The FAILED Experiment

Democrats, Here’s How to Lose in 2022. And Deserve It: You don’t get re-elected for things voters don’t know about. [Although LOSER-in-Cheat was booted for the daily incompetence voters DID know about.]

"President Biden takes office with a ticking clock. The Democrats’ margin in the House and Senate couldn’t be thinner, and midterms typically raze the governing party. That gives Democrats two years to govern. Two years to prove that the American political system can work. Two years to show [populist-authoritarianism] was an experiment that need not be repeated.

Two years.

This is the responsibility the Democratic majority must bear: If they fail or falter, they will open the door for [populist-authoritarianism] or something like it to return, and there is every reason to believe it will be far worse next time. To stop it, Democrats need to reimagine their role. They cannot merely defend the political system. They must rebuild it."
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"In their book “Presidents, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy,” the political scientists William Howell and Terry Moe write that “populists don’t just feed on socioeconomic discontent. They feed on ineffective government — and their great appeal is that they claim to replace it with a government that is effective through their own autocratic power.”

[LIAR-in-Cheat] was this kind of populist. Democrats mocked his “I alone can fix it” message LIE for its braggadocio and feared its authoritarianism, but they did not take seriously the deep soil in which it was rooted: The American system of governance is leaving too many Americans to despair and misery, too many problems unsolved, too many people disillusioned. It is captured by corporations and paralyzed by archaic rules. It is failing, and too many Democrats treat its failures as regrettable inevitabilities rather than a true crisis."

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"But now Democrats have another chance. To avoid the mistakes of the past, three principles should guide their efforts. First, they need to help people fast and visibly. Second, they need to take politics seriously, recognizing that defeat in 2022 will result in catastrophe. The [Make America GREEDRIDDEN Again RepuGNican] Party needs to be politically discredited through repeated losses; it cannot simply be allowed to ride back to primacy on the coattails of Democratic failure. And, finally, they need to do more than talk about the importance of democracy. They need to deepen American democracy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/biden-inauguration-democrats.html .

[In my words, America is a hubristic, inequity-enhancing, legislatively-impotent, gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, false-news-flooded, hyper-religionist, poorly-educated, arsenal-flooded MESS. Even worse, about 40% of Americans continue to believe venomous LIES and support the flagrant OUTgoing NON-solution. It was venom versus complacency that ensured the WORST UNpresident and amoral, anti-American Band-of-Thieves thus far.]