there is NO common ground with fascism. nor with a non-security checked multi billionaire and his tec squadron being given open access to 7 billion dollars federal treasury payment system. this data breach of personal and business security is illegal. call your State DA, your Senators and Congressperson ASAP. those payments are Not busk’s to steal.
Wanted to share this piece with you—it’s about how the Democratic Party can’t afford to sit on the sidelines for the next four years and why they need to take control of the narrative now. It lays out a strategy for a Democratic shadow government and how it could be the key to winning back Congress in 2026 and the White House in 2028.
Would love to hear your thoughts when you have a minute.
I think the level of general disgust is rising as expected. We actually don't need our leaders to tell us how bad things are. We must be ready to strike when it's time. And I mean strike.
I'll let you in on a secret. Absolutely no one working full time and living in poverty believed a single word Kamala Harris said. They knew if she gave $25,000 to homebuyers they would figure out how not to include poor people. All these kinds of things go to people with good credit meaning most people with college degrees and government jobs qualify and poor people don't.
None of her promises makes poverty wage workers take her anymore seriously than Barack Obama and Joe Biden when they promised to raise the minimum wage. Then with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer they both said F U minimum wage workers... you know we don't give a s***,
The only thing anti poor pro war everywhere forever Chuck Schumer could do to win low income voters is resign.
By putting back in leadership the man who said its OK if blue collar workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Wisconsin vote Republican or Don't vote because his policies will win so many Republicans to vote for democrats it doesn't matter if they lose blue collar workers votes.
By making Schumer the head again they say....we don't care.
'Plus, quite a few Democrats are fearful that they are too associated with advancing the interests of unpopular minorities. Right now, that’s largely transgender people and immigrants. In other election cycles, that means gays and lesbians, or Black people, or women, or someone else. Yes, the party overall wants to see inclusiveness and progress, but many of its more moderate members worry that too much visible progress along these lines scares centrist white voters off. Hence concerns about “identity politics” in many cycles.'
The polling data I have seen informing the folks complaining about an excessive focus on IDpol seems to show that more demos than only "centrist white voters" were unhappy about uncontrolled immigration. I live in a deep blue city and IIRC we saw the biggest pro-Trump swings in working class majority-minority neighborhoods. Ritchie Torres also noted the big swing towards Trump in his working class, minority-heavy Bronx district.
I agree with a lot of what you write here, but I think it's not entirely honest to focus only on Harris' 2024 campaign when she provided so much fodder for attack ads in her 2019 campaign. Yes, her 2024 campaign was entirely reasonable and focused on the right things. But Trump's ads effectively painted her as an extreme leftist thanks to things she herself said in 2019. She may not have been running on those issues any longer, but without addressing the fact that she once did probably aided those attacks from Trump.
Seth, I say this with care, but this was the most unhinged post you have put up so far. Really Elon Musk is a Nazi, come on. I expect more from you. Now while you were enjoying a taxpayer funded trip on a Emerants Airline 380 to some quasi academic conference in Dubai, a lot of Americans are just finding out that USAID is flushing billions of dollars down some NGO hole in the ground, Yes the transition team wanted access to stop the flow. Likewise, the prior administration was filling government with unqualified token representatives of every pervert group you can think of and some even you couldn’t. So that is being addressed.
Really Seth, the administration is just trying to get our government back to something approaching normal.
So what’s the strategic adjustment then, assuming this is right? Going back in on “defense of democracy” narratives and start obstructing where they can! Curious what you think given media/time/attention constraints.
there is NO common ground with fascism. nor with a non-security checked multi billionaire and his tec squadron being given open access to 7 billion dollars federal treasury payment system. this data breach of personal and business security is illegal. call your State DA, your Senators and Congressperson ASAP. those payments are Not busk’s to steal.
*trillion
yeah, sometimes oopsie happens thx for correcting.
Seth, please focus on the Trump crisis and what we all can do.
Even elected Democrats are challenged to keep up with the deliberate blitz of Maga Musk chaos and rolling coup.
