Democratic (Party) Direction

jail trump. impeach garland

universal basic income, medicare for all, tuition-free public universities, weed legal over the age of 21

the "statue" stuff, in this next step, could bite non-Confederate Dems in the ass

http://gothamist.com/2017/08/22/not_so_columbus_circle.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb7BIaaxGAU

love 2 get my history from statues

haha whoops I meant this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSlX36QP_po

I, for one, think we should remove any and all statues of Artie Bucco and replace them with statues of Charmaine Bucco

Let's put up some statues of osso buco.

Paul Ryan sonned by a nun

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57140/paul-ryan-nun-town-hall/

racine is a rough crowd for janesville frauds

that doesn't sound particularly sonn-y to me - she asked a pointed question that he promptly and ably skated away from as he has a million times before

I mean this is why the GOP loves him as a "policy wonk" etc because he acts like he is actually answering those questions with specific policy solutions grounded in conservative principles, he doesn't get flustered at all.

mnuchin tax: 75% above $5 million

Here's a 2005 story about Democratic Party fundraising letters of the past, when they also had contempt for everyone @andsat pic.twitter.com/mrrLFvNDiH

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 22, 2017

"They used a font that looked like handwriting" is a good reason not to vote dem

GOP contracts to have all their envelopes hand-addressed by Sri Lankan children iirc

"But their snail mails..."

both sides are blase so promote republicans (or at least don't cheer for the democrats)

tick.jpg xp

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2017/08/the-voters-are-economically-insecure.html

stevie you are the monarch of missed points

and you are the guy who shares dennis perrin tweets

as part of whatever plea bargain 3Ks makes with mueller, pence and gorsuch should have to resign, too

Go on?

pres. paul ryan

http://i.imgur.com/1wlDoVL.png

xxp and everyone should get a pony in this fantasy scenario

http://dougjonesforsenate.com/

Ryan should ditch the moustache and go full Lincoln.

aka the Bork

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inZCNrkGRc0s/v1/-1x-1.jpg

Erm, maybe the Koop.

(I feel like Bork went stacheless for a time too, but maybe I'm mistaken.)

Forecast is for Democrats to get 54 percent of the vote and only 47 percent of the seats. https://t.co/IE898c52Ca

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 24, 2017

sounds fair

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/f/fb/Roy_Snyder_%28Official_image%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20141026132126

the GOP aided and abetted former KGB agents making fools of the USA, stirring the Nazi / KKK pot in the process, all to cut taxes on their "libertarian" donors, when inequality is already at historic highs. shouldn't be a tough sell, DNC

I mean what you just said is exactly what I hear from Schumer / Ellison / Harris / Perez / Warren every single day -- it's literally the party line! And yeah, I think it's selling.

Need to get fundraising consultants to stop being ass hats - except then who do you hire to do the fundraising

Meanwhile Sanders continues to be Capt. Save-A-Trumpkin:

Sanders defends Trump voters: Most aren't racist, sexist, deplorables https://t.co/hWkfVsXxrv pic.twitter.com/fI2EaD2Aj6

— The Hill (@thehill) April 1, 2017

I mean I get what he's trying to do, or what he thinks he's trying to do, but the voters he's talking about would have looked at a Trump-Sanders race and thought, "Hmmm, I can vote for all this populist/working class messaging OR I can get that plus get rid of Mexicans and black people??" **pulls lever hard for Trump**

The thing is, Sanders is right -- the numerical majority of Trump voters are just the usual upper-middle-class white Republicans in suburbs who would never go to a Nazi rally (but who also would keep on having dinner with their uncle if their uncle were a Nazi.) It would actually be better if people would break out of thinking that Trump voters are "anti-elite" when the truth is more like "As always, the GOP voters were substantially wealthier than the Democratic voters, but somewhat less so in 2016 than when Mitt Romney was the candidate"

"the usual upper-middle-class white Republicans in suburbs who would never go to a Nazi rally" often intersects pretty neatly with "racist, sexist and homophobic." (Racism is why suburbs exist!!) It's not, like, a perfect-circle Venn diagram but the overlap is not trivial. Why he continues to push that these are the voters Democrats needs to pursue rather than get a candidate who can attract traditionally-Democratic 2016 non-voters is bizarre to me.

seems he's buying into the 'ignored working class' trope that everybody relies on because it's easier than admitting that rich white people are racist

It's almost as though Sanders is a politician thinking about effective rhetorical strategies to win over voters rather than claiming a meaningless moral high ground.

These are not voters he is going to win.

I feel like we're really beating this to death but the left strategy for the democrats is not to win over rich racist white people, but to simultaneously win over working class "Reagan democrat" types AND turn out more minority and young voters by focusing on an economic message with broad appeal. Appealing to rich suburban white closet racists was Clinton's strategy.

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Remember?

that's what we're saying, and considering trump voters are rich suburban white closet racists it's strange that he's letting trump voters off the hook

Working class "Reagan democrat" types became Reagan democrats BECAUSE OF RACISM. Pulling them "back" into the Democratic coalition (assuming it could be done at all, since they're mostly older types who skew Republican anyway) would make it harder, not easier, to pass a left/progressive agenda. Universal healthcare? Maybe/probably. Higher minimum wage? Probably. Dismantling the prison/industrial complex? LOL no. Stopping overseas adventurism? Nah.

Like we shouldn't really have to keep covering the point that winning over Trump voters means winning over marginal Trump voters, not most or all trump voters. Its such a politically naive strawman argument.

Can we get a 100% certain summary of what would work pls, just so we can buy/sell our dollars prior to the next war ye start thx

Just the summary of what would definitely work pls thx