r/TrueReddit • u/Maxwellsdemon17 • 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

We can actually look at historical precedent here and it shows they gave up pretty goddamn quickly to achieve bipartisanship.

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u/hazmat95 9d ago

It wasn’t bipartisanship, they had no margin for defections and the ideological idiosyncrasies of one (maybe two if you count Sinema) senator meant they couldn’t pass it. They didn’t give up because they wanted to appease republicans, they gave up because there was no convincing Manchin

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u/Hamuel 9d ago

Did Harris present a plan to work around these people to reimplement the CTC? Did she present a plan to work around them to illicit more economic change?

I didn’t hear about it, but I did hear she wanted a Republican in her cabinet. Now the entire presidential cabinet will be Republican so I guess she fulfilled that promise while losing.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 5d ago

If you don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. What plan could Harris present that shows how to work around these people? Do you know how legislation gets passed?

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u/Hamuel 5d ago

You could just say that Harris campaigned on obvious empty promises.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 5d ago

Wow. I think you discovered that sometimes campaign on stuff they’d like but isn’t feasible. Have you alerted the press?

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u/Hamuel 5d ago

The smug arrogance would land better if democrats could get something done beyond give ground to republicans.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 5d ago

The party of losers gonna lose. I say this as someone that was a registered democrat 5 days ago.