This is a good idea, to an extent, especially your observations on Schumer, who I just don’t trust. His ties to Wall Street and his reputation as a deal maker give me second thoughts.
Brown and Warren are up for re-election in 2018, they will be focused on their races. Brown is in red Ohio so he will have a tough fight. As much as I like Brown he doesn’t seem interested in the Presidency and made clear he wasn’t to be included in Hillary’s Veep hunt. Warren will be 71 in 2020. Dems should be looking at younger Senators, like Chris Murphy.
Quite frankly, the Dems need to block any attempts by the Republicans on infrastructure spending. Yes, we need it and jobs are good but the credit will all go to the GOP, not the Dems. A reminder, Republicans obstructed Obama’s jobs bills and infrastructure plans. They poisoned the well and should not get a free pass from spineless Dems.
But the things that Bernie was in a position to be tarnished by were never really exposed. And they would have been.
This conjecture seems pretty unhelpful.
It is pretty far fetched to propose that Trump will generate a wave of support for any agenda. He’s already proving to be too chaotic and unfocused to pursue any long-term agenda.
More likely what we will get is a somewhat disconnected effort to enact right wing policies driven by his various agents and an ongoing sh*tstorm of neurotic reactions from Trump himself. In the end, he’ll anger just about everyone and look incompetent in the process. We’re already seeing this on day 4.
And,yes, the democrats badly need to get their act together as quickly as possible.
Bernie was simply unelectable. Just read up on his life and you will understand. One of Clinton’s many mistakes was she didn’t bring attention to Bernie’s past, thus allowing the legend of Bernie to grow.
He was a classic deadbeat for a good part of his life. Never held a job, scammed unemployment, and ran extension cords into his neighbors outlets whenever his power was turned off. He even wrote an article mocking people who rode the NY subway on their way to work. I am guessing the Rust Belt voters that went for Trump wouldn’t take kindly to an electricity stealing dead beat.
The bullshit is as high as the papers trump displayed when he signed his tax return so ostentatiously for our benefit. The only question we need to ask as to who to nominate is: Will that person bring out the voters who came out for Obama and will that person appeal to trump’s crazy base. The first is easier to accomplish than the second. But it’s not Warren or any other white lady currently in the senate. Low information people seem to want a male figure leading them, hence, trumpet.
I finally joined Prime after a lot of long thoughts. Sometimes I was getting so close, then every time I was close some bullshit crap was published giving me a pause. Those two contributors you mentioned – and what the decision to have people like those two may indicate about TPM – was among those reasons that had held me for long.
You know what finally persuaded me? The first showing of Spicer. That did it. That Soviet-style authoritarian propaganda bullshit did it. This subscription is more akin to my donations to civil rights organizations. I absolutely have no faith in the MSM in the face of that kind of bullshit and indies like TPM need to step up. That doesn’t mean I am happy Josh has picked writers like Judis and Avishai. I’m as unhappy as ever.
time will tell…but…i dont believe people (maybe even here) realize how bad things are going to get.
and this is why i say schumer is to tepid.
ANY hint that democrats will be assisting the pretender in achieving his goals to dismantal the working class will doom the democrats to marginability for the next 10 years.
and notice i do NOT say anything about impeachment…i maintain the pretender will be so unpopular that the party will force him out of office…rather then allow an actual vote.
i dont believe the person who will take the reigns of the growing anger that will sweep through the land…is yet apparent.
the ticket for 2020…MUST reach out and capture the youth and must insure the turn out of AA voters…i dont know who they will be…but i do know it cant be the type of democrat represented by the status quo.
As soon as you get the money out of politics, then you can have pure candidates. When Booker doesn’t have to raise $100M to run and then do things he may not want to to have a chance to do ANY good, then you can have perfect candidates.
And don’t bring up Sanders as a candidate who proves you don’t need the money. He lives in a state the size of my closet. Over thirty years he has glad-handed and personally spoken to every voter in the state.
No Senator has a luxury of deviating from this pattern, because they represent their state’s interests and need to protect the jobs and the industries dominant there that create those jobs. That industry happens to be pharma in NJ, and unfortunately for lawmakers from NJ (and I put it in general terms because it’s not about Booker personally) that’s one of the industries that raise automatic ire among a certain wing of progressives.
Yes, I would love it passed. And no, I’m not saying he should be running. But I wouldn’t call his vote “unconscionable and disqualifying.”
