@Vakarian74 what you and many on this board don't see is how out of touch the dem party is with reality. That's not to say a massive amount of the critiques of Trump and his policies aren't 100% accurate and there isn't some really scary stuff happening. Nothing was accomplished in the last 4 years and a lot got worse. The message of the Dem party right now is TRUMP BAD. That is 90% of the platform. And it isn't wrong. Trump is bad. But the dems aren't doing a thing a about it and screwing up on things like the border. Middle class families who's cost are up 30%.....part of that is Trumps fault but he is 4 years removed and people get paid weekly so memories get short.....don't care about the funding of private institutions their kids have less than a fraction of a percent chance of getting into with $50B in the bank. They don't care enough to donate $5 of their own money if it burned to the ground. They don't care about one guy who came here illegally initially with past gang connections when their local services are strained.... they aren't listening to a party or media that admits they don't have an accurate number for how many crossed, how many died trying, or the whereabouts of 1000s of children that now cares so deeply about one....don't expect an outpouring of empathy for a single person in Maryland when their schools teacher/student ratio changed, housing in their city went up, and wages in their area depressed. Don't expect the masses to understand the legality of a case when this is a board that is connected by the fact we went to a university and only one of us could really speak to the law with any accuracy.....everyone can see a party that acts like this is the end of the world but did nothing for entire term. They don't care if some of DOGE's "findings" are incorrect because some are correct and the totals of those are more then they would make in 1000 lifetimes if you just take 5% of them. Everyone has known for decades about wasteful spending.....doing "something" (didn't say the right thing or method) about it looks better than doing nothing but complaining. The masses aren't going to understand how tarriffs work in two months.....they aren't all going to understand how reckless it is to tariff Canada 25% at 9:00am and 0 at 5:00 pm. The message of "if tariffs are bad why does everyone do it to us" is better to families in swing states that lost manufacturing jobs than "you're blue collar you don't even understand what's happening". The dems entire focus is take down Trump not governing.....it's not a winning message and they are going about it horribly....idiotically bad because they are so out of touch with the rank and file middle class American. And that is no way a statement that Trump gives a single solitary shit about said rank or file or can relate to those people in any way.....but he is working on their overtime and tips not getting taxed and the dems are talking about Harvard losing 4% of what they have in the bank...no one feels sorry for Harvard. It's a loser and will be loser in the mid terms and next presidential election.
A Dem should join DOGE the majority of people like the idea....get involved. Find some things for themselves then criticize cuts that are incorrect or taking a hatchet to employees. Talk about changing massive bills....say "I messed up and voted for this and it needs to be cut but it was buried in a 2000 page bill and I'm going putting forth a bill to stop that".
A Dem should work with ICE the majority of people know the dems created the border crisis.....study the database try to create a system of these folks that are actual criminals and get them out, create one of good people that need help staying, say here is a real path to citizenship in a stand alone bill not one that is 80% of funding went to Ukraine or Isreal. Pick someone better than Garcia with a sketchy past and complex legal battle to plaster on the news.
A Dem should look into what money is going to private schools with massive endowments....they took DEI, a great concept, way too far to the point its unpopular....fight for public ed funding stop the rapid inflation of college costs and deflation of it's value. Not buy votes by sticking loan costs on people that didn't go to college.
A dem should get on board with banning red dye number whatever not criticize a stance on a vaccine most everyone took that didn't keep them from getting a virus....they lost a job and health care costs are skyrocketing....don't expect them to appreciate the X% decrease in hospital stays.....admit COVID was fumbled....go after pharma go after 50 ingredient food. RFK is a nut job but he is doing "something" and that resonates more than "you don't believe in science if you don't do what I say"
I'd run to vote for that person and I didn't vote in either of the last two elections.
All the dem party does is complain and throw insults at people. They act better than everyone while doing absolutely nothing. That turned off 20M people from all demos across the entire country....and the response has been to double down. The message of if you aren't with us you are racist, facist, dumb got it's ass kicked by a dumb racist because he talked about not taxing overtime....then did something about it. The dems coined the phrase country over party to justify skipping a primary....when their actions are party over country because they aren't doing anything but going after an opponent instead of governing. You can say the same things over and over and but it hasn't and isn't working. Again the dems just lost to a guy in orange make up with 34 felony convictions. Don't like Trump completely change as in 100% change your message and put forth something of substance because nobody likes a whiner and that's all it is now. .
The dems lost the middle class and middle of the political spectrum of all demos....20M of them.....to Kid Rock and billionaire with radical policies because people identify better with him. Maybe look at the marketing side and actually create an operations side.
