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New York Post
04-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Dems plan for ‘Project 2029' met with skepticism as party continues to divide: Report
New York Times political correspondent Shane Goldmacher detailed the mixed opinions among political strategists on the Democratic Party's plan for Project 2029 — a ready-made agenda for the party's next presidential nominee. Goldmacher revealed on Monday that while many Democratic strategists are on board with the project's vision, some are skeptical that the agenda set forth could upset the left's 'interest-group Borg' and deepen the divide within the party. The creator of Project 2029, former Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party Andrei Cherny, is working on organizing Democratic thought leaders to ensure there is a set-in-stone agenda ready. 'The title is an unsubtle play on Project 2025, the independently produced right-wing agenda that Mr. Trump spent much of last year's campaign distancing himself from, and much of his first few months back in power executing,' Goldmacher noted in the piece. Cherny's plan takes more inspiration from the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 than just its name. Similar to Project 2025, the goal of Project 2029 is to turn Cherny's publication, 'Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,' into a book — and rally the party's presidential candidates behind those ideas during the 2028 primary election season. 3 CEO of Aspiration Andrei Cherny attends a special Washington, DC screening of 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power' at The Newseum on July 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. Getty Images for Paramount Pictures 'The undertaking, which has not previously been reported, strikes at the heart of a raging debate consuming Democratic lawmakers, strategists and policymakers: whether the root of the party's problems is its ideas or its difficulty in persuading people to embrace them,' Goldmacher stated. According to Celinda Lake, a prominent Democratic pollster quoted in the story, the party 'didn't lack policies,' but rather 'lacked a functioning narrative to communicate those policies.' She criticized the Democratic Party for offering voters 'agencies and acronyms and statistics' rather than presenting a clear story about 'what we're going to fight for.' On the other hand, some Democrats contend that the party has been faltering due to stale ideas that fail to inspire voters to get behind them. 3 Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senator, makes remarks on Project 2025 at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at the United Center on Monday, August 19, 2024. Ron Sachs – CNP for NY Post Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress and advisor to Project 2029, argued that liberals 'underestimate the power of Trump's ideas' and that the focus has been his personality. 'We get wrapped up in his personality. But he puts forward an idea like 'No tax on tips,' and that's an important signifier that he is championing working-class people,' Tanden told the New York Times. Cherny's plan to assemble 'the Avengers of public policy' — a coalition of Democrats aiming to set the agenda for their party's next presidential candidate — did not sit well with some who believe that coalitions are to blame for the party's current predicament. 3 A scoreboard displays 'DNC 2024' ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center on August 16, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. The United Center will host the DNC, which is officially scheduled to kick off on Monday, August 19 and run through Thursday, August 22. Getty Images 'Developing policies by checking every coalitional box is how we got in this mess in the first place,' stated Adam Jentleson in the piece, the former chief of staff for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. 'There is no way to propose the kind of policies the Democratic Party needs to adopt without pissing off some part of the interest-group Borg. And if you're too afraid to do that, you don't have what it takes to steer the party in the right direction.' Even though Democrats were successful in rallying their base against Project 2025, Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, claimed that those efforts will not have a negative effect on Project 2029 because — unlike the Heritage Foundation — their 'ideas aren't radical or extreme.' Tomasky stated that he hoped the project would help rejuvenate the public's view of the Democratic Party among the less fortunate.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Democratic operatives freaked out that party won't have 'come-to-Jesus' moment after Trump win: NYT
Some Democratic Party operatives fear that their party is not going to learn anything from their historic 2024 defeat at the hands of President Trump. The New York Times published a report this week detailing the "deepening distress" some have that their party will not internalize what went wrong and what they need to fix following the 2024 election. "The fear is that Democrats are squandering one of the few silver linings of losing: the chance to learn lessons from defeat," Times political reporter Shane Goldmacher wrote on Monday. 'Important Opportunity': Dnc Chair Candidates Reveal How They Will Rebound After Disastrous 2024 Results In the piece, Goldmacher focused on a recent meeting of "several dozen Democratic political operatives" where they discussed "hard truths" that the party needs to confront. Jonathan Cowan, the president of the more centrist Democratic Party group, "Third Way," which led the meeting, addressed attendees, saying, "Now is not the time for taking refuge in comforting platitudes." Read On The Fox News App According to the report, he added, "Now is not the time to bet on the other guys" messing up "so badly that we win simply by not being them" – with Goldmacher noting he used a "much coarser" phrase than "messing up." Goldmacher quoted another leader at the meeting, Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell, who said the party has to "have a come-to-Jesus moment as a team." Much hay has been made by prominent Democratic strategists in the media out of the point that the party has doubled down on the woke ideas that cost it in 2024. Longtime Democratic Party strategist James Carville recently shredded the Democratic National Committee meeting last month that called upon the body to implement and uphold woke gender rules regarding its membership. