Absolutely!

It rubs me the wrong way, too. But Schumer (and others like him) isn’t the party. The party is the coalition of people who came together to elect Mamdani, which includes the DNC.

I agree, but I also think some progressives conflate “having a voice” with having everyone agree to do what they want. Besides, I live in a city that just elected a progressive as mayor, just like NYC. It’s hard to argue that progressives don’t have a voice when so many are in important positions.

I totally agree, and I would have liked to see more support from elected leaders. But it’s important to recognize that Jeffries congratulated Mamdani on his primary win, and the official DNC organization supported Mamdani after his primary victory. Mamdani is in the tent.

I think any framing that reduces this to an A/B binary is misleading. We do need better vocabulary to discuss this, but something that moves us away from the human tendency to oversimplify complicated issues.

My impression has been that there is a significant slice of the progressives that will only come into the tent if the centrists leave. A willingness to share the tent is necessary to enter; purity tests and coalitions are incompatible.

Totally this. Democratic identity politics is about recognizing and listening to people of different identities. Republican identity politics is about classifying people into identities that are good and identities that are bad.

Yes, the next post in my feed was an interview with one of the Democratic representatives explaining they were given 23,000 emails just a few days ago. They’re still going thought then and there are more to be released shortly.

I suspect your comment here is meant as a counter example. It does provide a good reference point, though - for the first 3, 5, 10 years that students used laptops no research found any positive academic effect. I say this as someone who ran multi-million dollar grants to get laptops in classrooms.

And the vast majority of Dems still are. The eight Dems that negotiated on the CR are fewer than 4% of the Democrats in the two houses of Congress; over 95% continue to oppose it.

King isn’t a Democrat.

Tell that to the 40+ million people going hungry without SNAP, the millions of federal workers going broke, and the thousands of stranded travelers. Hurting all those people clearly doesn’t bother the Rs, and it doesn’t help the people on the ACA. It’s time to move to the next fight.

This doesn’t mean that outrage isn’t justified, or that our feelings are to be dismissed. What it does mean, however, is that we shouldn’t trust our interpretations of a situation in the heat of outrage. Outrage can feel empowering because it erases our doubts and stops us from thinking. 2/2

Again, with what leverage? The Republicans don’t care if the government reopens. Mike Johnson has used the shutdown to suspend Congress, and he’s happy to do it. I supported the shutdown, but the risk was always that the Rs wouldn’t care about the impacts. They’ve shown they don’t.

There never was a guarantee they would get what they asked for. I 100% supported the shutdown, but the stark fact is that the shutdown is harming tens of millions of people, and the Rs have demonstrated clearly they don’t care. They prefer Congress remains closed and let DJT operate as a king.

Additional theory: they know the Democrats actually care about the suffering, and they want the suffering of the shutdown to be so much worse than the suffering caused by the loss of the ACA subsidies that it makes the cost of the fight greater than what a Democratic victory would prevent.

Are you criticizing Ron for fighting *against* a nationwide abortion ban?

Particularly when these same people regularly trot out the canard “We’re actually not a democracy, we’re a republic.” The whole point of a constitutional republic is to have codified principles that are not subject to shifts in popular opinion.

I worked with school librarians for decades, and they are the most radical (in a good way) people ever!