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A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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The Democratic party is run by a bunch of people 70+ years old who are compromised and stuck in their ways. They are out of touch with the country and are only focused on being elected and staying elected, not running a country. Get them out of politics and to the retirement home.
Well, there is a massive crowd of people, even here, who doggedly defend the Democrat leadership with some variant of other of "they're better than the Republicans".
That aged, compromised, out of touch and stuck in their ways leadership has pretty much zero pressure to change and over the years has even increasingly relied on "vote us to stop the other guys" a their main campaign strategy.
Everytime some Democrat Party tribalist blames non-voters for their own party's electoral defeat after having used the "vote for the lesser evil" strategy once again, they're displaying a complete total lack of mid or long term view (just ponder on what's the natural evolution of management style for people whose personality type is 'seeks power' when their only limit for 'doing bad things' is 'less than those other guys who sell Racism and Violence') and just keep on digging that specific hole for their party.
Looking from the outside, maybe there's hope for the future of the Democrat Party through people like Zandani in NY, but my own experience in Britain with Corbyn is that the well entrenched "establishment" will doggedly fight against such people and even shamelessly ally with their supposed adversaries from "the other party" in order to stop such internal challengers trying to change the direction of the party back towards left of center.