After Blue Tsunami, Progressives Don't Trust Schumer and Jeffries to Lead Congress | Common Dreams
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Democrats won back control of Congress—but will Schumer and Jeffries deliver the bold change voters demanded? Many progressives are worried.

“Schumer is bad at his job,” said one organizer. “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

After a Democratic “tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections that has been widely seen as “a mandate to deliver big change,” progressives within and beyond Congress have cast doubt on whether the New York Democrats likely to lead both chambers are actually up for facing Donald Trump’s veto threats and fighting for the “bold agenda” sought by US voters.

As critics of artificial intelligence data centers prepared for a Friday protest outside the Brooklyn home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over a “dirty” bill that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is suddenly speaking out about, political organizer Corbin Trent argued that “Schumer is bad at his job” and “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    I totally agree that the first mandate from the voters is to fix the economy, but until there’s a consensus among Democrats on how to go about that I don’t think they can really act on that mandate.

    Are we going to keep trying the same type of economic policies that have been in place since Reagan? Cause those clearly aren’t helping anybody other than the billionaire oligarchs.

    If we’re going to try something new, then maybe we should try the type of economic policy that progressives are calling for? Just a thought.

    But acting aggressively to defend democracy from Trump is a mandate they can act on now.

    Yes, agreed.