The Democrats’ botched 2024 autopsy doesn’t just leave out Gaza. It also simply pretends the left-populist upsurge embodied by Zohran Mamdani isn’t happening, while coveting its achievements.
It’s this anticipatory self‑sabotage that always makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the DNC has changed. While it’s not perfect, it’s far from where it was at. Hell the run in TN-7 shows that. Republicans designed the district to be R+22 and came up in that election as R+9. Democrats were able to get a ground game going under the nose of the Republicans.
What happens is that people don’t see ENOUGH change and just go full tilt doomer. Nothing changes overnight. People need to get over themselves. If Democrats do what they did for the special election in Tennessee for at least ten years straight, then Republicans are doomed. But there’s this propensity that if it doesn’t happen in the next twenty-four hours then it’ll never happen.
I really strongly encourage Democrats to give up on the doomer act here. Change is difficult, actual change takes time.
If people don’t turn up to vote for you THAT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT. Why the fuck is this so hard to understand?! I don’t give a fuck if republicans went and personally paid everyone a million dollars to vote for them, losing to that is still your fault! The team/political party that fucking loses must accept the fault for that! That’s the first fucking step to changing! Holy fucking shit why the fuck is this so hard to understand?!
(“Actual change takes time” imagine me saying that in the most snide fucking way as i remember how fucking fast my right to healthcare was snatched away from me as a woman. The privilege to not see how fast things are changing! Things can change fast! That’s what’s fucking happening right now!)
Yeah i seriously see this looking from the outside. There’s a whole gradient of nuance between the extremes of “It’s over, the billionaire backed DNC are Republicans just with nice words, nothing will ever change” and “We did it, it’s over for Trump, MAGA and the Republicans, Democrats have it in the bag, everything will be okay without any further action from us”. You can be optimistic or skeptical about whether change for the better can happen, but you don’t have to be completely nihilist nor complacent.
Keep going, keep envisioning what progress you want to see for the future, what changes and prosecution you want to see to prevent the resurgence of MAGA, and work towards that.
It’s this anticipatory self‑sabotage that always makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the DNC has changed. While it’s not perfect, it’s far from where it was at. Hell the run in TN-7 shows that. Republicans designed the district to be R+22 and came up in that election as R+9. Democrats were able to get a ground game going under the nose of the Republicans.
What happens is that people don’t see ENOUGH change and just go full tilt doomer. Nothing changes overnight. People need to get over themselves. If Democrats do what they did for the special election in Tennessee for at least ten years straight, then Republicans are doomed. But there’s this propensity that if it doesn’t happen in the next twenty-four hours then it’ll never happen.
I really strongly encourage Democrats to give up on the doomer act here. Change is difficult, actual change takes time.
If people don’t turn up to vote for you THAT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT. Why the fuck is this so hard to understand?! I don’t give a fuck if republicans went and personally paid everyone a million dollars to vote for them, losing to that is still your fault! The team/political party that fucking loses must accept the fault for that! That’s the first fucking step to changing! Holy fucking shit why the fuck is this so hard to understand?!
(“Actual change takes time” imagine me saying that in the most snide fucking way as i remember how fucking fast my right to healthcare was snatched away from me as a woman. The privilege to not see how fast things are changing! Things can change fast! That’s what’s fucking happening right now!)
Yeah i seriously see this looking from the outside. There’s a whole gradient of nuance between the extremes of “It’s over, the billionaire backed DNC are Republicans just with nice words, nothing will ever change” and “We did it, it’s over for Trump, MAGA and the Republicans, Democrats have it in the bag, everything will be okay without any further action from us”. You can be optimistic or skeptical about whether change for the better can happen, but you don’t have to be completely nihilist nor complacent.
Keep going, keep envisioning what progress you want to see for the future, what changes and prosecution you want to see to prevent the resurgence of MAGA, and work towards that.
It’s the billionaires desperately wanting to depress Dem primary turnout…
If they can get someone like Newsom to the general, he would name the new DNC chair if elected.
And neoliberals would get the party back. We can’t afford to let that happen, so the most important thing is getting people to vote in the Dem primary