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(29,718 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)He wouldn't be a push-over
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)None of this mamby pamby give him a chance stuff.
procon
(15,805 posts)He retiring from the senate. He has serious health issues. Speculation like this is a useless distraction.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)You'll find it in the dictionary. Under "S".
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Adopting an establishment strategy when trust in the political establishment is at an all time low is the strategic analog to sticking one's face into a fucking cannon.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)If he can do for the national party what he has done for his state party that would be a dramatic improvement.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Old. White. Male.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)And let's not ignore the fact he engineered the election of the first Latina to the Senate.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Maybe a person of color can clean up their mess. That is what they always have to do in every other branch of society.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Harry Reid engineered the election of the first Latina to the Senate. He knows how to fight and knows how to win. He was the first Democrat to resist the normalizing of Donald Trump:
November 11, 2016 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement about the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States:
I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election completed last Tuesday. The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America.
White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trumps victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.
I have heard more stories in the past 48 hours of Americans living in fear of their own government and their fellow Americans than I can remember hearing in five decades in politics. Hispanic Americans who fear their families will be torn apart, African Americans being heckled on the street, Muslim Americans afraid to wear a headscarf, gay and lesbian couples having slurs hurled at them and feeling afraid to walk down the street holding hands. American children waking up in the middle of the night crying, terrified that Trump will take their parents away. Young girls unable to understand why a man who brags about sexually assaulting women has been elected president.
I have a large family. I have one daughter and twelve granddaughters. The texts, emails and phone calls I have received from them have been filled with fear fear for themselves, fear for their Hispanic and African American friends, for their Muslim and Jewish friends, for their LBGT friends, for their Asian friends. Ive felt their tears and Ive felt their fear.
We as a nation must find a way to move forward without consigning those who Trump has threatened to the shadows. Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them. Every news piece that breathlessly obsesses over inauguration preparations compounds their fear by normalizing a man who has threatened to tear families apart, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and who has directed crowds of thousands to intimidate reporters and assault African Americans. Their fear is legitimate and we must refuse to let it fall through the cracks between the fluff pieces.
If this is going to be a time of healing, we must first put the responsibility for healing where it belongs: at the feet of Donald Trump, a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate. Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try.
If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.
madokie
(51,076 posts)if we can be so lucky I'd be in hog heaven. Harry takes no prisoners, just what we need as chair
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)He's physically fearless
He's politically fearless
He's an excellent organizer and leader.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)She delivered an insurmountable EV lead for Hillary, Ruben Kihuen, and Catherine Cortez Masto in NV. She knows the operation needed to turnout dems and dem-friendly voters.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)There is no rule the DNC leader needs to be someone who had a high profile. He or she just needs to know how to fight and win.
BTW, I like visiting Vegas. I don't think I would like it as much if it was red.