There Is Going to Be a War Within the Party. We Are Going to Lean Into It. - Politico
Maybe you’ve heard the warning: The country is beset by a menace. A fringe conservative minority is holding Congress hostage, extracting radical policy concessions over the will of the majority. And it’s leading the nation to fiscal, environmental and moral ruin.
Maybe you haven’t heard this part: These dangerous conservatives are Democrats.
“I am talking about the radical conservatives in the Democratic Party,” said Saikat Chakrabarti. “That’s who we need to counter. It’s the same across any number of issues—pay-as-you-go, free college, “Medicare for all.” These are all enormously popular in the party, but they don’t pass because of the radical conservatives who are holding the party hostage.”
Not long ago, this would have been an outlier position even among American liberals. Today, it’s the organizing principle of a newly empowered segment of the Democratic Party, one with a foothold in the new Congress.
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If that requires knocking out well-known elected officials and replacing them with more radical newcomers, so be it. And if it ends up ripping apart the Democratic Party in the process—well, that might be the idea.
“There is going to be a war within the party. We are going to lean into it,” said Waleed Shahid, the group’s spokesman.
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“Diversity is one of the values of our party,” he said. “We have Muslims in our party, we have Buddhists in our party, we have Baptists in our party, we have everything under the sun in our party. We say you can worship what you want, you can love what you want and you can be what you want. Then how is it that we are going to tell people you can’t think what you want?”
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The insurgency within the Democratic Party is real. The tactics of the insurgency are quite simple; force the political dead wood in the party to take a definite stance on moral issues.
Simply winning elections is not enough. If the dead wood in the party won't do anything then holding a majority really isn't winning. The insurgency are activists, not politicians, and they aren't going to play by the political rules.
The American people are not ready for these radical activists and agitators, and will pretty much reject them come election time. Main stream democrats should be worried and concerned about the destruction of their party.
Instead they just yawn.
The American people weren't ready for the radical TEA Party activists, either. But that didn't stop the TEA Party.
You mean the astroturfers? The teabaggers?
Hilarious!!!!!!
Yes, the teabaggers. The teabagger insurgency, led by radical activists, threatened to primary incumbents and succeeded in several instances. The teabaggers played a significant role in nominating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for the Presidential ticket. Where's Ronald Reagan in the Republican Party now?
The teabagger insurgency showed that radical activists don't play by status quo political rules. They force incumbents to take a definite stance; sitting on the fence won't work. Justice Democrats are using the same play book.
Teabaggers - you don't get it do you?
Hilarious!
Trying to disparage the TEA Party insurgency with some sort of childish homosexual taunt didn't work then and it won't work with the Democratic insurgency now.
Trying to portray AOC as some sort of loony toon will only make the insurgency more resolved. The Berniebots label pissed off a lot of people in the insurgency. Ask Debbie Wasserman-Schultz how that turned out.
Yawn
This is going to be fun to watch.
Dems are already starting to eat their own with little miss can't be wrong leading the charge.
You go girl .... you go!
Republicans already ate their own. The TEA Party insurgency was led by activists, not politicians. And the TEA Party didn't give a damn about protecting incumbents.
Of course, the dead wood in the Democratic Party has an advantage because they are willing to rig the primaries to protect themselves. That means it will be a nasty fight.