Back in June, before Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Kamala Harris would run on an unappetizing campaign of canned joy and fear, the New York Times ran an article outlining plans for a new anti-Trump resistance movement. The Democratic Party was essentially admitting that lacking an agenda of its own for the greater public good, it fully expected that Donald Trumpwould prevail once again in November. To that end, it was already making plans to produce an epic multipart soap opera to play out in the courtrooms of America and, of c,ourse, the consolidated corporate media matrix that still poses as journalism in the public interest.
They were not kidding. In a follow-up piece published on Thursday, the Times dished that a team of 800 lawyers, salaries paid by the party's myriad veal pens, had been working behind the scenes for the past two years readying a lawfare campaign for the ages. It will not be the weakened Democratic minorities in both houses of congress that will be Trump's foes. It will be teams of unelected lawyers for hire.
The consortium of nearly 300 liberal organizations has dubbed itself Democracy 2025, presumably as a dig at the right-wing Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's wish list of antisocial measures.
Ron Klain, Joe Biden's outgoing sidekick, has already scored a seat on the board of directors. That was so fast, you might even suspect that the current administration was not only planning for "defeat," but hoping for it. Because although ordinary people may have lost, there will always be paid political functionaries who win, no matter which "side" they are on.
As far as Democrats being chastened for abandoning the working class and poor in favor of sucking up to Wall Street and Hollywood, far from it.
Thanks to Donald Trump's cooperative casting of cartoon villains to his cabinet, professional Democratic operatives will now get to play heroes straight out of the Justice League franchise. We will be asked to enjoy dystopian dark times by settling back into our seats to watch the next exciting episode of superheroes vanquishing the Joker. Until he rises again to create even more havoc.
Unlike in 2017, when Democratic lawyers were unprepared for the onslaught of conservative policies, the intent is to be ready to unleash a flurry of lawsuits immediately.
“We’re leveling up and lawyering up,” Skye Perryman, the chief executive of the organization, said. “This wasn’t something that just everybody woke up the day after the election and started to plan.”
Just think, too, if Kamala had defied their rosy expectations and beaten Trump. Perryman and her team of 800 legal warriors might be languishing in some low level government job or second tier law firm, destined to live out their careers in crushing anonymity. This way they get to don a crusading cape and eke out at least their requisite 15 minutes of fame. They will get invited on MSNBC and maybe even be able to parlay their performances to permanent gigs.
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Democratic Party lawfare worked so well for the past 8 years that Trump's poll numbers went up with every felony charge and conviction and it helped score him a massive win. They never learn.
Americans don't like lawfare in their politics.
They did not like it nor respond well when Republicans did it to the Clintons. They did not like it nor respond well when Democrats did it for the last four years to Trump. Now they are not likely to respond well when Trump does payback+ to the Democrats for what they have been doing, no matter how much they deserve it. Please note, Clinton, Trump, and the Biden team are all totally guilty of every accusation -- but lawfare is not our way.
I am just so mad at the real progressives in the Democratic Party - I'm talking the voters here - that they didn't throw their weight and their votes behind Jill Stein. In their Lesser of Two Evils votes, they showed the DNC that they are willing to take crumbs, forgo their Constitutional Rights, move toward authoritarianism, drink up the propaganda, continue deleterious wars, have their country participate in Genocide and throw the Middle Class under the bus. The Democratic Party deserves four years of Trump.
Former Democrats are prominent in the new administration: Trump, RFKJr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Elon Musk.
Former Dems won the election!
We tend to forget that the category "former Dems" includes Donald Trump himself. He was a Democrat for far longer than he's been a Republican, essentially changing only to take the nomination of 2016
"The Democrats Deserved to Lose 1,000 Times Over" —
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/15/the-democrats-deserved-to-lose-1000-times-over/
November 15, 2024 ~ by Kshama Sawant
" ... Still, it’s ludicrous to think that Matt Gaetz could further debase the office of Attorney General, where the likes of Mitchell Palmer, John Mitchell, Richard Kleindeist, Ed Meese, Janet Reno, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr have already roosted…."
~ Jeffrey St. Clair
Americans are insufferably smug--even worse than the French and the British before them. It's the banality of empire :-( .
Not all of us are “progressives” who voted for Jill Stein. Some of us might actually be considered to be of a “conservative” bent. Still, the “choice” between Trump and Harris was simply too repugnant to consider, so we chose otherwise as a matter of necessity in order to preserve our civil rights. Not a decision between “the lesser of two evils,” but perhaps a choice for the good.
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