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i really thought the sell out democrats would be a lot better at co-opting other movements

I didn't have the highest expectations for Jefferies, but I was hoping I could be shown that he would do good. The level to which I shot in the other direction...

we need angry new leadership that is ready to throw these traitors in jail day 1

He did use the question for an attack, the problem (as almost always) is who he prefers to attack

Even when they tried that by turning everything into attack on Trump’s affordability crisis, they did it very badly.

This presupposes a desire to attack, though. If you're happy with the status quo, why upset applecarts?

what, and miss the chance to expose his soft underbelly?

Progressives represent a threat to his party's established power base that Maga does not.

This is centrist virtue signaling

Well, he took the question and pivoted to attack... members of the DSA who are currently actively working with Democrats nationwide to be elected or to get Democrats elected to stop Trump. Brilliant work from the one guy who seems to be worse than Chuck Schumer as a leader and messenger.

He’s almost there, in that he did pivot to an attack, but that attack just happened to be on the left flank of his coalition.

…OR IS IT‽

He's such a weird guy to be in charge because he doesn't believe in anything but he also has zero political instincts. He'll do whatever it takes to get it done but he also has no idea what it takes. Truly one of the worst in the game

Are you questioning the PR genius that came up with “Captain Chaos” and “low floor stucco ceiling”?

Sigh. Yet again, top Dems are absolutely committed to continuing the current fascist admin.

Right. Personally I have a problem with the substance of the answer but that is the second-biggest problem. The biggest is that this is not the answer given by a wartime consigliere

He's like if a corporate training video became a congressman

His instincts are atrociously bad. The correct answer is “do you ask Republicans if rapists and domestic abusers and crooks belong in the Republican Party?” Always be attacking.

When you have risen to leadership by only fighting the left.....

It is clear that he doesn’t actually believe anything.

It is if you'd rather lose than widen the tent to the left I guess

If he thinks gop attacks can be preempted, he’s an idiot. At best, Dems can make them tell different lies.

This exactly. He's so afraid of touching third rails that he's letting the GOP essentially dictate certain issues to be third rails under threat of protection racket. Often positions that a majority of the voting public actually likes or which are near-zero salience on voting decision-making.

Hell he could have just said "It's the right of all Americans to choose who represents them and I will work with whoever the American People chose, unlike the Republicans who are already working to lay the groundwork to challenge or ignore the results of this November's election."

It's harder when you agree with the attack

Hey let's not be hasty. What you're proposing sounds an awful lot like criticizing the president and that wouldn't be polite.

I truly want to believe that democrats hate republicans more than demsocs and for most of the party that’s clearly true but there are a handful of glaring and powerful exceptions

He did pivot to an attack, it's just that his number one enemy is not Trump

NY, and California Dems are often a complacent scourge on the party and country.

His own constituency seems to like him as-is, so this is what we're stuck with, apparently.

Lots of stones being thrown at small states when the primary calendar was being set from CA and NY and… my god they both need to get their own damn houses in order.

WE ARE TRYING MICAH

NY Dems are so disorganised and ineffectual they cost Biden the House in 2022 - they couldn't beat Santos for God's sake! archive.is/o8ALK

kick em out of national leadership until they get their shit together, aoc will understand the need tbh california could probably use a similar corrective

“drain the swamp” in 2016: hateful rhetoric. guy sucks. loser shit. pure jealousy and half-cocked conspiracy theory trash “drain the swamp“ in 2026: …alright listen,

we gotta do something about this shit because Jeffries on the news regularly makes me want to pull my hair out piece by piece

The Dem party is demographically and geographically crazy diverse. It’s hard having a singular figurehead!

they dont want reform they want the status quo they just refuse to realise its gone and cant come back

American politics needs the Leader of the Opposition so badly

also easily fixable should they want to should they want to

The root of the issue is Democrats select congressional leadership based on fundraising rather than ability. Schumer and Jeffries are not leaders, they are the interface between the party and its financial backers. When you understand this of them everything else falls into place.

Nancy was the absolute queen of passing shit AND was complete garbage as the "face of the party"

Absolutely true! But the parties have known for decades that being a public spokesperson is a crucial part of the job. There is no excuse for them choosing leaders who are bad at it.

ture but otoh think "doesnt swipe at members of his own coalition" is a reasonable ask

`the NY Dem party needs to be taken to the vet and put down

I used to think that he was just trying to being a good Palantir shill, but tbh I dont think his performances in their interest (like thus) are anything other than doofy and offputting. What an odd person to want to be, man.

"What I can say is that I'm hqppy to repeat the GOP framing of every issue with my answer and use this framing to attack anyone to the left while saying 'nuh-uh' if anyone accuses me of supporting these policies"

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his donor base demands his not understanding it

“I’m not a democratic socialist but we’re a big tent. We don’t demand perfect allegiance” idk

He's just so clumsy and bad at this

It is for him. They’re so afraid of blowing it that they won’t do anything to go on the offensive. Our camp is led by a bunch of George McClellan(s).