There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America [View all]
Thought-provoking article from the NYT by Ben Rhodes, who was Deputy National Security Advisor under Obama. I found this paragraph near the end to reflect a lot of thinking here.
“If you don’t like what is happening to this country, you don’t need to wait for someone to come along and save it: You need each other. That should be the message that Democrats embrace, because most Americans don’t want to go where Donald Trump and Elon Musk are leading us.”
These paragraphs are from the beginning of the article.
“The party has a credibility gap rooted in its initial willingness to support Joe Biden’s decision to run for re-election while warning that the stakes were existential. If that was the case, then why ignore the overwhelming majorities of Americans who believed that he was too old to run, and choose loyalty to a Washington stalwart over the country’s appetite for drastic change?
We are living through the reckoning of defending the status quo.
Yet there is opportunity in this drift: to reimagine what the party stands for, how it will fight its way back and who will lead it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken to some members of the newer generation of Democrats in Congress wrestling with these questions, to the up-and-coming governor of Maryland and to activists who have battled authoritarianism in other countries. Their ideas leave me hopeful that there is a path for America’s political opposition if it casts off a top-down Washington strategy, stale talking points about democracy and the middle class and its own circular firing squads.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/opinion/democrats-trump-resistance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.h7bF.0EGL_cwkMM2G&smid=url-share
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