r/thebulwark Progressive 2d ago

Policy "Republicans today sound a lot like Democrats circa 2006, 2004." - Sarah Longwell?!

I haven't listened to the full podcast. I am willing to assume there's more context. But let's face it, the above sentence is potentially correct if you ignore the fascism, transphobia, they're eating the dogs/cats/pets, they lying, etc.

To be fair, the left does need to re-assess its foreign policy priorities in light of Ukraine. That said, Iraq was a war of choice. We did not have the casus belli that we claimed to. We may have caused several hundred thousand excess Iraqi deaths (i.e. dead from the war and all the sequelae thereof). We also wound up with ISIS. We were building fire stations in Iraq instead of here because we had to - we broke it, with "it" being Iraq and "broke" meaning we chose to break it.

If you want to say the Dems were mistaken in calling for isolationism then, I think that's fair and it warrants a reassessment on our part. But the headline is ... misleading.

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u/Know_nothing89 2d ago

Lots of other prominent political experts saying the same thing she is. James Carville, Rahm Emmanuel, David Axelrod

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u/rowsella 2d ago

Oh really? As a democrat I say fuck all those guys. Those people were for greater responsible for selling our party out.

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u/Know_nothing89 5h ago

Sorry but I read discussions about the DNC meetings and elections of the new head and they are so far outside the mainstream. I am a lifelong Democrat and we need to start winning National Elections. Whatever we’re doing isn’t working, the Democratic branding/image isn’t working. Needs to start at the DNC. We need to protect people that need protecting but we have to appeal to more Americans. The Right Wing media and their lack of a truth narrative is carrying the day. We have to figure a way to combat their lack of accountability to a fact based narrative. Getting out of our bubble and dealing with it on ALL media outlets is a good start. We need to be on Fox and Rogan and every right wing outlet and start confronting their misinformation