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "And it's like, there's a, a plant somewhere in quote, progressive, unquote America, that just to seize how many jacka--, stupid things that they can embrace, it's stunningly stupid," he said during a recent MSNBC appearance. Longtime liberal media pundit Joe Klein savaged the continued insistence on prioritizing woke thinking present at the meeting, writing in his Substack column that it could be proof that the party is broken beyond repair. "Yes, friends, still crazy after all these years… and the encroaching dementia is not benign. Can this party be saved? I have my doubts," he wrote. Goldmacher wrote that multiple Democratic groups across the "party's ideological spectrum" are looking to reform the party but their "views of how to fix what went wrong are often diametrically opposed." He noted that most concerned liberals understand that they have a "problem with the working class," but there isn't a consensus on how to address it. "Some favor shedding unpopular policies or reprioritizing new ones. Others focus on improving the messages deployed to sell those policies to voters — or on how to deliver the party's message, whatever it turns out to be, in a fractured media environment," he wrote, adding that trying to fight back against the current Trump agenda threatens to stymie any unified approach to fixing the party. Homan Takes Victory Lap After Illegal Immigrant Crossings Plummet During Trump Admin: 'He Is Delivering' "The pressure for Democrats to push back on President Trump's expansive agenda further complicates any prospect of a unified, rigorous 'autopsy' like the one Republicans conducted in 2012. Opposing Mr. Trump has been the Democratic Party's greatest unifying force for nearly a decade. But the 2024 election showed that its coalition of resistance is no longer a majority." Goldmacher continued, noting that Democratic figures do not agree with new DNC chair Ken Martin's assessment that it's "wrong" for the party to come up with a "new message." "The line has ricocheted through the party, leaving many Democrats shaking their heads in dismay and concluding that Mr. Martin will defend the status quo," he wrote. The author quoted a Democratic contributor from Florida named John Morgan, who said, "That whole group of people that they elected to the D.N.C., to me, means they have learned absolutely nothing in the shellacking of Kamala Harris." "Swing Left" executive director Yasmin Radjy was quoted on how voters are also tired of the "endless freaking fund-raising emails and texts" from party leaders and liberal groups, which they feel are "remarkably tone-deaf and anger-inducing in this moment."Original article source: Democratic operatives freaked out that party won't have 'come-to-Jesus' moment after Trump win: NYT
Fox News
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Democratic operatives freaked out that party won't have 'come-to-Jesus' moment after Trump win: NYT
Some Democratic Party operatives fear that their party is not going to learn anything from their historic 2024 defeat at the hands of President Trump. The New York Times published a report this week detailing the "deepening distress" some have that their party will not internalize what went wrong and what they need to fix following the 2024 election. "The fear is that Democrats are squandering one of the few silver linings of losing: the chance to learn lessons from defeat," Times political reporter Shane Goldmacher wrote on Monday. In the piece, Goldmacher focused on a recent meeting of "several dozen Democratic political operatives" where they discussed "hard truths" that the party needs to confront. Jonathan Cowan, the president of the more centrist Democratic Party group, "Third Way," which led the meeting, addressed attendees, saying, "Now is not the time for taking refuge in comforting platitudes." According to the report, he added, "Now is not the time to bet on the other guys" messing up "so badly that we win simply by not being them" – with Goldmacher noting he used a "much coarser" phrase than "messing up." Goldmacher quoted another leader at the meeting, Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell, who said the party has to "have a come-to-Jesus moment as a team." Much hay has been made by prominent Democratic strategists in the media out of the point that the party has doubled down on the woke ideas that cost it in 2024. Longtime Democratic Party strategist James Carville recently shredded the Democratic National Committee meeting last month that called upon the body to implement and uphold woke gender rules regarding its membership. "And it's like, there's a, a plant somewhere in quote, progressive, unquote America, that just to seize how many jacka--, stupid things that they can embrace, it's stunningly stupid," he said during a recent MSNBC appearance. Longtime liberal media pundit Joe Klein savaged the continued insistence on prioritizing woke thinking present at the meeting, writing in his Substack column that it could be proof that the party is broken beyond repair. "Yes, friends, still crazy after all these years… and the encroaching dementia is not benign. Can this party be saved? I have my doubts," he wrote. Goldmacher wrote that multiple Democratic groups across the "party's ideological spectrum" are looking to reform the party but their "views of how to fix what went wrong are often diametrically opposed." He noted that most concerned liberals understand that they have a "problem with the working class," but there isn't a consensus on how to address it. "Some favor shedding unpopular policies or reprioritizing new ones. Others focus on improving the messages deployed to sell those policies to voters — or on how to deliver the party's message, whatever it turns out to be, in a fractured media environment," he wrote, adding that trying to fight back against the current Trump agenda threatens to stymie any unified approach to fixing the party. "The pressure for Democrats to push back on President Trump's expansive agenda further complicates any prospect of a unified, rigorous 'autopsy' like the one Republicans conducted in 2012. Opposing Mr. Trump has been the Democratic Party's greatest unifying force for nearly a decade. But the 2024 election showed that its coalition of resistance is no longer a majority." Goldmacher continued, noting that Democratic figures do not agree with new DNC chair Ken Martin's assessment that it's "wrong" for the party to come up with a "new message." "The line has ricocheted through the party, leaving many Democrats shaking their heads in dismay and concluding that Mr. Martin will defend the status quo," he wrote. The author quoted a Democratic contributor from Florida named John Morgan, who said, "That whole group of people that they elected to the D.N.C., to me, means they have learned absolutely nothing in the shellacking of Kamala Harris." "Swing Left" executive director Yasmin Radjy was quoted on how voters are also tired of the "endless freaking fund-raising emails and texts" from party leaders and liberal groups, which they feel are "remarkably tone-deaf and anger-inducing in this moment."
