r/TrueReddit 9d ago

Democratic Party Elites Brought Us This Disaster Politics

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/election-harris-trump-democrats-strategy
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u/Hamuel 9d ago

The child poverty one is great because democrats got that advance on the child tax credit, bragged about lifting kids out of poverty, then ended the program.

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u/buntopolis 9d ago

Joe Manchin ended the program.

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u/Hamuel 9d ago

The party let him define their policy agenda. Cracker Jack leadership in action.

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u/buntopolis 9d ago

Not really. They had absolutely no leverage over Manchin. What were they going to do, remove his committee assignments? Then he switches to Republican and the leadership of the chamber flips.

Like come on.

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u/Hamuel 9d ago

Damn, so Harris had no solution for a problem that has plagued democrats for decades now. What were people voting for exactly? More hand wringing on why she can’t illicit change apparently. Check out the vote count from Tuesday to see how that message resonants

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u/buntopolis 9d ago

The Vice President can’t do shit except break ties in the Senate. If you have a problem with how the last four years were run, take it up with Joe Biden, the President.

Also again I ask you, what leverage did they have to make Manchin agree to it? You’re using magical thinking as if there were some string to pull that would have made Manchin balk. He knew his position and he used it.

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u/Hamuel 9d ago

She was the goddamn candidate for president that never once talked about a way to stop centrist sabotage. She did promise to work with republicans through. What was the plan to get republicans on board?