Dems won’t win the 21st century with 20th-century politics
Tons of respect for Democrats in Congress who have served honorably and bring years of deep experience in legislative arcana to their jobs, and a passion for improving American’s lives. I still want the Democrats’ gerontocracy to go home. You’re living in the past. Make room for younger leaders with 21st-century political and media skills.
Former RNC chair Michael Steele says it better than I could. *
Michael Steele: They think we’re playing the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill kinda kumbaya moment. ‘Yeah, we skirmish here and there, but in the end we’re gonna have a little toast with some bourbon or some good whiskey and call it even.’ No, that’s not what this is….
I very much respect Hakeem Jeffries, very much excited about his leadership, but you do not hand over the gavel and say we’re putting down our swords and picking up our bipartisan plowshares? They’re gonna shove those plowshares up your behind!
The GOP has spent a generation plotting for this moment, Steele continues, trying to upend the structures put in place to try to govern. They’re not interested. Policy isn’t the goal, the narrative is.
Republicans don’t want to govern. They want to rule.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Steele says of current Democratic leadership, “a political operation that is oxymoronic … they’re not an operation and they’re not political.”
Stop playing by rules that the other side has blown up.
Kristy Greenberg: I hear people say, ‘Well, that’s against the norms.’ But there are no norms. [Trumpublicans] are going to shatter the norms.
Nicolle Wallace (referencing The Sixth Sense): The norms are dead. And you’ve got one party that’s proud of it … but you’ve got the other party that still doesn’t know it.
* FYI, Bluesky vids still won’t play inside WordPress. Otherwise, I try to avoid X posts.