Friday, May 06, 2022

Quote of the Day

What we’re witnessing from the establishment wing of the [Democratic] party is a repeated effort to frame progressives as naive and fringe. The problem with that is when you look at public polling, Americans overwhelmingly support progressive policies. When you remove party affiliation or names like AOC from these pieces of legislation, bills in support of universal health care, a $15 minimum wage and holding corporations accountable are wildly popular, which lets us know that they’ve got the right policies, the missing piece is messaging. The Democratic Party is not the party of Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. It’s becoming more and more the party of a young progressive movement. Like anything else, that shift hasn’t happened overnight, but it is clearly happening.

Michael Starr Hopkins
Quoted in Hanna Trudo’s article,
Progressives Struggle for Momentum
After Spate of Losses

The Hill
May 6, 2022


NEXT: Celebrating Tuesday’s Progressive Wins in the
Midst of the “War for the Future of the Democratic Party”



Related Off-site Links:
Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Need “Major Course Correction” to Prevent GOP Takeover – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, January 10, 2022).
To Govern and Win Elections, Democrats Must Defeat Corporate Lobby – Not Surrender to It – Jeffrey D. Sachs (CNN Politics via Common Dreams, November 5, 2021).
Our Government Isn’t Progressive — But America Is – Julie Olicer (Data for Progress, October 22, 2020).
Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies – Robert Weissman (PublicCitizen.org, May 1, 2020).
Majority of Americans Support Progressive Policies – Steve Liesman (CNBC News, March 27, 2019).
The United States Is a Progressive Nation With a Democracy Problem – David M. Perry (The Nation, February 6, 2019).

UPDATES: They Are Not Even Pretending Anymore: Democratic Leaders Are Joining With Oligarchs to Try to Permanently Destroy the Progressive Movement – David Sirota (The Lever, May 17, 2022).
Progressives Win Key Primary Races Despite Millions Spent to Back Corporate DemocratsDemocracy Now! (May 18, 2022).
Kentucky Progressive Charles Booker Wins Democratic U.S. Senate Primary – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, May 18, 2022).
Nina Turner: Democrats Must Decide If They Are “Party of the Corporatists or Party of the People”Democracy Now! (May 18, 2022).
Big Wins, Tough Losses in Key Progressive Primary Fights – Kenny Stancil (Common Dreams, May 18, 2022).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
Ricardo Levins Morales on the “Deepest Political Fault Line” Separating Democrats
Maebe A. Girl: A “Decidedly Progressive Candidate” for Congress
Nina Turner: “A Candidate Who Can Make An Enormous Difference”
Progressive Perspectives on Nina Turner’s Election Loss
Will Democrats Never Learn?
Colin Taylor on the “Moral Obscenity” of Obstructionist Democrats Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema
Hamilton Nolan: Quote of the Day – August 3, 2021
Norman Solomon: Quote of the Day – July 8, 2021
David Sirota: Quote of the Day – January 26, 2021
Cornel West: Quote of the Day – December 3, 2020
Progressive Perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Election Results
Biden’s Win: “As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”
We Cannot Allow a Biden Win to Mean a Return to “Brunch Liberalism”
My Summer of Supporting Progressive Down-Ballot Candidates
Marianne Williamson on the Contest Being Played Out by Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Quote of the Day – March 10, 2019

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