He's already deployed troops to Tennessee.
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Kinder and gentler Margaret Thatcher energy? That's weirdly specific, not to mention being a really low bar.
Every time Hillary speaks she oozes elitism, entitlement, and contempt for anyone who stands in her way. She deflects every criticism as sexual discrimination whether it makes sense or not. She is everything that makes people hate Democrats distilled into a single person. She does, however, come across as slightly less narcissistic than Trump.
Hell, even Kamala was more charismatic than Hillary.
I know the DNC would love to blame their electoral failure on third parties.
Is that what I did? I'm just doing an apples to apples comparison of two strategies.
They aren’t a shitty uninspiring party that cant articulate an authentic compelling vision for the future
No, they aren't. They sure manage to inspire more loyalty than any third party has ever managed though.
I know people like to blame Bernie for 2016,
Not me, but people. Not sure how this is relevant here though. You aren't being genuine with me, you are just ranting.
PARTIES HAVE TO WIN VOTES! And if your solution is to tell everyone, the party is fine we just need these dumbass voters to fall in line
Once again, I have to wonder who the fuck you think you are talking to.
you’ve got bigger problems than arguing with some guy on Lemmy.
Pot, meet kettle.
The inside strategy has given us two trump presidencies and has directly led to the current situation we find ourselves in.
How are you not getting this? The outside strategy was also in play, and it also led us to where we are today. The only difference is that the inside strategy has actually made some progress while the outside strategy has achieved exactly dick.
You don't get to restart the clock on the outside strategy every single election. It's not new. It has a track record, and it's nothing to be proud of. In theory the outside strategy is bad, and on reality it's even worse. Grow up
If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, it’s not clear to me how continuing to support the Dems is going to start working.
So, you think we need a brand new approach and a 3rd party is it? I'm not interested in political strategy from someone who doesn't realize that third parties have run in every election since forever.
Your "new" strategy has its own track record, and it's even worse than the one you want to abandon. At least the inside strategy hasn't helped any Republicans win. You are either ignorant, or a Republican.
I'll come at it from another direction. The executive order is nonsense from a legal perspective for any number of reasons, but that's assuming the Trump administration intends to follow the rule of law. I hope it's pretty obvious by now that we can't make that assumption.
Lets say you are an ideological enemy of Trump that the administration want's to railroad. They use this executive order to prompt the FBI to start digging. The FBI isn't going to push back and say that antifa isn't an organization, and they will never have to prove such a thing in court. They still have to find something to charge you with though, but you are a model citizen with no criminal record, and you have never said anything online that could possibly be twisted to sound like a threat. So, you are safe, except...
Since you have been implicated as a domestic terrorist, the intelligence agencies get roped in. Independent of the FBI, these agencies are the top experts in the entire world at finding your secrets and even at fabricating pretty much any document or other piece of evidence they want. As a terrorist (yeah, they drop the "implicated" part pretty quickly) you are a risk to national security. Suddenly the FBI is getting tips that lead them to whatever they need to put you away for whatever crime is most useful.
This is exactly how fascist governments operate.
Step one is to purge neoliberals from the Democratic party. It needed to be done about ten years ago though, but I guess now is the second best time.
And im sure Trump is under the full impression that "antifa" is a group/organization of sorts, whether you or I believe it or not. So he's basically canceling a non-existent group?
When this order gets interpreted and implemented, will they be reading Trump's mind (ugh, sick thought) or will they be reading the order?
Trump is like King Tommen, happily banging the seal of the King on whatever mommy puts in front of him. Whether or not he has the faintest idea of what he is signing is entirely irrelevant. The people who wrote the order know what they want it to mean, and they won't be interpreting it any other way. What Trump thinks is far less relevant than what Stephen Miller thinks.
I just watched part of the Harris interview with Maddow, and she kept calling Trump a "communist dictator", so apparently Trump is the new left and Democrats need to come at him from the right to defeat the commies.
It's funny though, none of them seem to have a plan for how to prevent their new party from being similarly overrun by greed. If they somehow managed to overcome every organizational challenge to get a massive voter migration away from Democrats and to Whatevercrats, they would have to somehow vet the intentions of hundreds or thousands of candidates who never held office before. These are largely the folks who promoted Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore long after their grifts became obvious.
Whatever he didn't got fucked by Clinton.