I’m generally not a “both sides” person, but if anything has become obvious in the last several months/years, the majority of establishment Dems are just as bad when it comes to holding onto power. RBG, Feinstein, Pelosi, Biden. MAGA has been cultivating their next generations, and now the Dems seem convinced they need to move right despite seemingly everything and everyone telling them they abandoned the working class and the economy sucks regardless of the stock market.
I agree, Dems have not worked on generational change. Strangely when they put forward a candidate that is a younger generation, they loose to an old oligarch which favors neither the working class or the generational change.
Ironically, the GOP is not and never has been a working class party but a lot of working class people have moved there. What they have been able to do is talk to the working class and have much more folksie candidates. Plus large parts of the US is not ready for anything but a white male president.
What they have been able to do is talk to the working class and have much more folksie candidates.
Because they have populist candidates. Obama winning was such a political upset in the GOP that it largely silenced the Republicans who had been suppressing their populist, right-wing flank (the Tea Party, at that time), and once that dam broke they very quickly had tons and tons of young, populist, “folksie” candidates get in office.
The DNC on the other hand has moved to quash their populist flank even harder, and tried to reassert their top-down control of the party. Obama wasn’t the DNC-favored candidate in the 2008 primaries -that was Hilary- and they were eager to ensure that kind of upset never happened again. The easiest way to do that is just to prevent any new blood from getting in.
I’m generally not a “both sides” person, but if anything has become obvious in the last several months/years, the majority of establishment Dems are just as bad when it comes to holding onto power. RBG, Feinstein, Pelosi, Biden. MAGA has been cultivating their next generations, and now the Dems seem convinced they need to move right despite seemingly everything and everyone telling them they abandoned the working class and the economy sucks regardless of the stock market.
I agree, Dems have not worked on generational change. Strangely when they put forward a candidate that is a younger generation, they loose to an old oligarch which favors neither the working class or the generational change.
Ironically, the GOP is not and never has been a working class party but a lot of working class people have moved there. What they have been able to do is talk to the working class and have much more folksie candidates. Plus large parts of the US is not ready for anything but a white male president.
Because they have populist candidates. Obama winning was such a political upset in the GOP that it largely silenced the Republicans who had been suppressing their populist, right-wing flank (the Tea Party, at that time), and once that dam broke they very quickly had tons and tons of young, populist, “folksie” candidates get in office.
The DNC on the other hand has moved to quash their populist flank even harder, and tried to reassert their top-down control of the party. Obama wasn’t the DNC-favored candidate in the 2008 primaries -that was Hilary- and they were eager to ensure that kind of upset never happened again. The easiest way to do that is just to prevent any new blood from getting in.