Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.
“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”
Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.
He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”
At least we know who is keeping the dnc out of touch
For an idea of how serious these people are, this guy has @marvel in his Twitter bio
The Dems are going to lose every single presidential election for however much longer they can exist for
You could argue that a pandemic which killed millions while Trump talked about drinking bleach was their Truss tanks the economy in a day moment. 2020 was an abboration that got Biden over the line. I’d argue the yanks are one election cycle ahead on this trajectory compare to us Brits, rather than one election cycle behind.
Forgive me if I am incorrect, but didn’t Biden end the Child Tax Credits as part of his “Everything’s Fine Now” policy?
They didn’t technically ‘end it’, they let it expire, but functionally yes. They let Joe Manchin (remember that boogeyman) ‘air concerns’ and act as the scapegoat for letting it end.
Why did they put an expiration date on it at all? Seems like an unforced error.
I don’t think they wanted to do it to begin with, beyond the positive boost they get from doing it. What social programs have liberals actually started in the last 20 years?
A pitifully half assed government health care plan?
Doing it the way they did means they get to use it as a plank they ‘fulfilled’, they can let it expire and blame Joe Manchin and Conservatives for ‘killing it’, and then they don’t have to keep it around
A conclusion of the Chair’s (false) argument is that appealing to the working class doesn’t win elections, therefore why should they be appeal to in the future
Dems preparing to move ever rightward
