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Trump holds national address in rally style speech blaming Biden for the state of his nation
(www.the-independent.com)
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The rot sent in when Trump got into office. The data shows that clearly. The Dems should be highlighting all his weak excuses and low-effort attempts at blame-shifting. Hang this crap economy right around Trump's neck where it belongs.
And remember that, excluding the AI bubble, there has been essentially no economic growth at all lately. Well, 0.1%.
They are doing that, all the time. You choose not to listen.
Most corporatist/centrist Dems stand to benefit from the current status-quo and aren’t incentivised to support any radical shakeups.
This is causing the increasingly nihilistic populace (younger millennials and Gen Z) to flock to the extremes of the political spectrum. They rushed to Trump because he promised to improve their lot in life, and now they’re realising it was all a lie. They’re the cause for the 10+ point swings we’ve seen in the special and off-year elections thus far.
However, unless progressives are able to challenge and unseat existing Dems in sufficient numbers to be able to put forward a strong change in policy - we are only going to witness yet another exodus of support from the party towards the next GOP firebrand making false promises.
It takes longer to mend something than it does to break it, and I fear it will take 3-4 strong Dem presidential terms to undo the damage of the two Trump presidencies, let alone set the nation on a path towards prosperity.
Fucking bullshit buzzwords...exactly why we have Trump.
Needlessly dividing the party ensuring the issue you pretend to care about will continue to worsen.
Support among those younger voters for Trump has plummeted, maybe you shouldn't have put so much effort in pushing your "both sides" propaganda, encouraging their nihilism.
Stop carrying water for the DNC, they don’t deserve it.
You have Trump (both times) because the vast majority of the population were unhappy with their circumstances, and the trajectory it was on.
How is it dividing the party to propose they follow their own bylaws and face a suits or primary challenge? Why is it their divine right to run unopposed, what - just because they’re incumbent septuagenarians who’ve gotten ungodly wealthy off insider trading and kick-backs from corporate lobbyists?
Make no mistake, the Dems are on track to win big in the mid-terms and in the 2028 election. But with feckless figures like Schumer and Jefferies at the helm, they are all but guaranteed to squander this once in a generation opportunity to make a fundamental change in the direction of the nation.
And when they inevitably drop the ball, young voters will seesaw back away from the Dems just as quickly as they did from Trump, and Biden before him.
Without a strong, progressive solution towards income, healthcare and housing affordability for the bottom 80%, and soon - America will not be able to pull itself out of the death-spiral it currently finds itself in.
More of the same failed Liberal policies simply won’t suffice in this day and age, and you are a gullible fool if you still think that it is.