Dem Voters Continue to Regard Fighting Trump’s GOP as a National Emergency
I don’t know why Tom Carper and Chris Coons don’t get it. Where is the urgency? Trump is just another President for Carper to cut deals with on behalf of banks. Coons is just AWOL.
Fortunately Democratic voters have a sense of urgency. They are turning out in droves to oppose Trump’s GOP. Cynics will say that Connor Lamb was a conservative, and that Democrats didn’t really gain much, but that misses the point. It mistakes the movement of the clock’s minute hand for the whirling internal mechanism that moved it.
But one of the ways in which Democrats benefitted from the massive countermobilization that formed immediately after the 2016 election is an unusually high number of people willing to rearrange their lives around the goal of saving their country from an unfit president. In many cases, the possibly corny and self-serving narrative of the “military veteran called to serve their country once again” actually applies. Democrats have more or less unanimously regarded a Trump presidency and a pliant Republican Congress as a national emergency.
Just don’t get how you admonish Carper, but applaude the victory of a carbon cut-out of Carper from 40yrs ago. Young, moderate, military veteran, who spent his first round of morning shows talking about working across the aisle and bipartisanship. Not sure if you know what you want. Maybe I’m missing this grand plan and the minute hands on the faces of clocks.
Indeed Bane doth miss the point, whatever Carper was 40 years ago he is an unrepentant DINO and Corporatist that serves the Wall St. banks today. He’s signed on for rolling back the protections of Dodd Frank with glee, as did the equally contemptible Chris Coons. As for Dems mobilizing to fight Trump and his Republican enablers damn right were energized, but we’re also ready for a changing of the guard at the top.
I get that you don’t get it. Look at the big picture. Lamb wildly over performed. When parties do well in special elections, they usually do well in the midterms. This isn’t an end in itself. There will be a great many Democrats voted in during the mid-terms. Many will be to the left of Lamb.
Lamb won in a district full of Republicans — it was gerrymandered to be so. Carper represents a state full of Democrats.
If you can’t see the difference, I can’t help you.
If Lamb was a delaware candidate y’all would have raked him over the coals. He took almost no actual policy stances, and literally ran and hid from the media the entire campaign.
I mean he literally hid in a barn to avoid the press
Obviously it’s good that he won, but imo, he won despite himself not because of anything he did or said
Again, if you don’t understand the difference between running as a Democrat in a +20 R district vs. running as a Democrat in a +12 D state, you’re at the wrong site.
Nobody is suggesting that we allow Conor Lamb to set the party’s agenda.
It’s a Doug Jones situation, isn’t it? I agree with everyone who’ve said Lamb sucks. If he were a Delaware Senator we’d despise the guy. All of that is true.
But once you get to the ballot box you need to land the blows that are available. You need to make the choice. What’s the alterative?
The fight continues and nobody is arguing it won’t.
I can be both glad Lamb won and hate Lamb’s politics.
As I recall, Carper ran in a red state 40 years ago. I understand why they are different now, but 40 years ago? 40yrs from now, you’ll be singing the same Carper song. The guy tightroped a question about a woman’s right to choose. Carper doesn’t even do that. It’s the John Atkins candidate recruitment policy…. As long as He’s a registered D, We’re happy. It always comes back to bite us. And if you can’t see that, you deserve the Dinos you have today.
The GOP of 40 years ago is way different from the GOP of today…
to echo everyone, If you cant see these super important distinctions, no one can help you.
“I dont get it, the GOP ended slavery and here you all are calling them bigots.. dumb libruls”
Sach-one is way more of a Strom Thurmond Democrat than Lamb is… idk why HE didnt win the primary.
@Bane: You recall incorrectly. Here are the 1982 election results. It was an evenly split state, but it was very different from today — Democrats ruled Sussex County. The Delaware Democratic Party lost all those voters, but not all the Democrats they voted for.
That has zero to do with what I’m talking about Ben. Definately will take him over the alternative, but put down the confetti and the Kool aid. You’re celebrating the selection of a guy you’ll hate tomorrow, all to win a pointless battle today. At least when the Dems made the deal with John Atkins, it gave them the house. He spent the whole morning talking more about bipartisanship than Carper
Those weren’t really Dems in Sussex. Dixiecrats. You know that Alby. Even on paper. Not in reality.
“Look, I was at a lot of polling places yesterday with cars parked outside of them that had president Trump’s bumper sticker on them. So he’s a popular person here,” Lamb told CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “But I think that what happens when you campaign in real life as much as possible is that those divisions go away. Everyone gave me a fair shake and I know that there are people that voted for the president who also voted for me. And, you know, I thank them for hearing me out.”
In other words, thanks for not worrying about my party. I love guns and hate women having choices just like you.
“In other words, thanks for not worrying about my party. I love guns and hate women having choices just like you.”
So you are arguing…what? We should prefer Saccone?
That’s my point, Bane: Sussex County then was a Democratic PARTY stronghold. They helped elect him. He’s a holdover from a more conservative time for the party.
As for celebrating his victory, I’m not. I’m just thankful I don’t have to hear the media tell me about whatever Trump would have tweeted after a victory.
I don’t understand what we’re doing today.
I agree. Bane, stop you whiney-ass “you are no true liberal” trolling and get hooked up with a campaign you admire for fucksake.
Glad I’m not a liberal.
So let’s say you follow baseball. You’re a die-hard Phils fan. Always have been.
The Phillies are 3 games out of first place behind the Braves and the Braves are in Queens playing the second to last place Mets. You hate the Mets. The idea of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry make you physically ill.
Guess what? You’re rooting for the Mets. That’s the deal.
We’re not fucking Mets fans. See what we’re saying?
There are only twos team playing, the Mets and the Braves. I have no idea why this is so difficult.
It is a national emergency to impeach this russian lovin cretin before he destroys our country. Even psychologists etc have put out a “warning” about his mental instability! Trump and Kushners are involved in an international crime syndicate. Can’t wait till 20/20 releases the Story Daniels interview.
This New York Times map of PA 18 on election night shows what to expect from the upcoming blue wave: All those little blue arrows, showing the shift from R in ’16 to D today, are clustered in formerly Republican suburbs.
This is all part of the Great Reshuffling, in which Democrats are gaining white-collar managerial workers and Republicans get the blue-collar workforce. I think the big problem for today’s GOP is how badly it’s turning off the pink-collar voters who might otherwise vote for them.