this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
148 points (95.7% liked)

News

32975 readers
3248 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, it’s often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administration—and other Democratic leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution and respect for parliamentary safeguards and procedures to hobble ambition, frustrating voters and making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance as our civic cure-all.

This reading has now picked up the endorsement of a surprising group: A large bloc of former high-level members of the Biden administration.

The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesday—with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agencies—that seeks to diagnose the administration’s governing mistakes and failures. The report, provided in advance to The New Republic, may be the most ambitious effort involving Biden officials to determine what went wrong and why.

In the report, Biden officials extensively identify big failings in governing and in the execution of the politics around big decisions—but with an eye toward creating the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda. The result is a kind of proto-blueprint for Democratic governance to show that it can work the next time the party has power.

“We must reckon honestly with how we got here and why the American public has been so frustrated with these institutions for so long,” Roosevelt Institute president Elizabeth Wilkins writes in the report’s introduction. “The rising authoritarianism we see today shows us the stakes.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

right, right, because USA hasn't moved so far right, center doesn't exist, and Democrats didn't hand-wring and capitulate at every opportunity. Meanwhile, the EU is certainly a shining example of democracy...🧐😮‍💨🤮

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Democratic party platform is healthcare for all, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich. People like you seem to never be able to elaborate how the USA is further right, but that never stops you from repeating the lie.

You want the USA to stop moving to the right? Elect more than 48 DNC senators for the first time in over ten years.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

MF we've pointed it out repeatedly! Nixon was to the economic left of Clinton, Obama or Biden, I've lived here for six decades, but do go on at telling me I'm wrong!

Platforms don't mean shit without codification and Dems conveniently excuse not doing any of it for 40 years, meanwhile GOP GET THINGS DONE. Not that they're good things but they deliver what they promise. Dems wear kente cloths and vote for Rep agendas.

ETA moreover, Nixon was environmentally left of Democrats since then, too.

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The solution was to roll your sleeves up and pull the country back left but you were apparently too busy jerking yourself off over being above it all. You register in closed primaries, stump for progressives and primary incumbent and establishment dems that aren't progressive enough. You get grassroots support because these are wildly popular positions and always have been. But that's a lot more work than just wanking off to "both sides bad". Bit late for all that now though isn't it Maeve?

For the record the guy you're arguing with clearly doesn't understand what the terms he's using actually mean, but that doesn't give you an excuse to spout literal Russian propaganda points.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I voted and supported my candidate who damn sure didn't run on genocide and campaigning with Liz Cheney. That was the solution, not wanking off and voting to "move farther right just one more time bro, I promise this time it's going to work!" 🤡🌎

The candidate, I will add, whom Democrats sued to keep off ballots in swing states.

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There it is. Congratulations, your principles and/or lack of understanding of how our federal system operates is responsible for Trump. Own it. You are the American that failed the open book test. I hope you get first have experience of everything you voted for.

Edit: wait holy shit did you vote green party? Did you vote for the actually literally a Russian spoiler party and wanna talk about Democrats? That's a choice alright.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth -1 points 4 days ago

🤡🤓

Eta: I'm not young enough to know it all, nor old enough to be entirely forgetful. I'm in between, where I know and remember how many candidates Dems sued to keep off the ballots, while doing genocide and other war crimes.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nixon sold drugs to black communities, is recorded on tape ranting about jews, kept a war going for personal gain, etc.

He might have saved some trees and whales, but he wasn't left of jack shit. Here's him talking about the dangers of homosexuality:

"They have a problem. They're born that way. You know that. That's all. I think they are. Boy Scout leaders, YMCA leaders and others bring them in that direction and teachers," Nixon said. "And if you look over the history of societies, you will find, of course, that some of the highly intelligent people - Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, etc., etc., etc., were all homosexuals ... Once a society moves in that direction, the vitality goes out of that society."

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't know the difference between "economically left" and "socially left" without telling me you don't know the difference.

Uh guyz, people are starving and homeless but it's fine if we arrest the homeless with rainbow zip ties! 🤓

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world -1 points 4 days ago

Left means progress. There is no distinction between economically and socially left in the context of progress, you either lead to a better future for everyone or you don't.