‘Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique
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Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.

“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”

Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.

He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    13 days ago

    They didn't technically 'end it', they let it expire, but functionally yes. They let Joe Manchin (remember that boogeyman) 'air concerns' and act as the scapegoat for letting it end.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        13 days ago

        I don't think they wanted to do it to begin with, beyond the positive boost they get from doing it. What social programs have liberals actually started in the last 20 years?

        A pitifully half assed government health care plan?

        Doing it the way they did means they get to use it as a plank they 'fulfilled', they can let it expire and blame Joe Manchin and Conservatives for 'killing it', and then they don't have to keep it around

        • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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          13 days ago

          I would argue the infrastructure bill was good. Forget what that was a part of, maybe the Inflation Reduction Act? It's helped my local city build up their public transportation and roads more.