Dems need to deal with today. That may be what gathers them votes in 3026.
Thoughtful piece. I think a lot of voters were definitely upset with Biden and the Dems and rather than vote for Trump, they just stayed home.
Wanted to share this piece with you—it’s about how the Democratic Party can’t afford to sit on the sidelines for the next four years and why they need to take control of the narrative now. It lays out a strategy for a Democratic shadow government and how it could be the key to winning back Congress in 2026 and the White House in 2028.
Would love to hear your thoughts when you have a minute.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonegenberg/p/democrats-need-a-shadow-government?r=3nm35j&utm_medium=ios
AOC, Raskin, Pritzker...
What about Crockett (on air), Whitehouse, Kaine, Merkley (at Senate podium)?
Good title.
I think the level of general disgust is rising as expected. We actually don't need our leaders to tell us how bad things are. We must be ready to strike when it's time. And I mean strike.
2026. Fat finger syndrome strikes again 😵💫
It's not your fingers, the keys are too small.
I'll let you in on a secret. Absolutely no one working full time and living in poverty believed a single word Kamala Harris said. They knew if she gave $25,000 to homebuyers they would figure out how not to include poor people. All these kinds of things go to people with good credit meaning most people with college degrees and government jobs qualify and poor people don't.
None of her promises makes poverty wage workers take her anymore seriously than Barack Obama and Joe Biden when they promised to raise the minimum wage. Then with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer they both said F U minimum wage workers... you know we don't give a s***,
The only thing anti poor pro war everywhere forever Chuck Schumer could do to win low income voters is resign.
By putting back in leadership the man who said its OK if blue collar workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Wisconsin vote Republican or Don't vote because his policies will win so many Republicans to vote for democrats it doesn't matter if they lose blue collar workers votes.
By making Schumer the head again they say....we don't care.
Dodobbird.pixels.com
This graf strikes me as weird:
'Plus, quite a few Democrats are fearful that they are too associated with advancing the interests of unpopular minorities. Right now, that’s largely transgender people and immigrants. In other election cycles, that means gays and lesbians, or Black people, or women, or someone else. Yes, the party overall wants to see inclusiveness and progress, but many of its more moderate members worry that too much visible progress along these lines scares centrist white voters off. Hence concerns about “identity politics” in many cycles.'
The polling data I have seen informing the folks complaining about an excessive focus on IDpol seems to show that more demos than only "centrist white voters" were unhappy about uncontrolled immigration. I live in a deep blue city and IIRC we saw the biggest pro-Trump swings in working class majority-minority neighborhoods. Ritchie Torres also noted the big swing towards Trump in his working class, minority-heavy Bronx district.
I agree with a lot of what you write here, but I think it's not entirely honest to focus only on Harris' 2024 campaign when she provided so much fodder for attack ads in her 2019 campaign. Yes, her 2024 campaign was entirely reasonable and focused on the right things. But Trump's ads effectively painted her as an extreme leftist thanks to things she herself said in 2019. She may not have been running on those issues any longer, but without addressing the fact that she once did probably aided those attacks from Trump.
Seth, I say this with care, but this was the most unhinged post you have put up so far. Really Elon Musk is a Nazi, come on. I expect more from you. Now while you were enjoying a taxpayer funded trip on a Emerants Airline 380 to some quasi academic conference in Dubai, a lot of Americans are just finding out that USAID is flushing billions of dollars down some NGO hole in the ground, Yes the transition team wanted access to stop the flow. Likewise, the prior administration was filling government with unqualified token representatives of every pervert group you can think of and some even you couldn’t. So that is being addressed.
Really Seth, the administration is just trying to get our government back to something approaching normal.
Ugh. What a way to lose again. And again. And to be clear by that I mean your words and thoughts.
So what’s the strategic adjustment then, assuming this is right? Going back in on “defense of democracy” narratives and start obstructing where they can! Curious what you think given media/time/attention constraints.
Will they, indeed. Asking the right questions.
What are the Democrats doing NOW!
Ugh. UNSUBSCRIBE.