Reid Statement – Hey Chris Coons, This is what a Democrat sounds like
“I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.
“White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.
“I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.
“I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear – fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. I’ve felt their tears and I’ve felt their fear.
“We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.
“If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.
“If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.”
Where do we get a Democrat like that in Delaware? Asking for a friend.
Will Coons and Carper join a filibuster of Dodd/Frank repeal? I know the answer but it makes me sick to say it out loud.
Wait… I thought we were just talking about winning back the white vote? What Harry Reid wrote won’t accomplish that. You guys are giving me whiplash.
There have been no Dems in the Delaware delegation since Joe Biden departed, it’s one of the big reasons we took the beating of the century on Tuesday. The Corporatists who currently hold office here have no connection to the working people of this state and it shows. The Clinton model of the Democratic party needs to be buried and forgotten if we’re to succeed, the path to power does not go thru Wall St. and it’s time we remembered that. Harry is mad, so am I.
“There have been no Dems in the Delaware delegation since Joe Biden departed…:
You mean Biden (D-MBNA?) The senator who was a sponsor of the first bill to repeal consumer bankruptcy protection?
Ok. Joe Biden isn’t good enough either. Got it.
Harry Reid is the poster boy for term limits.
We need to elect more Bryan Townsends and fire Coons. And yeah, even Biden is a little too tied to Wall Street to fit the new paradigm. You can’t blame these guys, this is where the goalposts were set in the neoliberal era, but this country is screaming for the neoliberal era to end and the old guard isn’t going to change their stripes.
Joe Biden has never been good enough. There’s a difference between taking the best available offer and settling. Delawareans are settlers. If you ever thought Joe Biden was a real liberal, I question your judgment. He TALKS like a liberal. He doesn’t vote like one. He’s pro-cop, always has been, and he knows that the banks butter his bread.
In case you missed it, Pandora, he has been bribed by the banks overpaying him for his property whenever he trades up. He didn’t get rich on his paycheck. He’s crooked, Pandora. Again, sorry you missed that.
Thank you, Pete, for some common sense. We should be out delegitimatizing this president-elect. Instead we’re sitting around tut-tutting the fact that a porn-addicted nation is ogling the FLOTUS-elect’s fake breasts.
I didn’t miss it. Nor did I miss people on this blog calling Hillary a liar, corportist, shill, etc.. Trump wasn’t alone in depressing the vote.
My point is… given the standards no one ever seems good enough. There is no perfect candidate. Why we keep insisting on one – while throwing out everyone for one thing or another – escapes me.
You ignored that, too. Telling us all to shut up was supposed to win the election. You still refuse to understand that those are widely held opinions, and changing the minds of people who were going to vote for her anyway wasn’t a winning strategy. Jesus, you STILL don’t understand it.
It’s not about finding the perfect candidate. It’s about finding a candidate who actually pursues policies that people perceive as helping them. They do not believe trade helps them, and it’s hard to argue they’re wrong. Again, as we just learned the hard way.
White-collar professionals do better in a pro-trade world. Unskilled workers do not. Remember when Trump said he loved the poorly educated? They heard that a whole lot differently than we did.
BTW, what we were doing is WARNING you that she was a corporate shill, etc. And she IS a liar. But saying so OFFENDED you, so we were shamed rather than heeded. A prophet is without honor in his own country, as a possibly fictional guy once said.
You are the sort of person they’re talking about when they say that liberals created Trump. You’re the sort person they wanted to get even with. You wanted to shame them instead of persuade them. Congratulations on that.
You are unhinged. Again.
And you are smug. As always.
You always say I’m “unhinged” when you’ve got no response. It’s weak. But oh dear, that might sound sexist because you’re a woman. Rest assured it’s because your response to this has been to feel sorry about it.
I have the same response to the men who want to just sit back and accept this instead of getting involved in the inevitable impeachment that’s coming.
That move will come not from Democrats, who don’t have the votes, but from Republicans, who do. Who do you think Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan want in the White House, Trump or Pence?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/11/prediction-professor-who-called-trumps-big-win-also-made-another-forecast-trump-will-be-impeached/?postshare=3851478887290629&tid=ss_mail
Why you insist I’m accepting this and sitting back escapes me. Why you endlessly pretend that I call you sexist escapes me. You keep making stuff up that I’ve never said.
I get that you’re upset. Everyone here is upset.
Of course Rs want Pence. I’ve said that many, many times. I’ve pointed out again and again Pence’s record. Did you miss those comments? I knew all this.
Coons called Trump a Cheeto faced scam artist. What else do you want?
Get someone to primary Tom Carper from the left next year and stop all the damn whining!!!!!