Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party | Common Dreams
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"Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are architects of the crisis that allowed Trump's fascism to arise and succeed," argued one progressive organizer. "They have zero credibility to be leading the fights we face today."

House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    12 hours ago

    Their coalition had a majority from 2020-2022. During which time Republicans were all-powerful.

    Stop pretending that we didn’t give your party a majority that they squandered.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      Um akshually

      We gave them 48 + 2 Ind and VP tiebreaker gave them the speaker position. They literally did not even have a simple majority even with the Independents.