Unless the new DNC Chair is ready to lead a Reformation, they will be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Senate Dems continue dragging their feet on even non controversial Cabinet appointments, just because they can. House Dems, overwhelmingly, still refuse to back a bill that streamlines deportation of convicted migrant sex offenders and domestic abusers.
All over the US, Dem Mayors, still, will not allow ICE agents into jails, where they can safely apprehend migrants for deportation. Inexplicably, Dems insist on protecting convicted murders, rapists, wife beaters, child molesters, drug dealers, carjackers and their ilk.
Dems maintain this indefensible stand, hoping for a tragedy, where an innocent child is somehow harmed by ICE agent, as they attempt to take into custody, a deportable violent migrant felon. The callousness of the policy, should surprise no one. Dems have repeatedly demonstrated, protecting women and children, is no longer a Party priority. A new leader seems unlikely, to change those policies.
The stand is both sad and ironic, because the first Dem to support the quick deportation of sex offenders and to demand every American city, open their jails to ICE, would instantly be on the Dem Presidential nominee shortlist. Dems simply lack the courage to buck the Progressive wing of the Party.
"Reenergizing a party still nursing its wounds from a devastating defeat is an incredibly tough assignment," -- Nate Moore
Reenergizing a party that sees gender as a choice rather than a birthright, a party that believes in a dangerous world open borders is the answer, and a party that places complicated, nonsensical and yes discriminatory Jim Crow era racial identity ahead of merit and character in hiring and promotion is a fool's errand.
Parties change, and so do the sensibilities of the public.
The uber-laissez-faire Democrat, Grover Cleveland, eventually gives way to interventionist state capitalist FDR. A public defined by government minimalism gets hit with the Great Depression and embraces The New Deal.
The Republican party of Rockefeller, safeguards of the Gilded Age captains of industry and their sprawling monopolistic empires, eventually gives way to the party of trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt. A public that admires said captains of industry sees their empires become corrupt and oppressive, and sours on them.
A party of segregationists becomes a party of civil rights supporters; the party of Lincoln and racial emancipation ends up embracing Goldwater.
It would behoove you to remember a rule of finance: it is in the period of stability, when things seem inevitable, that the seeds of great instability are sown. The debt bubble that imploded in '08 wasn't born in '06 or '07--it was born in the 1990s, when the future seemed assured and no amount of lending seemed too great. The roots of the Great Depression, if you follow them, take you back to the 1920s, when Irving Fisher--the economist who would come to understand the Depression better than any of his peers, after losing all his riches when it came--said "we are living in a new era", and the stock market would rise forever. As it goes in finance, so it goes in politics. You could wager now that the Democrats are a dead party, never to rule again--or you could wager that the GOP is probably already establishing the basis for their resurrection at some point in the future. I'd take the latter wager 99.9% of the time--and anyone who thinks the world will persist past tomorrow ought to, as well.
Eh, I disagree; I think the recession will actually come as interest rates rise and the AI hype bubble pops. Tariffs and overly hasty budget cuts could make the downturn worse, though. If I had to guess I'd say later in Trump’s term...but you never know, could be earlier, or not come at all until after 2028. We shall see.
Unless the new DNC Chair is ready to lead a Reformation, they will be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Senate Dems continue dragging their feet on even non controversial Cabinet appointments, just because they can. House Dems, overwhelmingly, still refuse to back a bill that streamlines deportation of convicted migrant sex offenders and domestic abusers.
All over the US, Dem Mayors, still, will not allow ICE agents into jails, where they can safely apprehend migrants for deportation. Inexplicably, Dems insist on protecting convicted murders, rapists, wife beaters, child molesters, drug dealers, carjackers and their ilk.
Dems maintain this indefensible stand, hoping for a tragedy, where an innocent child is somehow harmed by ICE agent, as they attempt to take into custody, a deportable violent migrant felon. The callousness of the policy, should surprise no one. Dems have repeatedly demonstrated, protecting women and children, is no longer a Party priority. A new leader seems unlikely, to change those policies.
The stand is both sad and ironic, because the first Dem to support the quick deportation of sex offenders and to demand every American city, open their jails to ICE, would instantly be on the Dem Presidential nominee shortlist. Dems simply lack the courage to buck the Progressive wing of the Party.
"Reenergizing a party still nursing its wounds from a devastating defeat is an incredibly tough assignment," -- Nate Moore
Reenergizing a party that sees gender as a choice rather than a birthright, a party that believes in a dangerous world open borders is the answer, and a party that places complicated, nonsensical and yes discriminatory Jim Crow era racial identity ahead of merit and character in hiring and promotion is a fool's errand.
Parties change, and so do the sensibilities of the public.
The uber-laissez-faire Democrat, Grover Cleveland, eventually gives way to interventionist state capitalist FDR. A public defined by government minimalism gets hit with the Great Depression and embraces The New Deal.
The Republican party of Rockefeller, safeguards of the Gilded Age captains of industry and their sprawling monopolistic empires, eventually gives way to the party of trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt. A public that admires said captains of industry sees their empires become corrupt and oppressive, and sours on them.
A party of segregationists becomes a party of civil rights supporters; the party of Lincoln and racial emancipation ends up embracing Goldwater.
It would behoove you to remember a rule of finance: it is in the period of stability, when things seem inevitable, that the seeds of great instability are sown. The debt bubble that imploded in '08 wasn't born in '06 or '07--it was born in the 1990s, when the future seemed assured and no amount of lending seemed too great. The roots of the Great Depression, if you follow them, take you back to the 1920s, when Irving Fisher--the economist who would come to understand the Depression better than any of his peers, after losing all his riches when it came--said "we are living in a new era", and the stock market would rise forever. As it goes in finance, so it goes in politics. You could wager now that the Democrats are a dead party, never to rule again--or you could wager that the GOP is probably already establishing the basis for their resurrection at some point in the future. I'd take the latter wager 99.9% of the time--and anyone who thinks the world will persist past tomorrow ought to, as well.
Dems need to keep people with names like Faiz Shakir out of leadership positions. It's not a good look among working class voters.
Recession is coming. Trump just froze $615 billion in work on Biden’s climate and health care law and his bipartisan infrastructure law.
Recession is coming.
Trump froze $615 billion on Biden’s climate/health care law and his bipartisan infrastructure law.
He froze federal grant money worth $1.78 trillion.
Both total $2.4 trillion.
US Budget for 2024 was $6.75 trillion
1/3rd of Federal expenses on hold.
US GDP is $29 trillion.
8% of US economy is suddenly on hold.
Eh, I disagree; I think the recession will actually come as interest rates rise and the AI hype bubble pops. Tariffs and overly hasty budget cuts could make the downturn worse, though. If I had to guess I'd say later in Trump’s term...but you never know, could be earlier, or not come at all until after 2028. We shall see.