considering it! https://newrepublic.com/post/190669/sheldon-whitehouse-vote-rfk-jr-confirm
What is it going to take for the Dems to grasp the very obvious point that their entire job is to stand up against Trump, oppose his nominees and fight? Why is it so hard for them to get this and what can we regular people do here?
One way for Democrats to get louder and more united, to respond forcefully to the administration, and to make them own their unpopular actions, is to form a People's Cabinet, our best folks speaking out. Please sign this petition and repost! Over 1000 signatures in the last 36 hours.
www.change.org/shadowcabinet
(see https://snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cabinet)
Agree that this is worth trying.
More urgent than angsting over these votes is for Dems to find/create reliable platforms for ongoing commentary on the administration’s unpopular actions, grifting, and oligarch suck up. The MSM isn’t going to help us, we need to create them for ourselves. Raise the profiles of the new generation of Democratic leadership—don’t wait for primary season. Have some fun with it, we desperately need something positive to do.
I'm sure that it isn't thought of this way, but this is pretending we have a parliamentary system, and we do not.
That’s OK! We just need the party to be speaking out together as a party, unified and strong!
Dan, you say rant over - I say rant not enough.
Leader Jefferies needs to be calling a news conference every single day putting his people in front of the mics. He will then find out who the emerging voices of the party are.
They need to make sure 🍊💩stain and MAGAtOP take ownership of every single action he does, they do. Let the people know how the vote was, let the people know in straight, direct speak what this “edict”, this “law”, this “EO”, this “statement”, this “pardon” does.
Jefferies and company need to go down the list of J6 pardons telling what each was arrested for, what each was charged with, what sentence was pardon and/or commuted. The police associations that backed tRump need to be asked allowed what they think.
The Muslim, Hispanic, Latino communities and their leadership need to be told what they are up against, Black Americans must be told what is being rolled back on them. So many of them voted for this as well, or didn’t vote which is the same f’n thing.
Especially poor and middle class whites need to be told exactly what is going on and how all of this is affecting, will effect them!
The basics of field hands in the California groves, in the pasture lands of the Midwest, in the industrial communities where the rich industrialist hire only the illegal immigrants in the poultry farms, the meat processing, …
They need to know, they need to understand, they need to hear it.
Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, all of it!
Every single day Jefferies and his party need to hold this administration accountable.
Start at the top with tRump, then go down the list of advisers, appointees.
Speak aloud how the Biden administration was bringing back jobs that other countries import to us because when tarrifs come up or 🍊💩stain verbally threatens another country that imports to us we can point out - “we had the plan to restart this industry but it was cut by 🍊💩stain, Peter Principle Mike Johnson.
So frustrating watching Dem senators approving these assholes for positions that they have no knowledge of.
Frustrating!