Democrats just won what could be their largest House majority in decades but some battle-tested centrists are already warning their party not to lose it in 2028.
Those now-emboldened Democrats, who have long competed in battleground districts, are now urging party leaders to stick to this fall’s core promises on affordability — or risk a backlash in the next election.
Privately and publicly, these Democrats are urging leaders to focus on kitchen-table issues and avoid culture-war fights they believe could divide the party and invite Republican attacks, according to nearly a dozen lawmakers and aides.
For many, that means steering clear of transgender issues and policing reform bills they fear Republicans would weaponize. They also want to avoid left-wing priorities such as ending US support for Israel or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Several Democrats also called for restraint in the party’s oversight agenda, warning that talk of impeaching President Donald Trump or his Cabinet should not overshadow that focus.
… battle-tested centrists
AKA been in office too long, now corrupt.
Term limits for Congress.
They also want to avoid left-wing priorities such as ending US support for Israel or abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
These people are so useless.
The people are done with being told we have to tighten our belts while watching billions of dollars be sent abroad to fund war and genocide. Before Trump, that was the message that “centrists” of both parties pushed, with regards to Afghanistan and elsewhere. Then, the Trump administration made the insane decision to attack Iran and talk publicly about how gas prices were soaring because everyone just had to tighten their belts for the sake of “liberating” the Iranians. That’s the single biggest reason the Republicans got slaughtered in the midterms! Now they want to keep going all in on Israel, because it’s not a “kitchen table issue?” It is absolutely a kitchen table issue!
The Democrats took a hard right shift on immigration in 2024, running as border hawks, trying to push the line that they were the ones who would actually go after immigrants, and as a result, they lost the Latino vote. Now, Trump has been sending ICE to raid workplaces, going after citizens and non-citizens alike, people live in fear going about their daily lives, businesses in Latino communities have seen their customer base either locked up or to afraid to come out. I happened to see a Latino mall the other day and there were all sorts of signs posted declaring that ICE did not have permission to enter. How on earth is this not a “kitchen table issue?” I guess didn’t realize that phrase meant specifically white people’s kitchen tables.
You want to argue the mandate is limited in scope and doesn’t extend to “culture war” issues, fine. But they’re acting like there isn’t a mandate at all! If they won’t address these issues, then what on earth would they be addressing?
They aren’t worried about their battleground state fight against a Republican, they are worried about their primary against a left progressive.
“Don’t do too much with these progressives or it will show my base what could be done with more progressives. That slow incremental changes is what makes us money from rich people not sweeping change for the masses.” Says the centrist behind closed doors.
those centrist democrats are going to be the death of the party
We beat the far right Republicans now the battle against the do nothing centrist gatekeepers begins.
“C’mon, guys, this is going to effect my bottom line, we can’t be controlled opposition if we’re not controlled! Who’s going to be bribing my vote, now, the gays? Fat chance!”
American centrist are basically just plain old right wing.
The Harbingers of Fascism have opinions.
Oh, fuck off. The next people to go are these shitty democrats that only serve themselves.
Not focusing on transgender issues means restoring the status quo. Trans people were able to change gender markers on their ID cards, and play in school sports, and not be prosecuted for using public restrooms before the current trans panic.
Restore the rights we already had. Anything less is a betrayal, and a choice to join the fascists. Refusing to restore our rights is the opposite of steering clear the issue.
I mean is that really a big issue people care about vs how expensive everything is.
Trans rights are human rights. Yes, it is that big of an issue.
I’m sure trans people care about being able to use bathrooms, join recreational group activities, and have correct government documentation. And we should stand with them, loud and steadfast, until we’ve made sure they can do that.
And even if it wasn’t, the restrictions put on trans people also affect cis people, usually more frequently than trans people.
There are absolutely reasons that cis people need HRT. There are absolutely times where cis people get accused of being trans and get kicked out of places that they are legally allowed to be. There are absolutely times where cis people are going to be forced to prove they are cis to be allowed in activities like sports.
It’s impossible to create rules that only inconvenience trans people.
The centrist Dems consistently having the worst fucking takes
The centrist democrats can shut the fuck up
So people turn out in the recent elections with a punishing result to republicans for their shit policies, and these newly “emboldened” centrist dems somehow take home the lesson that they should shift further to the right and appease republican interests?
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Fuck it. Centrists, go ahead and cosplay as republicans just like Kamala Harris did. That way when it blows up in your faces in 2028 when no one will vote for you, at least then you won’t be able to lie to yourselves by blaming the left for your failures.
Gee, maybe that’s why there are over a million signatures on a campaign to ditch those leaders. They shouldn’t listen to centrists. People are very pissed at how things are going.
Several Democrats also called for restraint in the party’s oversight agenda
And thus the donor-class MAGA-lite Dems like Schumer and Jeffries reveal themselves.
I heard a historian give their opinion the other day that accountability – openly and justly holding individuals responsible for their crimes in government – was the reason that West Germany was able to create a thriving democracy after WWII and East Germany was not. I don’t know how valid that is, but it’s a possibility, and worth thinking about.
On the other hand, I DO know that all we got from not prosecuting J6 was a kick of the can down the road and a far worse situation domestically and internationally than anyone ever saw coming. Trump has literally destroyed the last eighty years of world order and the peace and stability and prosperity that order created. Like bin Laden, Trump was only empowered to do far more evil and in far worse ways for not being held accountable for his known crimes.
And the idea that it’s either one or the other, the economy OR accountability, is a false dichotomy. The US federal government has been in operation for 250 years now, in one iteration or another, and has always done a great many things effectively and simultaneously with ease, including Congress. It’s not even hard. It only takes political will to set that machinery in motion.
Only a fool believes we can’t do both, and only a liar says we shouldn’t even try.
