You’ve hit the nail on the head, and I sit and have this and other similar conversations with my brother, and they always boil down to change. And it’s a devil you know kind of argument, but the devil we know (establishment politics) has whittled away at the middle class consistently since it’s explosion in the 1950s. And it’s more than just policy, but down more to things like interpretation of the constitution and separation of powers.
And so we are in for a wild ride, and the smart thing for Democrats to do would be to put up their own candidate who stands to be the antithesis of Trump, and not this amalgamation of populist ideals, but a platform for change across the board. I like AOC for that, but we won’t get that. We will get another establishment Democrat who tries to run on the same policies they just lost on, or whose platform is blanket undoing of Trump policy. The Democrats need to not be an anti-Trump party and instead be an actual progressive party.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, and I sit and have this and other similar conversations with my brother, and they always boil down to change. And it’s a devil you know kind of argument, but the devil we know (establishment politics) has whittled away at the middle class consistently since it’s explosion in the 1950s. And it’s more than just policy, but down more to things like interpretation of the constitution and separation of powers.
And so we are in for a wild ride, and the smart thing for Democrats to do would be to put up their own candidate who stands to be the antithesis of Trump, and not this amalgamation of populist ideals, but a platform for change across the board. I like AOC for that, but we won’t get that. We will get another establishment Democrat who tries to run on the same policies they just lost on, or whose platform is blanket undoing of Trump policy. The Democrats need to not be an anti-Trump party and instead be an actual progressive party.