A Dem Tea Party?

An article in the NYTimes suggests that Democrats adopt the strategies of the extraordinarily successful Tea Party to resist Trump:

It’s the Tea Party inverted: locally driven advocacy built on inclusion, fairness and respect.

It would be great to see powerful local organizing efforts on the part of Dem voters. But I don’t believe it will happen because “inclusion, fairness and respect” mean that participants will start policing each other’s speech patterns and publishing angry screeds about their comrades’ failure to be fully inclusive.

16 thoughts on “A Dem Tea Party?

  1. They’d be so fair, inclusive, and respectful that they’d summarily banish and shame anyone suspected of being insufficiently fair, inclusive, and respectful.

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      1. “And nobody is ever fully inclusive and intersectional, so you can always find a reason to hound absolutely anybody.”

        It’s because of the above comment that I feel like the Democrats either need to split into two parties — “traditional liberals” and “intersectional nit pickers” — or just give up. Traditional liberals want “liberty and justice for all” without getting hot and bothered about the details. The “intersectional nit pickers” are people who happily tear down traditional liberals for not being detail-oriented enough. It’s easier to fight with other liberals than to confront the racist, sexist, xenophobic tendencies of the gun-toting GOP.

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        1. “Democrats either need to split into two parties..”

          Yes, but your classification is inaccurate imo. It’s the corporatist hillary-wing of the party, who weaponized ‘intersectional’ and other buzzwords to castigate the left-leaning factions of the party as racist and sexist.

          That wing of the party should just die. Or better, join the republicans to make the republican party more civilized.

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          1. No, it’s the younger generation that’s into this crap. And they were never for Hillary. I don’t think they were for Bernie either. Everybody fails to live up to their expectations.

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            1. “No, it’s the younger generation that’s into this crap. ” – I honestly have no idea what would please Democrats these days. What’s funny is I watched people celebrate the demise of the GOP the whole election long, but what I’m left feeling is that it’s the Democrats that have been destroyed as a cohesive party, not the GOP.

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          1. Actually, he would’ve. His party would’ve kept losing state election after state election, but he would’ve won. And that, sadly, is his legacy.

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              1. Elizabeth Warren is pretty good at shouting at people and taking on issues that no one could ever fix, way too long after the fact — like student loan debt.

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              2. DNC’s new anti-trump ‘war room’ filled with hillary operatives. What the fuck do you have to do to lose a job in this town?

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              3. That’s going to be one pathetic war. I hope Huma Abedin and Donna Brazile are leading the charge. They totally haven’t done enough yet.

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