The Way Forward
Related: About this forumAdvice from James Carville
(who masterminded Bill Clinton's two successful presidential campaigns):
With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, its time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular.

Ocelot II
(123,957 posts)Diamond_Dog
(36,466 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(11,052 posts)things I've ever heard.
Yeah, roll over, shut up, and let the other side control all the messaging. Who is paying him, anyway????
The corporate media is bad enough without Democrats giving up completely, how the hell does he think "the American people" will ever know who they should miss????
niyad
(122,998 posts)go fishing, or whatever that hat indicates.
ms liberty
(10,114 posts)But it might be down to the high 30's by the weekend at this rate.
ILikePie92
(30 posts)I guess Carville and Schumer are reading from the same playbook
stopdiggin
(13,542 posts)But Carville has been at least consistent in pushing this 'passive aggressive' nostrum.
(there really isn't any question that Ds don't have any significant levers or power right at the moment - but that doesn't preclude us from highlighting gross INSANITY as it rears its head - and contrasting that against what 'responsible' policy and government looks like ... "Remember not so long ago ... When people actually thought that school children were worth investing in - and those that lived in crumbling areas, might actually deserve a break .. ?" )
Scrivener7
(55,006 posts)Phoenix61
(18,224 posts)as a country or what people want. No one will vote for a Dem if we lay down and play dead now. They will never trust us again and they shouldnt.
Skittles
(163,076 posts)terrifying to the folk who will be severely harmed by these fascist fucks
MayReasonRule
(2,893 posts)Lame
Paladin
(29,968 posts)You're wasting valuable time in which you should be fucking yourself.
CTyankee
(65,906 posts)It takes a while to recover I guess.....
AllyCat
(17,713 posts)mdmc
(29,345 posts)Perhaps doing nothing except townhalls and townhalls and townhalls
Keep Bernie doing what he is doing..