Dem watch...

[Pinno718]

Are we kicking off a new ear in US politics or will the blue wave slide back into vested interests and simply diluted vested interest?

So there is a bit of in fighting in the Democratic party about who's going to be the Democrat speaker of the house.

The pushback is regarding Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer (who I think, has been an absolute joke).
A petition against HJ to be speaker reached 1m signatures. Jeffries was criticised for not stopping Mike Johnson's early curtailment of the vote to impeach Hegseth which precluded a number of people missing the cut. Also, HJ is a fully paid up member of Palantir and has also received AIPAC monies.

Many newly voted Democrats have been inundated with calls asking (demanding/threatening) that they support Jeffries.
Interns inside the Democrat party said that they were swamped with calls from people who were totally against HJ becoming leader.

 

[briantrumpet]

The pushback is regarding Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer (who I think, has been an absolute joke).

As much as anything it's the appearance they give of treating the progressive Democrats as more of a problem than the Republicans who have been treating them with contempt for decades, ignoring the fact that younger voters are enthused by people like Mamdani, AOC and El Sayed. Maybe it's a simple as the old guard realising that their own time has passed.

 

[C R]

As much as anything it's the appearance they give of treating the progressive Democrats as more of a problem than the Republicans who have been treating them with contempt for decades, ignoring the fact that younger voters are enthused by people like Mamdani, AOC and El Sayed. Maybe it's a simple as the old guard realising that their own time has passed.

Like Starmer courting the fascists instead of the people who had voted for him.