The two highest-ranking Democratic members of Congress both call New York City home, but even with their personal connection to the city where immigration agents abducted a recent Columbia University graduate for his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have had little to say about Saturday night’s arrest.
Amid mounting calls from House progressives and advocacy groups for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil on Monday evening, Jeffries released a statement that one local rights group derided as “word salad,” starting by accepting the Trump administration’s narrative about the former student who helped organize last year’s Palestinian solidarity encampment.
“Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are not the men for this moment in history,” saidNew Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang. “So obvious and gets more obvious by the day.”
They haven’t been the men for a long time. We can’t keep acting like things are normal. The Dems don’t have any message or platform to combat the GOP, and if we stick with these two, they won’t in 2028. They need actual progressive policies and a clear, simple message. Otherwise the best we’ll get is Biden 2.0 in 2028 who doesn’t undo anything Trump will do because of “norms” or “decorum”, then Trump 2.0 in 2032.
Dems have already decided there will be no progressive in 2028. Nor ever after that. If you are hoping for a progressive better start organizing around a third party.
Third parties are doa.
At this point consider that electoral politics may not be the way forward.
If popular “progressive” Democrats would leave the party it could bring enough momentum. But those figures, like Sanders, appear hell bent on having a final Cheney for the road.
Lesser evilism. Has started to reach its ultimate destination. Fascism vs slightly less fascism.
It would not, due to the game theory problems of first past the post voting: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
I’m not arguing for lesser evilism. I am pointing out a fact that you must contend with if you want to succeed. Third parties are doa. You must think more laterally.
If you stick to FPTP and both parties deteriorate your conditions you will never reach improvement.
Your argument has led to what we see now.
Your argument just as much as mine has lead to what we see now. Third parties have repeatedly failed to surmount the duopoly, and not for a lack of trying. My argument is not a recommitment to the duopoly.
Not enough of the democrats base pay attention for that to be true, unfortunately.
I heard it is best to only vote democrat or personal freedoms may be lost. And only republicans will win. I disagreed.
Surprisingly I was not downvoted to oblivion elsewhere; which in my mind is a huge
better start organizing around a third party
Or considering a run. The 2016 and 2024 cycles were both fertile ground for a new party.
Now might be a better time than ever: Democrats are deeply unpopular and so are Republicans.
If nothing else, one should seriously consider the value of running as an independent.
Yeah, tbh I’m really just weighing my options. I want to help, and I was thinking of volunteering for my county’s democratic party but to your point is my time better spent on a different party.
Relying on the Democratic cast of characters which handed the election to Trump will get us no where.
Jeffries won’t say anything substantive about Khalil’s abduction because doing so would contradict what I assume are his orders from his AIPAC handlers. AIPAC is Jeffries’s largest donor, to the tune of $866,425 (as reported by OpenSecrets).
Increasingly seeing Jefferies and Schumer as aiding and abetting this criminal violence.
More Luigis are needed to fix this kind of problem.
They’re not the men for any moment in history. They’re stuffed shirts.
Anyone expecting the Democrats to save democracy need to get their heads examined.
Vichy Democrats
