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Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (46 children)

Time for the neoliberal world order to end. Want Republicans to actually be scared of Democrats? Fill the party with socialists.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 hours ago (30 children)

This is correct. Ultimately, the Democratic Party will only be changed through primaries. Not town halls or performative third party voting, but filling the party up with people who think differently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No, it changes by having a chair that cares more about beating Republicans than beating progressives...

And we have that now

The fight over the party was over more than a month ago when the Chair election happened.

Neoliberals lost, the party of today is not the same party as 2 months ago, the chair is basically a dictatorship with all the power and zero accountability

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Guess we'll see. The only thing I've seen Dems (as a party) do in the past month is roll over and show their belly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

You're talking about elected politicians.

That is not the DNC.

Party leadership isn't the DNC.

For the past 30 years they've been intertwined, because we kept getting neoliberal chairs and the party leaders are neoliberals. And they worked together to prevent progressives from gaining ground.

Ken Martin wasn't born yesterday, you can look at Minnesota and what they did under his leadership as state chair, and the type of politicians who got to office with his help.

He's not perfect, but he won't stand in the way of progress, and that's all we need to get a non-neoliberal to the general in 2028.

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