Rahm Emanuel Knows The Democratic Party is Fucked: The ‘Bernie Bros’ Could Spoil Democrats’ Midterms
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UPDATED: Friday, July 24, 2026 10:59
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Republicans will make even moderate opponents answer for the radical views of DSA candidates.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-bernie-bros-could-spoil-democrats-midt
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I keep telling you this guy is going to make a run for the Presidency, and he's the only Democrat name people know who has a chance in hell at winning.
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I have no objection to the Democrats’ nominating an oysterman for a Senate seat. When I led our party’s effort to recapture the House in 2006, we made a point of recruiting candidates with “authentic” broad-based appeal. But that strategy, which flipped 31 seats during my tenure, and claimed 21 more in 2008, was predicated on a substantive premise: We needed to allay voters’ worries that Democrats were weak on national defense and culturally out of touch, vulnerabilities born from previous elections. If we could do that, the door would open for us to make the campaign about the GOP’s corruption, which ranged from “The House That Tom DeLay Built” to Iraq war contracts.
Today, the “Bernie bros” and their fellow travelers in the Democratic Socialists of America seem intent on repudiating the proven success of that strategy. When the DSA attempts to turn safe Democratic states and districts a darker shade of blue, Democratic candidates in swing districts are put at a distinct disadvantage. In New York’s 13th Congressional District, a young socialist, Darializa Avila Chevalier, ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. She did it by winning over the district’s newly arrived urban professionals while losing the black and Hispanic voters she claimed to champion. Those marginalized communities, like most voters around the country, don’t have the same tastes as the gentrifying parts of Harlem and upper Manhattan.
What happens in the 13th District doesn’t stay in the 13th District. The midterm election this year should be about the Trump administration’s corruption, which makes Mr. DeLay look like a choirboy. But in the name of “authenticity,” the DSA and others are saddling the Democratic Party with nominees whose wildly unpopular positions will protect Republicans from having to pay the price of Donald Trump’s corruption and economic incompetence.
Already Denise Powell, a bright star perfectly positioned to flip a district in and around Omaha, Neb., where I visited recently, is being unfairly labeled “DSA Denise” by the state GOP. It’s no surprise Republicans have picked up on this strategy: The DSA’s cultural agenda adds baggage for Democrats already saddled with a poor party image from the Biden era. Candidates in competitive districts have to spend time and effort differentiating themselves from the DSA’s agenda when they should be focusing voters on Mr. Trump’s corruption.
Ultimately, this is about policy. It was socialists who led the charge to defund the police, open the borders, abolish prisons, release violent criminals onto the streets and degrade the flag. We know those are electoral losers. In 2020, after protestors chanted to defund the police, Joe Biden was swept into office without coattails. After Mr. Biden instituted an open-border policy, we lost control of the House in 2022 and the White House and Senate in 2024.
Red-to-blue election swings matter. The 52 combined seats we moved in 2006 and 2008 gave President Obama the majority he needed to pass both the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reform. In the Senate, he depended on the support of Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson, a moderate Democrat from a ruby-red state. President Biden’s ability to pass the clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act hinged on the vote cast by West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin. Today, both those Senate seats are controlled by the GOP, Mr. Manchin having chosen not to seek re-election in 2024 after being threatened by the Bernie bros.
This isn’t advanced algebra. If you want to raise the minimum wage, as Democrats did most recently after we took the majority in 2006, you need to flip more red districts.NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
It's ironic to read Rahm Emmanuel making corruption a campaign flagship.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It's ironic to read Rahm Emmanuel making corruption a campaign flagship.
Indeed.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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I'm sure you understand by now what Rahm's Secret Sauce is, and why he could really be a threat to the Republican party by now, Sigs.
He's a name everybody remembers, who also brings back those vague nostalgia feels of a time of "hope and change" even if everyone knows that no such things ever happened. The VIBE of that time, the excitement of that time. The belief that hope and change were on the horizon.
Though I viewed that time differently than Democratic voters would, I would have to imagine that those feelings of nostalgia for that time in their own lives would be a very strong subconscious motivator.
To me, that's the time his name evokes. Most people will only vaguely remember who he was and would probably believe any story you told them about what he did during the Obama administration even if there weren't a shred of truth to it. And the best part is, unlike so many other Democratic Party politicians out there, he hasn't tainted his name by opening his dumb mouth every 5 seconds. Therefore he isn't even a "person from now" to most people. He's back there in the parts of the mind of Democrat voters where old re-runs you watched and enjoyed are stored.
Until about a year ago, I hadn't heard his name in eons. And after I had, I rarely ever hear him speak. Maybe only 3 or 4 times now. But when I do, I hear some of the only sensible sounding dialog spoken left of John Fetterman.
I don't like him, and the idea of him being President is actually quite unnerving. But we're coming to that turning point where we might actually be voting for the lesser of two evils instead of just kind of jokingly saying that to each other like we used to.
Let me put it this way...
We have open primaries in Indiana. Unless I feel STRONGLY that I need to vote for a particular GOP ticket in 2028, I'm voting for Rahm Emanuel in the primary if he's on the ballot. And mark my words, I think that's ultimately going to be announced in a somewhat near future.
Currently, I don't see any other path available to the Democratic Party that doesn't lead to complete disaster.
And everybody's eyes have now been opened to the fact that the reason why disaster lies for them on every other path is because they will follow anyone off the cliff. There is NOBODY they will not follow, trust and believe in 100% if the media tells them that is what they should do. Until they shouldn't do it anymore and they're told to turn on that person and everyone immediately flips on them after their memory has been wiped and given its new daily programming.
2 years from now if you bring up Graham Platner's name to any Democratic Party voter and told them that they couldn't use their phone, they wouldn't even be able to tell you what state he is from, let alone what office he was running for. Their entire memory of him and their blind, slavish devotion to his name for a couple of weeks there never happened in their minds.
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