Summary
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Tim Walz warns that Trump may soon arrest political opponents and potentially groom one of his sons, likely Donald Jr., as a successor.
“It’s going to get very dark,” Walz told CNN, citing Trump’s defiance of a judge’s order on Venezuelan migrants and calls to impeach a federal judge as evidence of authoritarian tendencies.
He expressed concern that Democratic leaders underestimate Trump’s authoritarianism and public frustration with both parties.
Walz criticized Schumer’s handling of the GOP spending bill and questioned how Democrats will rebuild institutions damaged by Trump.
An issue I see with US politics from the outside is the fact that when a party loses the candidate just disappears from the map and the party that’s supposed to be the opposition to the one in power is now stuck without a leader. The Republicans changed that with Trump as he kept control over the party during Biden’s tenure and that meant that the Republicans that got elected just got in the Democrats’ way whenever Trump said something even if it contradicted their previous position…
The Democrats need to wake the fuck up and not wait until the last minute to choose who will be their next presidential candidate. They need someone in the driver’s seat ASAP and having someone campaigning for the next four years (LIKE TRUMP DID!) would only increase their chances to make people realize how fucked up things are right now!
AOC should start running right now.
Jon Stewart/AOC ticket. He has the name recognition and could make a splash. There just aren’t many people out there who could realistically fill the role.
I think the problem with this is, nobody really wanted Biden or Harris. They were just the best we had. Like, nobody is going to listen to Harris now. But people love Trump, so he doesn’t have that issue.
Edit: The democratic party does not care what their voters want, they need only provide the lesser of two evils to get votes. They believe that so much, that Harris’ entire campaign was to talk about what Trump was going to do rather than what she was going to do. “Look at all these things Trumps gonna do, at least I’m not him!”
Another edit: Indeed, as multiple of you have pointed out, “the best we had” was a poor choice of words. Hell, I think even Walz was a better choice, so it’s not exactly like you need to go looking far for one.
Being the lesser of two evils was just not enough. The Democratic party has been failing to appeal to the working class and alienating groups of what are normally reliable Dem voters by neglecting them.
Worse than rejecting… castigating and ejecting them whenever possible.
The best we had? …or had the most money and bullshit marketing and PR?
The best the party machinery had produced at the time.
Lmao, they literally weren’t the best the democrats had. That kind of thinking is what saddled them with biden and harris.
I agree. Poor choice of words on my part.
They were not the best by any measure.
Yes and no, even with the best candidate ever that’s how US politics work.
Not just when they lose. If you have a fully successful president that does both terms they also then fuck off to obscurity. They aren’t unpopular among their base, they just retire.