'Straight-up BS': Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders' election critique. Sanders' analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison.
Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison
Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.
“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”
Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.
He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”
What's crazy to me is how many libs will forget this feeling of betrayal and the steps the DNC took to get here. Just like '16, '20 and '24 there will be goldfish-eyed believers bloopin at leftists to vote for their new neoliberal x% Hitler in 4 years.
I wonder what republican fucker they'll have to fear monger against by then.
I honestly don't think Trump would try to change the laws in order to run for a third term. I feel like he mostly ran again out of spite and ego, but won't want to deal with the burden of the presidency a third time.
It is remarkable that he's the first president ever to do that, and it's literally the bare minimum of supporting the working class. That he's the first is more of an indictment of the US government than a sign of progress
I would be glad to have him back as an enemy of the DNC. For all his flaws and all the disappointment of his willingness to associate with Biden, he really does seem to hate the democratic party insiders and I have fun seeing it. If Hillary kills him I think we should regard him as a martyr.
Agreed. If Hillary has BernDog shot we all forget everything that happened since super tuesday in 20 and pretend that he was a cool old dude who gave his life for a better world, cut down in his prime but the Klinton Krime Klique.
for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.
...without any plan (or probably even intention) for getting those policies past even the conservative wing of her own party.
You can trip over your own feet a couple times and folks will forgive you, but when it becomes routine you risk crossing the trust thermocline.
I think so, and this dork's analysis is consistent with that since the dems keep trying to claim credit for programs that helped people years ago, which they ended, as though anyone remembers or gives a shit when they're struggling now.
They didn't technically 'end it', they let it expire, but functionally yes. They let Joe Manchin (remember that boogeyman) 'air concerns' and act as the scapegoat for letting it end.
A conclusion of the Chair's (false) argument is that appealing to the working class doesn't win elections, therefore why should they be appeal to in the future
You could argue that a pandemic which killed millions while Trump talked about drinking bleach was their Truss tanks the economy in a day moment. 2020 was an abboration that got Biden over the line. I'd argue the yanks are one election cycle ahead on this trajectory compare to us Brits, rather than one election cycle behind.
Let's pretend, for a moment, that everything he said is true about Bernie's critique. What is his explanation for the DNC loss, and a drop of 15 million votes? I looked at his Twitter after he posted this yesterday morning, and there's nothing except retweets.
Harrison probably thinks the solution is to simply beg for more money, lose, and then beg some more. If it worked for him in his state, it can work nation wide.