No condemning Cuba coming from this campaign 😏

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    I think it’s potentially instructive here to take a look at the 34th Congress of the United States. The new party that year was an upstart abolitionist party that called itself the Republican Party, you might have heard of it. In that Congress, the (brand-new as of 1854) Republican Party started with 7 and finished with 11 senators in its column, versus 0 and 1 House representatives at the start and end, respectively. Maybe the times are different enough that this isn’t the right approach, but the way the Dems have utterly failed to tune into the attitudes of their own voting base puts them in a very bad historical position by my reckoning, so there just might be an opening.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      There are many, many parallels to the birth of the Republicans and the pre-Cvil War era. It’s easy to imagine an alternative path where a Republican party with deeper democratic structures enabling the Radical Republicans to stay in control of the party, complete Reconstruction, and build far more racial and social equality. Lots of lessons to be learned in that period.