Stop listening to them, and stop supporting the candidates they push forward. Doing so is an invitation to annihilation.
When
you are facing fascists, there is no room for compromise. But for
Johnson–and for so many Clinton and Obama-era officials–this is not
something that computes. For them, compromising with reasonable
Republicans and shunning the left is always the right answer.
These
are people are now behind the times. There is no room for old-school
centrist Democrats in setting the policy agenda anymore. Lead, follow,
or get out of the way. That doesn’t mean a primary challenge to Tammy
Duckworth is in order or anything–she did her centrist party mission by
dismissing AOC but she’s been a perfectly fine vote so far. She will
learn in the next 5 years.
The only road ahead for the Democrats is as
an anti-fascist party with a bold agenda that combines racial, economic,
and gendered justice. For those who fret about that, understand that
actual fascism is descending upon America, that the Supreme Court is in
the first of a multi-year process that will likely repeal a century of
progressive law, and that the future of democracy in this nation is in
doubt. There is no room for mealy-mouthed DLC compromise any longer, if
there ever really was. It makes about as much sense today as centrist politics did as the fascists took power in Europe.
In the immortal words of Jim Hightower, the only things in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos
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