My guess is that as a party they turn against the progressive wing even more than they have in the past, and they will try to silence “controversial” topics like support for Palestine, immigration, or trans rights. They will seek out party leadership that is more like Mitt Romney and less like AOC. I am not suggesting that it will “work” on any level, but I just do not see the centrist Dem base deciding that this loss is a problem with what they are doing.
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As much as I love to bask in the schadenfreude of a Trump voter being victimized by a Trump policy, for every 1 person that deserves it, another 9 who don’t get screwed. It doesn’t mean I’m gonna stop laughing at Trumpers when they get their faces eaten tho.
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Not sure about this. Remember “Operation Warp Speed?”
The direction of the dem party will be mostly reactive to what Trump does in the next 18 months. The vibe will be anti-Trump again. It worked in 2018, it’s got a shot again. People are about to remember why they rejected Trump in 2020.
I see the next few years going down 1 of 3 ways:
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Trump and co do basically fuck all nothing and hope to maintain power through pure inertia and natural economic cycles that favor them.
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Trump and co start doing unpopular shit and pay a price from swing voters.
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Trump and co start doing unpopular shit, some of which includes election riggage ensuring they don’t pay the price. This is really the path we need to steer them away from. It HAS to be.
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Yes the only saving grace here is that hopefully this speeds up the massive systemic change that will be needed for whatever form the next opposition party takes. Hope they leave the decision making to the people who were able to recognize the messaging issues before the curb stomping went down. There were many of us! Love Pete but don’t think he’s gonna be the answer for '28.
I’m young and naive enough to not give up but can’t blame anyone for tuning out for a bit. Just try to remember there are so many vulnerable groups right now who are going to need our support now more than ever. Just totally turning our backs on them at this point seems pretty not cool.
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Everyone take a breath and stop by Sesame Street.
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I mean, it could be a conspiracy against progressives, or it could be that progressive stuff just isn’t popular in a country that wants fascism. But it’s probably a conspiracy.
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Yeah Trump is only anti-vax in the sense that he realizes that’s where his voters are and he’s latching on. He doesn’t actually give a fuck about vax policy other than he can tell it’s probably a winning issue for him. If they push the anti-vax policies hard, hopefully some dem pacs can run ads of kids dying of measles next election.
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Yeah but how? They have a trifecta now
So did the dems but there was enough internal resistance to prevent them from really exercising it. The GOP is far from a super majority, they may not even take the house or if they do might not hold it too long, and their moderate members, of which there are a few, might put a halt to some of the project 2025, either out of principal or self preservation. I know I know, SSC stuff, but we aren’t drawing dead to 2 years of mostly GOP deadlock followed by a blue wave in 2026.
what does that even mean? nobody watching her speech wasn’t already voting for her. the election was won/lost on social media shorts. kamala should have been running trump epstein pedophile ads on social media.
why is ned stark still alive?
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Like I said, I am not trying to comment on the electoral or moral value of a tack to the right, I am just saying that I think that is what’s going to happen.
The GOP also isn’t built from the top down to be a hindrance to their own party’s goals like the Dem party is either. They will do whatever they want unopposed, certainly not by their own party.
Not to mention Trump doesn’t need the legislature. He can just do whatever he wants by EO and the SC will rubber stamp it.
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Counterpoint:
John McCain types are dead or ousted by now.
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This is the only thing I’m hanging my hat on. Strongly doubt we take the house but it’s not gonna be a rubber-stamp majority for the GOP either (not to mention there’s only so much the Senate can do if they don’t ditch the filibuster). The really unhinged shit like eliminating income tax in exchange for tariffs/sales tax isn’t gonna see the light of day, Obamacare may be difficult to nuke, etc.
There’s plenty of shitty stuff that can be done at the executive level of course, so things will suck, but maybe it could be worse.
Collins and Murkowski still exist, and I will be rooting for them the way Trumpers rooted for Sinema and Manchin the last 4 years. As the party pushes more extreme it’s also possible others step up to moderate as well.
There’s a decent chance they get stuck in the mire of whatever heinous thing they decide to do first. Like if they go for a nationwide abortion ban, it will be a horrible exhausting thing to enact and totally fire up a blue wave in 2026.
The much smarter thing is to go for a bunch of esoteric, silent evil shit that wont have much debate. Throw the base one piece of red meat in 2026 that’s more fluff than content–something about protecting sports from trans athletes or whatever. If they do that, we’re in trouble.
Ironically, I think it’s worse for us if they resist the urge to rock the boat.
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After last night, I don’t think this is true.
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They’re always hungry. That’s why they’re so fat.