Libtards are going to libtard. Let them implode. I called the destruction of the democrat party a couple years ago. It’s happening right before our eyes.
more trouble in Paradise, Bernie bots in crisis
Second top official resigns from Bernie Sanders group
The tumult at Our Revolution continued raging with the resignation of another founding board member late Wednesday.
The decision by Catalina Velasquez, an undocumented immigrant and transgender activist who was co-vice chair of the Bernie Sanders-inspired organization, came during a week of reverberations in the wake of a POLITICO report detailing widespread problems within the group.
“For the past month, we have been fighting divisive narratives targeting immigrants and pinning us against other oppressed peoples,” wrote Velasquez in a letter she posted on Twitter.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/24/our-revolution-bernie-sanders-staff-changes-607330
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DEMS IN DISARRAY
Daunted Democrats seek path forward amid high court futility and insurgent win in New York
A surge of liberal activism is encouraging and alarming Democratic officials, but there is a deeper divide over how far to go in confronting Trump and attempting to thwart his agenda.
Dick Durbin (D-IL): “The Trump presidency has changed the dynamics in our party.”
WASHINGTON — The pitched battle looming over the Supreme Court, along with a jolt to the Democratic leadership at the ballot box Tuesday, is threatening to shatter the fragile architecture of the Democratic Party, as an activist rebellion on the left and a lurch to the right in Washington propels the party toward a moment of conflict and forced reinvention.
For Democrats, the transformation could prove as consequential as President Donald Trump’s consolidation of power in his own party and the conservative movement’s tightening grip on the federal government.
“The Trump presidency has changed the dynamics in our party,” said Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, acknowledging that he could not recall a similar grass-roots uprising since he was elected to Congress in 1982.
The party’s traditional leaders absorbed one blow after another in the past week. Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., a 20-year incumbent and potential future House speaker, was unseated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, a political newcomer; Congress made clear it cannot pass even a limited immigration measure for the children of immigrants in the country illegally; and the Supreme Court handed down rulings that undermined the labor unions that are a backbone of the Democratic Party, while also limiting abortion-rights advocacy and upholding Trump’s travel ban.
And then Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, effectively handing Trump the opportunity to cement a conservative majority on the bench.
Trump’s presidency has ignited much of the liberal upheaval, driving many left-of-center voters on to a kind of ideological war footing. That has translated into a surge in outsider candidates in the midterms who are pressuring Democratic leaders to support an ambitious liberal platform that includes single-payer health care, free college tuition and the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
But this insurgency, which is encouraging and alarming Democratic officials, is not merely aimed at pushing the party further left ideologically. There is a deeper divide over how far to go in confronting Trump and attempting to thwart his agenda.
At a strategy session last week, Senate Democrats settled on a careful strategy for the coming Supreme Court confirmation battle. They would drop their demands that Republicans not appoint a replacement for Kennedy until after the midterm elections, senators decided, and instead would highlight the threat to abortion rights and health care to try to mobilize opposition to Trump’s appointment.
“I’m sure many of them believe we have the power to stop this,” Durbin said. “But the grim reality is that we have some power but not the power to stop this.”
What worries some Democratic elders is that activists will harbor unrealistic expectations of what sort of policies newly elected progressive lawmakers can push through in a still-divided capital.
“They say to new members, ‘You won because of us,’ ” said John Lawrence, former chief of staff to Pelosi and the author of a new book on the Watergate babies. “Actually no, typically you win because you were able to win moderate voters disgusted with incumbents.”
There is also a group of younger Democrats uneasy about the party drifting too far left. Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., said he understood that Democratic voters were “furious and scared at the same time,” but he also said he wished his party had a moderating influence to counter Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the democratic socialist who has been at the front end of the party’s turn left. “Bernie is fighting for his principles on what direction the party should go,” he said, “but we don’t really have anybody doing it on behalf of moderates and other Democrats. It has become a one-sided conversation.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation...court-futility-and-insurgent-win-in-new-york/
