The fall of Roe is the culmination of the Democratic establishment’s failures
It took long enough, but nevertheless – it is nice to see my position (that I’ve held consistently for the past 20 years) being widely adopted as the conventional wisdom.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the underwhelming reaction from senior Democratic leaders to that huge defeat, make the case even clearer that the party’s too-long-in-power leaders — including President Biden — need to move aside. On their watch, a radicalized Republican Party has gained so much power that it’s on the verge of ending American democracy as we know it.
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Pelosi, Biden and other Democratic leaders of course don’t sit on the Supreme Court or in state legislatures. But too many of them have been major players in the party over the past two decades as it has failed to create an apparatus of media, think tanks and other institutions to rival what exists on the right. They have been deeply involved in bland Democratic campaigns and candidates who often lose key races to Republicans, even as the GOP has much less popular policy goals.
Get off the fucking stage, you losers.
The current iteration of the Democratic Party has been headed for extinction ever since the Clintonians made corporations its principal funding source.
Yup. But some people made big bucks along the way, so at least there is that.
As a Boomer I watched as the W.W. II generation over stayed it’s welcome, but at the same time I knew the Boomers would do the same. We’re now at that point with a collection of politicians pushing 80 years old. As noted Biden is very much one of them. Start looking now for the 2024 Dem nominee for president, feel free to throw stuff but I think it will be Gavin Newsome of California.