No, ‘playing dead’ is the last thing Democrats should be doing | Megan Romer
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Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistakeIn a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Democratic super-consultant James Carville boldly called for “the most radical thing [Democrats] can do” – nothing at all. Standing over the putrefying carcass of three-day-old road kill, thinking we don’t notice the fur sticking to the bumper of his F-150, this man is pointing at the rotting heap and screaming “Don’t move!”His argument is simple and incredibly dangerous: give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves and they will do it. Their inability to govern, he argues, is self-evident and when they shut down enough social programs, people will notice and Democrats can swoop in and save the day.Megan Romer is the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/democrats-trump-socialism
Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistakeIn a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Democratic super-consultant James Carville boldly called for “the most radical thing [Democrats] can do” – nothing at all. Standing over the putrefying carcass of three-day-old road kill, thinking we don’t notice the fur sticking to the bumper of his F-150, this man is pointing at the rotting heap and screaming “Don’t move!”His argument is simple and incredibly dangerous: give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves and they will do it. Their inability to govern, he argues, is self-evident and when they shut down enough social programs, people will notice and Democrats can swoop in and save the day.Megan Romer is the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/democrats-trump-socialism