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(6,159 posts) Tue Dec 17, 2024, 09:17 AM Dec 17

The road back to power for Democrats / By Rahm Emanuel [View all]

https://wapo.st/3Bvqfu4 No paywall, but you might have to register your email

.... the Democratic Party has been blind to the rising sea of disillusionment. In today’s America, aspiration and ambition have been supplanted by anger and animosity. Talk about missing the moment.

Meanwhile, our language and priorities have reinforced the “aloof elite” stereotype. With inflation stinging, school absenteeism skyrocketing and students’ academic scores plummeting, Democrats consumed themselves in debates over pronouns, bathroom access and renaming schools and adopted terms such as “care economy” and “Latinx” to win over voters. It was a hermetically sealed conversation with ourselves, and we appeared much as we sounded: distant and detached.

(Maybe a prototype for the new "what's next" forum.)

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The road back to power for Democrats / By Rahm Emanuel [View all] reACTIONary Dec 17 OP

I don't have any confidence in Rahm.... FarPoint Dec 17 #1

Rahm Emanuel displacedvermoter Dec 17 #2

I understand people's resistance to Emanuel, but he is right about voters' anger. Lonestarblue Dec 17 #3

We need to have a way to do more saturation with the message, which is one of the reasons we have the image. lees1975 Dec 17 #13

Not muttering about Carville or Emanuel displacedvermoter Dec 17 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Dec 17 #15

Voters' anger about women's rights? Equality for people of color? Blue_Tires Dec 18 #21

People should always trust advice from Rahm Emanuel Bleacher Creature Dec 17 #4

Well done! choie Dec 17 #16

Don't see a solution in this snippet. Did he have suggestions? Raven123 Dec 17 #5

Yeah, his suggestion is choie Dec 17 #17

Yes, we were dwelling in a bubble.. Omnipresent Dec 17 #6

Never associated Rahm Emanuel with a "Man the barricades" type of political activism. sop Dec 17 #7

Exactly Blue_Tires Dec 18 #20

Here is Rahm, in 1978, Manning the bracades.... reACTIONary Dec 18 #24

Rahm Emanuel. I haven't heard the term latinx in 4 or 5 years Autumn Dec 17 #8

stick to core vallues . soial security . infastructre. helping our citizens and so forth. add new ones as we go along. AllaN01Bear Dec 17 #9

Internet and cell phones were our path to side gigs, entrepreneurship, equity, health care bucolic_frolic Dec 17 #10

As if I'll pay attention to a piece of shit like Emanuel. (nt) Paladin Dec 17 #11

Rahm Emanuel. Blech. ms liberty Dec 17 #12

Well, like him or not, lees1975 Dec 18 #18

Seriously, that's the LAST person we need to fucking hear from Blue_Tires Dec 18 #19

To quote a previous response.. reACTIONary Dec 18 #22

Nothing really. lees1975 Dec 18 #23

Besides being a reptilian scumbag? Blue_Tires Dec 18 #26

I already know Rahm's resume Blue_Tires Dec 18 #25

Rahm Emanuel? CousinIT Dec 18 #27