I’m curious to see if Jasmine Crockett runs (and if she stops getting opposition from her own party):
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If you feel that you have to go on shows with bros; at least don’t Gavin Newsom it.
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Sen. Fetterman, if he chooses to run again, and primary voters put him as our nominee, of course, our party is going to be behind him.
We’ll see if Martin can get Democrats in positions of power to embrace that concept when it comes to Zohran Mamdani. I get the feeling that “big tent” will be missing a few tightrope walkers and jugglers after the midterms.
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The headline made me mad, but the full quote is okay, I think.
I say that because there’s no doubt, right, that this bill is not a gift to the American people, but it was a gift to the Democratic Party.
It allows us the opportunity to actually have conversations with many voters, frankly, a lot of them who voted for Donald Trump because they believed that he was going to help their lives … we’re six months into his administration, and most, if not all, of the stuff that he has done has actually hurt the very people that he said he was going to help.
The Fetterman comment, on the other hand, as @PsiPhiGrrrl pointed out, was begging for a followup question about supporting candidates like Mamdani with the same level of enthusiasm.
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To the grauniad, not Mindy.
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Here’s the report that inspired the article, that inspired the article in the Guarniad
And what immediately jumps out at me is that despite the differences between their “working class” population and everyone else (yeah, I’m still not giving up on an actual definition of class because having a class-based analysis really fucking matters as the last few decades of hapless ideological confusion on the triangulating, directionless, so-called left shows) is that despite these differences, an economically populist, broadly egalitarian approach is really popular and should win elections, even in the USA.
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I think part of my problem is that when lots of people (even those on the left) say “working class” they mean white men, not everyone else. The working class is the most diverse class in America. So, is that what they mean here? White men? Cause that’s a problem if they do. Where I live, the biggest share of the working class are POC, specifically Black Americans.
This has always been something of a problem with leftists analysis from white leftists. They (some at least) are pretty eager to ignore that being Black (or trans, or queer, or a woman, etc) compounds the problems faced by working class people. Yes, white working class men are getting a raw deal, too, but they are also less likely to get shot by the cops, face systemic sexual harassment in the work place, or be discriminated against because of their gender identity or who they partner up with. I do think we have to tackle these questions together, not just focus on class and then, well, MAYBE we’ll ensure these “special interests” problems… I am not a full citizen now because far too many men did not take the pro-life movement seriously enough to ensure that Roe stood. I’m lucky, in that in a worst case scenario, I have options. Most of my working class sisters do not.
I do agree that the democrats should lean heavily into a populist approach that’s broadly egalitarian, as long as that doesn’t include throwing trans people and POC under the bus.
But at the end of the day, I don’t htink we need to beg for this segment of Trump voters. I think we have to activate the disenchanted working classes and cynical middle classes, who are done with politics. Far too many people just do not vote, because they do not see a point and they don’t know how bad things can and will get because they were apathetic.
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No from the “what we did” section of the report:
We define working class as those without a college degree and who fall within the
bottom two-thirds of the income distribution.
Which isn’t quite the definition I’d use,as I digressed above, but the education segmentation is probably at least partially useful in the current context so ok
In the end, the broad appeal of an egalitarian, pro-worker approach is probably in its ability to turn out the disengaged, rather than directly flipping the persuadable voters, but it’s great if it does both, because - a) I’m not fussy about where such a strategy wins votes from so long as it does, b) aiming for the “reasonable” Liz Cheney fan really didn’t work so well, did it, and c) I really, really want to win because the other side are literally fascist and we know the consequences of not dealing with that quickly.
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And unions. The demographic that should be easiest for Dems to win (back) is unions.