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English - November 19, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by millions of votes but Democrats in the House and Senate underperformed their polling. The Democratic majority in the House of the Representatives got smaller. People are mad, and they’re getting into fights.
But what is this fight roiling the Democratic Party about? Is it really an ideological clash between progressive and conservative Democrats, or is it a fight about campaign strategy? When conservative Democrats claim “socialism” and “Defund The Police” cost them seats, who are they talking to? And if winning majorities of votes again and again only rarely translates into the power to govern, are we missing a bigger, structural crisis here? On the first Bloc Party Group Chat, Guido Girgenti slides into the DMs with Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid and Justice Democrats political director Amira Hassan to talk it out.
Want to dig deeper on what went wrong for Congressional Democrats in 2020? Check out this post-election memo co-authored by Justice Democrats, New Deal Strategies, the Sunrise Movement, and Data for Progress.
Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected]
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by millions of votes but Democrats in the House and Senate underperformed their polling. The Democratic majority in the House of the Representatives got smaller. People are mad, and they’re getting into fights.
But what is this fight roiling the Democratic Party about? Is it really an ideological clash between progressive and conservative Democrats, or is it a fight about campaign strategy? When conservative Democrats claim “socialism” and “Defund The Police” cost them seats, who are they talking to? And if winning majorities of votes again and again only rarely translates into the power to govern, are we missing a bigger, structural crisis here? On the first Bloc Party Group Chat, Guido Girgenti slides into the DMs with Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid and Justice Democrats political director Amira Hassan to talk it out.
Want to dig deeper on what went wrong for Congressional Democrats in 2020? Check out this post-election memo co-authored by Justice Democrats, New Deal Strategies, the Sunrise Movement, and Data for Progress.
Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected]