Democratic (Party) Direction

Sanders didn't have this kind of agreement. And the main problem with the revelation that the agreement was only meant to be about the General Election isn't whether or not it is true, it's that Brazile left it out, undermining her credibility as to the rest of what she wrote completely. The agreement is still bad and stupid, but the story is basically more about DNC incompetence since 2008, culminating in the Hillary campaign having to bail them out, then it is about impartiality. The NPR story can still only mention the whole weekend debate controversy, as if that did any difference at all.

Sanders also signed a joint fundraising agreement, which is what this is. Highlighted language is typical right of review for a joint venture.

Clinton's joint fundraising agreement is a separate document. This was a memorandum on top of that, according to that NPR piece.

So Brazile apparently also claims in her book that she considered taking the nomination away from Clinton and making Biden and Corey Booker the ticket.

(For those who don't know, this is not actually something the head of the DNC can do.)

hoooo boy

A Twitter thread from Joy Reid:

A small note - that’s actually a big one - on the subject of “rigging...”

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 3, 2017

Mastery of trivia in the face of apocalypse is something, for sure

brazile is producing some...interesting quotes, if legit

This is such grandiloquent nonsense. The idea that Brazile had it in her power to do this but had mercy on Clinton’s followers. My god. pic.twitter.com/mBY8rD7y4i

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 4, 2017

this is definitely not a sign of a Party in terminal crisis https://t.co/PychLyplaJ

— LG (@TradWifeWineMom) November 5, 2017

Impossible to even follow that thread linked in there

how's the terminal crisis going

like this?

Favorable views of the Democratic Party have dropped to their lowest mark in more than a quarter century of polling, according to new numbers from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Only 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Democrats, down from 44% in March of this year....

Overall, 36% of registered voters who identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting next year, down from 44% who said so in September. That puts Democratic enthusiasm on par with that of Republicans, which stands at 37%.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-democrats-taxes/index.html

I read it too. What a difference 24 hours makes. I may wake up and wanna watch Lifeboat again.

you mean those two lesser-evil assholes that won last night make it all bed-der? Shirley, you can't be serious...

The downballot victories are more significant

possibly so. let's see if they can build on it. start by locking Schumer and Emanuel in a closet.

Having a white-hot hatred of the opposition tends to occlude one's vision into the faults of your erstwhile allies. But rationally speaking a lesser evil is better than a greater evil. No one calls a broken toe "good", but almost everyone will choose it over a broken neck as the "better" option.

Schumer is doing much better than i expected as Min Leader imo

in the last hour I've learned Donna Brazile is appearing on Tucker Carlson's show and she had a nice chat with Sheriff Clarke. My guess is she'll be replacing Omarosa by week's end.

seriously, every lefty who tried to welcome her to the flock because she put the HRC campaign on blast looks like a straight up clown right now.

xpost Yeah, he's kept the party united as an opposition party, especially when literally just one Dem defector could have made a big difference.

Can you believe all these libs supporting republicans who criticize trump? Disgusting

Donna Brazile welcome to the DSA

— Quinoa🖕Appropriator (@MattAlwaysWrong) November 5, 2017

ah thx, i forgot to post these. xxp

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-pundits-spent-yesterday-lying-about-dnc-primary-rigging-document-d60019c59c3e

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/

(No balanced lefty is going to 'welcome' a lifelong political hack that quickly, regardless of the conents of her book.)

Johnstone is a Seth Rich truther who also wrote a medium piece about how that left should ally with the alt-right.

sorry, i don't keep up

The Greenwald piece doesn’t really prove falsehoods just kind of claims it repeatedly.

sorry, i don't keep up

we know

i mean like Dem employees like Nerdstrom

lol i'm sposed to know every politics writer on the interwebz OOOH GOTCHA GOTCHA

greenwald can gtfo until he stops being a useful idiot for tucker carlson.

In NYC, ran into @donnabrazile and talked about her book. Even though our political views are polar opposite, we had a great conversation. Complimented her on her courage to out the DNC and #CrookedHillary. Say what you want, more Dems should tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/IBzP6Ma9jR

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November 8, 2017

Damn

clarke's hats are getting worse

love those photoshops where people make his hat gigantic and seat partway down his face

lol

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/resort-tycoon-says-hes-ordered-dem-leaders-to-adopt-pro-billionaire-platform-911c92a6116b

In the past few weeks, I've visited with three amazing women running as first-time candidates for Congress in largely rural districts. I have things to say about the Democratic Party

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) November 10, 2017

I mean it never fails pic.twitter.com/ZUdzgCLuGO

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 11, 2017

The trick is to move further left on issues that are broadly popular and not emphasize the issues that only appeal to a tiny niche. You can deal with the niche issues once you are in office and no one in the broad public will notice or care, while those in the tiny niche will be made happy and remember the favor.

That is way too sensible

outside of finance, there is no profession where people who have never won anything get to scold others on how to win more than dem political "strategist"

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 11, 2017

Related to that Molly Ball article I think we linked to upthread about the Third Way group going on safari, she was interviewed about this on Daniel Denvir’s show last week:

https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/28772955/the-hollow-center-with-molly-ball-and-eric-levitz/

Democratic Party's elevator pitch to millennials?

"Capitalism 2.0." - @MarkWarner
"We look like you." - @amyklobuchar#WSJCEOCouncil

— Josh Jamerson (@joshjame) November 14, 2017

lmao I came here to post that

"Means-testing on fleek."
"Endless drone warfare, but gender fluid."
"Airbnb for the prison-industrial complex."
"Swipe right-to-work."

— Andrew Moreturkey (@andrewmochulsky) November 14, 2017

The idea of a an "elevator pitch" containing anything of genuine political value is absurd to begin with. It's just "I like Ike" brought into the 21st century.

otoh, that goddamn "Contract with America" that Newt cooked up in 1996 probably did reach a lot of people who liked what it said and voted republican as a result. I sometimes wonder why that concept got booted to the curb in later elections. It had promise as a way to define the party political agenda and its identity, all in ten or so simple bullet points. Probably its because Newt bullied the entire House republican caucus to sign the thing and that feat has been impossible to replicate.

that joke sucks kingfish

The idea of a an "elevator pitch" containing anything of genuine political value is absurd to begin with. It's just "I like Ike" brought into the 21st century.

Oh I dunno, I think elevator pitches(or slogans in this case) containing inherent, inspirational values are useful.

“Change you can believe in” and “For the many, not the few” both work.

that joke sucks kingfish

Possibly, but I liked “Swipe right-to-work”

"Hope & Change" and "Make America Great Again" worked pretty well

If by working pretty well, you mean they created an emotional attraction on the art of some voters toward the candidate, I guess that could be seen as having 'political value'. But the sort of value I had in mind was more in terms of indicating the policies the candidate or party would pursue.

As far as setting policy direction, Hope & Change could just as easily apply to Trump starting a war with North Korea. It's a change. And we'd all be hoping like mad once it started. Making America Great Again could as easily promote returning to the income tax rates of 1960.

The manifesto thingy worked pretty well for Labour across the pond, but I guess over here nobody gives a shit about party platforms