Our midterm march starts with a simple phrase every candidate can blast on every screen and stage: We demand a repeal. A repeal of Mr. Trump’s spending law is the one word that should define the midterms. It is clear, forceful and full-throated. It must be slathered across every poster, every ad, every social media post from now until November 2026. That single word is our core message. Every Democrat can run on it, with outrage directed not at the president or a person but at this disastrous bill. And the reasons are countless, each one a venom-tipped political dagger.
--James Carville
I think Carville's on it. And I think he's doubly right that the civil war among the Democrats that's inevitable (Mamdani's following v. the old establishment, for instance) needs to wait until after the midterms. Job Number One is flipping the U.S. House. Job Number One for North Carolinians is flipping the Senate seat. Thom Tillis could even give us tips for "We demand a repeal." But we can't be fighting a civil war among ourselves until later. Whoever wins the 2028 Democratic Presidential primary will possibly settle the issue.
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The biggest fatal mistakes in BBB are (1) funding an oversized and extrajudicial domestic police force (Homeland Security/ICE) with no limits on
jurisdiction or mission. Rounding up the worst of the worst in a situation of a dropping crime rate and needed immigrant workforce is dishonest and racist.
(2) Federal workforce and funding reduction in vital research and human services. (3) Failure to make the wealthiest pay their fair share of taxation. (4) Overfunding Defense/Dismantling the State Department. There are additional specifics,
but these are the primary errors. Outside the BBB, giving the President
carte blanche on tariffs and aggressive military action. There was a mismatch between Plan 2025 and reality. These mistakes could end the United States.
Certainly James Carville is correct that America must seek a better way.
Whether this is accomplished through a now thoroughly discredited Democratic Party of through a citizens' uprising does not matter.
Oh, please try the citizen's uprising. I'm sure it would work.
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