P O L I T I C S : In The United States In 2025, And Years Thereafter (if any)

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Democrats worry on ‘how disadvantaged they are right now as a brand’ and their descent into the minority against Trump and MAGA​

Rhian Lubin / Fri, March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM EDT
Democrats are “f***** right now,” one strategist warned, as others said the party risks becoming a “permanent minority” against Donald Trump’s MAGA movement - as the party struggles to find its footing in the current political environment.
After Kamala Harris’s devastating defeat against Trump in November, the Democratic Party is struggling and is “deeply fractured, and rudderless,” strategists, elected officials and leaders told Politico in a scathing report.
“I don’t know if Dems realize how f***** they are right now as a brand,” one anonymous party strategist told the outlet.
While the Trump administration steams ahead at a breakneck speed, the Democrats have been distracted by party infighting over their lack of resistance to a short-term spending bill. They have offered little organized resistance to the Trump agenda that is reshaping the federal government.

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Democrats worry on ‘how f***** they are right now as a brand’ and their descent into the minority against Trump and MAGA

While the Trump administration implements its aggressive agenda at a breakneck speed, the Democrats have been distracted by party infighting
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The Democrats stumbled badly in the 2024 presidential race.
In 2020 former vice president and presidential nominee Joe Biden identified himself as a transitional candidate, implying he would only serve a single 4 year term.
Perhaps it was as simple as a mental lapse common to those of Biden's seniority that Biden accepted the Dem's 2024 nomination.

Biden stumbled so badly in debate against Trump that the Dem. nominee tossed the political hot potato of Democrat presidential candidate to his VP, Kamala Harris. There were better Democrats available.

VP KH nice lady perhaps, but never able to shake the aura of a light-weight. The Dems lost.

But it would compound the detriment of Democrat's failures to jeopardize their principles, conservators of U.S. political traditions, including prosperity.

The weak & ill-prepared Kamala Harris lost to a media s a v v y conman and media professional, D.J. Trump.

What should the Dems. do now, and in 2026, and in 2028?

Apparently the U.S. electorate has dysfunctionally short memory. They gambled on Trump (zero experience in government service) in 2016,
dumped Trump for Biden in 2020,
and for reason (misnomer noted) inexplicable went back to Trump in 2024. Had they forgotten ?!

Constitutionally Trump can't run again the next time. BUT !!
Constitutionally Trump couldn't run again the last time.

Where did the Dems. fail in 2024?
On offense? Offering a campaign platform voters would go to the polls to support?
Or defense? Exposing Trump's prolific lies:

"IT’S TIME FOR CROOKED JOE BIDEN, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES—AND I TO DEBATE. WE OWE IT TO OUR COUNTRY. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!" realdonaldtrump​

There are other explanations. But it's likely a decisive segment of the U.S. electorate found Trump's character-assassinating superlatives persuasive. Will the Dems. remain vulnerable to such fiction in the next few political elections?

Mike Kinsley defined "political gaffe" as a politician telling the truth.​

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Lord Acton​

"Just remember, what you're seeing & what you're reading is not what's happening." President Trump​

“Everyday we make good in our motto: 'Promises made, promises kept.' We've kept more promises than we've even made.” U.S. President Trump 19/05/20​
 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 7:01 AM GMT-5, March 30, 2025
The Taliban leader said Sunday there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect.
Hibatullah Akhundzada made the comments in a sermon marking the Islamic holiday of Eid Al-Fitr, in the southern city of Kandahar’s Eidgah Mosque. The 50-minute audio of his message was published on X by the Taliban government’s chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
“There is no need for laws that originate from the West. We will create our own laws,” Akhundzada said, speaking in Pashto, while emphasizing the importance of Islamic laws.

The democratic process may have helped the United States of America rise to global dominance.
Even if so, it is neither required nor appropriate for the United States to inflict democracy on others at gunpoint.
"American people are friends of Liberty everywhere, but custodians only of their own." John Adams
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Demonstrating by example of our own prosperity is sufficient recognition for global leadership by example.

We can squabble over details: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
But as long as Afghanistan is not exporting terrorist mass-murder to the U.S. as it did with UBL's attacks of 09/11/01
we can leave the many and varied Peoples of the world to find their own way.

How that overlays with Trump's aspirations for Greenland, Panama, and Canada we may not yet fully know. But it may be a lesson the U.S. will relearn again.​
 

The filibuster is not dead?​


Sen. Cory Booker holds overnight speech taking aim at the Trump administration​

The Democratic senator from New Jersey showed no signs of slowing down after speaking for more than 12 hours, using animated gestures as he slammed the administration.
“I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis,” Booker said.
"Twelve hours now I'm standing, and I'm still going strong because this president is wrong, and he's violating principles that we hold dear and principles in this document that are so clear and plain," Booker said at around 7 a.m., holding up a copy of the Constitution.
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Sen. Cory Booker holds overnight speech taking aim at the Trump administration

The Democratic senator from New Jersey showed no signs of slowing down after speaking for more than 12 hours, using animated gestures as he slammed the administration.
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