Yes you read that right….Project 2029 not 2025.
This is the Dems new plan for upcoming elections….
Examining their last presidential election loss and looking ahead to 2028, Democrats are divided on whether the issue is that their candidates aren’t succeeding in selling voters on the party’s policies or the problem is the ideas themselves. So they plan to put together a book of Democratic stances, with a new section released every quarter, for candidates to work with in the next primaries, the New York Times reports. Project 2029 is modeled after the right-wing agenda President Trump disavowed as a candidate and put into action once in office, though not by name.
Party operatives aren’t concerned that their attacks on Project 2025 will rebound on them. They just need to tell a compelling story. In the 2024 campaign, “we didn’t lack policies,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster. “But we lacked a functioning narrative to communicate those policies.” She said her party’s candidates hit voters with “agencies and acronyms and statistics” rather than with a clear story about “what we’re going to fight for.” Installments in Project 2029 will be released quarterly in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
But it’s not just the format that Democrats can take a lesson from, said a former aide in Democratic White Houses who’s on the project’s advisory board. “Liberals underestimate the power of Trump’s ideas,” said Neera Tanden, adding that her party needs better ones to compete. “We get wrapped up in his personality. But he puts forward an idea like ‘No tax on tips,’ and that’s an important signifier that he is championing working-class people,” she added. The project has Democratic skeptics. “Developing policies by checking every coalitional box is how we got in this mess in the first place,” said Adam Jentleson, who’s mulling launching a new think tank.
After the 2024 election and Dems were handed their asses to them the chest thumping was trying to find a new direction that speaks more to the people….so far not has not happened….as a matter of fact the party loyalists even made sure that a true progressive was removed from the DNC, David Hogg.
The GOP used about 40 years to get where they are today and the Dems want to do the same thing in a year and half…..delusional my friends….but then Dems have always been delusional.
The status quo Dems cannot do anything but react to Trump as they have done for decades before…..and there is the resurgence of the conservative Blue Dog Dem (a post to follow later)….another telling example of where the DNC is headed…..NOWHERE!
Watch for my upcoming series on the Democratic Party and the problems it faces.
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“lego ergo scribo”
The DNC could do worse than offer too listen to what the people want from their Government and put the right policies in place..it must be made clear from the start that there will be no forgiveness for any treason from then on and that any fascism or similar will be prosecuted under the law
Examples must be made pour encourager less autres.
DNC is blowing smoke for its remaining supporters….there is a series coming soon with more stuff. chuq
I think there is good grounds for suspicion that Musk rigged the last election for Trump, and the Dems had a raw deal. But whatever happened, they need to offer some solid alternatives to Trump’s populist neo-fascism.
Best wishes, Pete.
That is just it……the Dems are more conserv than most of the GOP…..and it is getting worse with each election. chuq