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"The fault is not in the Democrats’ campaigns; it is in themselves. This is a party that represents the nerve center of American capitalism, ideological production, and imperial power. Elon Musk’s contributions notwithstanding, in just three months Harris raised far more money than Trump, from a much broader and deeper bench of wealthy elites. This is a party that embodies a contented American status quo—its faultless Constitution, its dynamic “opportunity economy,” its “indispensable” role as military policeman of the global order. And this is a party for which everything is either righteously moral or bloodlessly technical, but for which nothing is political—that is, alert to real questions of power and subject to actual popular contestation.
It is no coincidence that the past three Democratic nominees for president did not emerge from any kind of political process, but were preselected by fellow elites—“anointed” is, in fact, the correct word for the actions of a party of such aristocratic manner and apostolic self-regard. Barack Obama anointed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and then, in a crunch, Joe Biden in 2020; Biden, in turn, anointed Harris when he stepped down. Squashing the Sanders insurgency was one thing, since the rebels were all outside the castle, but this is a party that simply does not welcome internal ideological debate."
Comment by Micky-OMick at 24/01/2025 at 18:31 UTC
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Yeah. No shit. Now do GOP since Nixon…