What happens to the Democratic Party now? (3 Viewers)

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    I’m sure much of us are having 2016 flashbacks this morning with a sick feeling to our stomachs..

    2 of the last 3 elections Democrats have lost to a far right demagogue

    Harris didn’t get close in many states to even Biden’s performance. We could very well lose the Presidency, Senate AND House depending on results the next few days…..

    What went wrong?
    What could’ve been done better?
    What can we change in the future to ensure voters are motivated like they were when Obama was elected?

    Democrats have no choice but to admit there’s a huge problem with some aspect of their platform— and to do a deep introspection of what’s going wrong..
     
    Putting this here and I agree 100%

    RobF said:
    Slightly off topic for the thread maybe, but I think the Democrats need to be very loudly and clearly saying that these agencies are essential, that they will need to be and shall be rebuilt, that it will be expensive, and that they'll do everything they can to ensure those profiting from their destruction pay for their rebuilding.

    And they need to repeat that message, non stop, every day. They need to establish a narrative; that this is destruction, which will need to be repaired, and those responsible will be paying for it.

    Otherwise, the competing narrative, that it's "efficiency" that saves "the taxpayer" money will win out, regardless of truth, and rebuilding will be framed as "inefficiency" and "the return of big government" that costs "the taxpayer".
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    This thread dropping to the bottom of the page seems fitting. Except for a few, they are all spineless right now.
     
    Neworleansfan said:
    Obstruct. Go out there and be louder.
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    That will accomplish nothing.
    Neworleansfan said:
    Tell us how you plan to win back the house and senate in 2026 and what are you going to do when you win them back. Have a plan.
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    That will be up to the voters and that will require voters to look outside themselves. They will have to set aside their personal agendas and focus on getting back to a sense of normalcy or this tug of war will continue. Remember this President was elected to office with more than half the voters voting for someone other than him.

    Some Democratic voters were so worried about shirt that was happening overseas and some fell victim to their failure to comprehend the root causes to inflation that they failed to vote for the Democratic nominee. You'd thought they learned their lesson in 2016, but yet, here we are.
     
    DJ1BigTymer said:
    That will accomplish nothing.

    That will be up to the voters and that will require voters to look outside themselves. They will have to set aside their personal agendas and focus on getting back to a sense of normalcy or this tug of war will continue. Remember this President was elected to office with more than half the voters voting for someone other than him.

    Some Democratic voters were so worried about shirt that was happening overseas and some fell victim to their failure to comprehend the root causes to inflation that they failed to vote for the Democratic nominee. You'd thought they learned their lesson in 2016, but yet, here we are.
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    Not more than 1/2. More like Less than 1/3. The rest don’t care to vote because they feel like neither parties have made their lives any better. Other couldn’t vote because they have to work. The D need to figure out house to reach those people. I would bet that most of those folks lives below or right at the edge of the middle classes. They are built-in D constituents.
     
    Neworleansfan said:
    Not more than 1/2. More like Less than 1/3. The rest don’t care to vote because they feel like neither parties have made their lives any better. Other couldn’t vote because they have to work. The D need to figure out house to reach those people. I would bet that most of those folks lives below or right at the edge of the middle classes. They are built-in D constituents.
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    I said half the voters! Trump received 49% of the votes cast, 51% voted for someone other than him.

    You are right about one thing though, voter turnout was only 63%, 3 points lower than the 2020 election.
     
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    FullMonte said:
    Sadly, one of the "best" options for the dems is to sit back and let the government continue to implode, and later this year (and early next year) begin pointing out how bad this "Trump is GOD" experiment has been for the country.
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    Agreed. This is going to take decades for the D's to clean up this Republican mess. They have a lot of practice doing so, but this time they are going to have a bigger problem than "clean-up in aisle 7", this is going to be a full rebuild of agencies that were designed to protect and service the people.
     
    Here's an article from the New York Times about how Denmark is maintaining a center left government during a time of anti-incumbent sentiment and more conservative governments everywhere (see Germany, US and likely Canada). The key difference the author hypothesizes is Denmark has maintained a stricter immigration policy than those other countries. @Dragon might be able to comment.

    www.nytimes.com

    How Denmark’s Social Democrats Are Succeeding With Stricter Immigration Policies

    Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?
    www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
     

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