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For those uncertain, it means that suddenly Johnson isn't so sure he has the votes to pass his agenda, and now the Republican party will meet behind closed doors to negotiate or intimidate members try to bring the "rogue votes" to heel.
I predict more and more votes in both the House and Senate are going to go this way as the rats begin to flee the MAGA sinking ship. As ashamed as Democrats should be of their performance and platform last election, Trump and Congress (and DOGE) have already done some deeply unpopular things. And I think threatening social security might be the straw (or in this case, the thermonuclear device) that breaks the camel's back.
The swing voters and non-voters, surprise surprise, it seems voted in ignorance of MAGA's very clear plans to destroy as much of America's institutions as possible. Institutions relied upon disproportionately by the Republican base and the ignorant swing voters. In my humble opinion, main stream media and social media needs a lot of the blame here for sane-washing last election cycle.
Now we get to see if the DNC leadership sees this as a natural pendulum swing and sits back and continues to learn nothing, or if the growing discontent in the party will continue to gain steam and the leadership continues to get pressure to change.
Hopefully the progressive element in the party continues their momentum. Getting the DNC chair and Schumer's recent blowback are glimmers of hope.
Much as I would love a true progressive party, in the current system I think we have to settle for a democratic party acting as a coalition of anti-Republican/MAGA factions until we can fix our fptp voting system.
This has been said every 4 years since Reagan was elected.
A progressive party that is not able to be controlled by the rich DNC leaders is the only way to kill the Duopoly.
The DNC has no strategy besides playing possum and hoping it'll get better eventually, so that they can continue servicing their corporate donors and telling the rest of us to pound sand.
100% agreed on this in the current state. But the new DNC chair is part of a more progressive and assertive variety of Democrats (DFL) from my home state in MN. Similar factions have been forming a growing coalition in the DNC and got him elected, and have started the process to unseat the existing ragdoll leadership.
I'm not saying we're converting the DNC to a party of Democratic Socialists, but the progressive factions are working together (finally) and capitalizing on the DNC's failings.
We can only hope they're successful.
also call it Johnson Shutdown, that is what he clearly is doing when he stopped all procedures for a week in the house. Which I must say is a crucial part of the legislative branch and he efficiently shutdown the government for a week. Anytime this happens again which it will, due to the senate tariff bill heading to the house and if it is brought to the floor by a measure to discharge from committee and passes, he'll clearly do it again. So let give it a name to blame Mike Johnson for shutting down the government and call it Johnson Shutdown.
Yeah. It's the Dems' fault. They should have run a senile old fat white serial rapist felon with a written plan to destroy the country; they they would have had a 50-50 chance, right? Foolish Dems!
So I don't need to read the rest of your piece. And I'm sorry you wrote all that, but we don't stay for the tenor if he can't even clear his throat.
You think they did a good job of building a platform and communicating a message? Energizing their base? Pushing back against the GOP's instanity rather than normalizing it? They didn't even have a competitive candidate until the 11th hour for fucks sake.
I actually liked Kamala. And I thought Joe did a good job of appointing and trusting competent people in general during his tenure and letting things normalize. But really, they ran a piss poor election and shouldn't have let Biden ever claim candidacy for re-election.