I have to say that the future of liberalism looks pretty bleak. The Republicans are split between populists and conservatives so it is clearly not them. The Democrats are controlled by leftists, so clearly not them either. So what is to be done? Populist fusion is my thing. It is not hard to find elements of MAGA who agree with Democrats on important parts of economic policy. J D Vance is one of them, so bashing him is counter productive, at least from my perspective. I also should remind you that Kamala Harris, as sitting VP and presidential candidate called Trump a fascist which is far more inflammatory than anything Vance said. The left side of populist fusion would have to separate from The Groups which you seem to want for the Democrats anyway. So what is important to the left populists. Support for the working class or identarian politics. Pick one.
But if you don't share my support for populist fusion, you have two other choices. Run a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party as Trump did to the Republicans. This works if the base is dissatisfied with the leadership. From what I can see, this is so but not in the moderate direction that you wish. So unless, I am reading the base wrong, this won't work. The other choice is a new party. I know the challenges of this but I remind you, it took only 6 years for the Republicans to go from zero in 1854 to dominance in 1860. Democrats, if you believe current polling, have that long in the wilderness anyway. To do that, liberals need an animating issue, comparable to slavery. Support for the working class is the one favored here but given where the Republicans are, that starts looking like populist fusion. Whatever the issue winds up being, every minute liberals keep obsessing on the Bad Orange Man, is a minute lost to defining such an issue. A new party will also need a leader that can articulate the vision. John C. Fremont didn't provide that for the Republicans but Lincoln did. This in spite of the fact that Fremont was far more committed to emancipation than Lincoln. Lincoln fired him as CiC West for jumping the gun on emancipation. Lincoln was a better communicator though and a much smarter man. All the brains in the Fremont family were in the head of his wife. She was the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton and absorbed politics from early childhood.
I am hoping the future of liberalism is returning to the principles of liberalism.
I have to say that the future of liberalism looks pretty bleak. The Republicans are split between populists and conservatives so it is clearly not them. The Democrats are controlled by leftists, so clearly not them either. So what is to be done? Populist fusion is my thing. It is not hard to find elements of MAGA who agree with Democrats on important parts of economic policy. J D Vance is one of them, so bashing him is counter productive, at least from my perspective. I also should remind you that Kamala Harris, as sitting VP and presidential candidate called Trump a fascist which is far more inflammatory than anything Vance said. The left side of populist fusion would have to separate from The Groups which you seem to want for the Democrats anyway. So what is important to the left populists. Support for the working class or identarian politics. Pick one.
But if you don't share my support for populist fusion, you have two other choices. Run a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party as Trump did to the Republicans. This works if the base is dissatisfied with the leadership. From what I can see, this is so but not in the moderate direction that you wish. So unless, I am reading the base wrong, this won't work. The other choice is a new party. I know the challenges of this but I remind you, it took only 6 years for the Republicans to go from zero in 1854 to dominance in 1860. Democrats, if you believe current polling, have that long in the wilderness anyway. To do that, liberals need an animating issue, comparable to slavery. Support for the working class is the one favored here but given where the Republicans are, that starts looking like populist fusion. Whatever the issue winds up being, every minute liberals keep obsessing on the Bad Orange Man, is a minute lost to defining such an issue. A new party will also need a leader that can articulate the vision. John C. Fremont didn't provide that for the Republicans but Lincoln did. This in spite of the fact that Fremont was far more committed to emancipation than Lincoln. Lincoln fired him as CiC West for jumping the gun on emancipation. Lincoln was a better communicator though and a much smarter man. All the brains in the Fremont family were in the head of his wife. She was the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton and absorbed politics from early childhood.