silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoWhat Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11
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minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·16 hours agoWhat I’ve learned from the last two presidential elections is that right now, the incumbent party loses if people are unhappy with the current state of the country. A clever, but evil opposition party would try to make things worse.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·15 hours agoThis is why “doing what republiQans do” isn’t a useful tactic for Democrats. Never has been, though the party leaders have never learned it.
What I’ve learned from the last two presidential elections is that right now, the incumbent party loses if people are unhappy with the current state of the country. A clever, but evil opposition party would try to make things worse.
This is why “doing what republiQans do” isn’t a useful tactic for Democrats. Never has been, though the party leaders have never learned it.