After having their asses handed to them in the last election the Dems have started formulating a new plan to balance the sheet.

The Dems lost support among their staunchest supports of years past….

What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite.

The primary driver of the election outcome was an angry working-class rejection of the status quo and deep cost-of-living crisis proudly presided over by the Democrats. Traditional Democratic voters who had faced sky-high grocery prices, gas, rent, alongside crumbling social infrastructure were told to buck up and vote for Kamala Harris, or else. They were told to ignore the genocide in Gaza, and worse yet to vote for the genocider. The only thing the Democrats offered to working people was a recycled anti-Trump campaign.

Predictably, the Democrats hemorrhaged working-class support and managed to lose ground in virtually every part of their base: the Arab and Muslim American community, Black voters, Latino voters, young people, and even women.

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Harris abandoned a raft of progressive policies that are wildly popular, some of which were featured on ballot initiatives that won by big margins in states that went for Trump. Voters approved minimum wage increases, including to $15/hour (Alaska and Missouri), expanded workers’ ability to earn paid sick leave in three states (Alaska, Missouri, and Nebraska), rejected school vouchers (Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska), and opted to ban anti-union captive audience meetings (Alaska).

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/the-democrats-deserved-to-lose-1000-times-over/

I agree that the Democratic Party needs new and fresh leadership…..

The leadership of the Democratic Party deserves significant blame for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. While there were multiple factors at play, it must be acknowledged that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their enablers engaged in vast levels of political malpractice despite countless warnings from many key voices and constituencies. 

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If we want a Democratic Party that can produce different outcomes, we will need to hold the current party accountable for its failures. That means matching our demands for change with the force and pressure of real accountability. The Democratic leadership must itself be targeted with campaigns that highlight the principles of electoral success while punishing those responsible for the party’s continued defeats. I’m building a campaign to do exactly that, and here’s how I think we can win.

Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party

And now they have a plan or at least the beginning of a plan….

Let me say this is something that should have been done back as early as 1992 but no they had faith….and it bit them in the ass as faith has a way of doing.

But now the Dems have a plan of action (My responses will be typed in red)

With Republicans about to have control of the White House, Senate, and House, Democrats are coming to the conclusion that Washington might not be the best place to mount their comeback. Instead, the New York Times reports, elected Democrats are forming a plan to build their opposition in the states they dominate politically. In Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison said his office has been readying a strategy in the event Donald Trump returned to power for more than a year. “States in our system have a lot of power,” Ellison said. “We’re entrusted with protecting people, and we’re going to do it.” Steps include:

• Going to court: Hundreds of lawyers are being recruited to challenge Trump administration policies. Advocacy groups are lining up potential plaintiffs and workshopping cases to fight regulations, laws, and administrative actions that Democrats anticipate. A legal group formed after Trump’s election in 2016 has raised millions, enlisted more than 800 lawyers, and learned lessons from his first administration, per the Times. “No one was running to the courthouse on a range of things that matter to people in communities,” said Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward. “Resistance this time is a lot more about collective power building. It’s using the law and using litigation.”

This may be a little late since the last Trump admin stacked the courts in his favor)

• Focusing on governors: There are 23 Democratic governors. They’ve articulated varying strategies so far. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy suggests cooperating with Republicans where possible. “It’s a combination of fight where you need to fight, and that includes everything—legal action, a bullhorn, peaceful protests and civil disobedience,” Murphy said. “And then at the same time, we can’t close off the opportunity to find common ground.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have begun preparations for confrontations, with Newsom calling a special session of the legislature to fund court fights. Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis formed a group called Governors Safeguarding Democracy; not all Democratic governors agreed to join.

This idea is about 25 years too late

• Working remotely: Strategists say they’re trying to coordinate policy among Democratic-run states and urging the party to think local. “Emerging policy experts and political organizers who want to make a difference—don’t go to Washington,” said Arkadi Gerney, urging them to go instead to capitals in blue and purple states and work to make those places great.

Again may be too late….this should have been a priority a couple of decades ago.

Check out the rest of the plan below.

The Times reports the scope of Democratic plans here.

These are good and solid ideas the problem as I see it is as I have stated it is a bit late.  With the temperament of the nation as it is today these ideas may be as self-defeating as some of their ‘big’ ideas from years ago.

Thoughts?

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