Democrat(s)

Friday 29th of March 2024

Democratic Party In the early 1970s, the party became the home of educated professionals, nonwhite voters, and the shrinking unionized working class. The more the party identified with the winners of the new economy, the easier it became for the Republican Party to pull away white workers by appealing to cultural values. Bill and Hillary Clinton spoke about equipping workers to rise into the professional class through education and training. Their assumption was that all Americans could do what they did and be like them. George Packer, The Atlantic, July/August 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party It is the developing trend of the party, not its record, Among its Washington corps of politicians, fewer and fewer are masters, as Mr [Mitch] McConnell is, of procedural arcana. What knavery it used to have was often learnt in the unions. The tone of the party is now set by younger and more educated activists who treat politics as a matter of first principles, not mechanisms – as a cause, not a craft. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 11, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party Left parties the world over were founded to advance the fortunes of working people. But our left party in America – one of our two monopoly parties – chose long ago to turn its back on these people's concerns, making itself instead into the tribune of the enlightened pro- fessional class, a “creative class” that makes innovative things like derivative securities and smartphone apps. The working people that the party used to care about, Democrats figured, had nowhere else to go, in the famous Clinton-era expression. The party just didn't need to listen to them any longer. Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democratic Party The rejection of [George] Wallace [in 1964] was as much a statement for the Democratic Party as the acceptance of Trump by the Republican Party. Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats The Democrats came to think of themselves not as the voice of working class people at all but as a sort of coming together of the learned and the virtuous. Thomas Frank, The People, No © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Democrats can be too big a tent. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Even the party’s most progressive field for a generation or two does not contemplate taxes that are European in breadth and depth. Pressed on this point, Democrats invoke the sage that was Willie Sutton. The criminal of yore targeted banks because, he said, with unanswerable logic, “That’s where the money is.” In a country with America’s titanic inequalities, the top 1 per cent is where the money is. It is the obvious percentile to press for revenue. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats I don't believe in litmus tests for Democrats. I'm not voting anybody off the island. Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats In a lot of ways, the Democratic Party went from protecting people to protecting feelings. Bill Maher © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Orange County is a place where you can ask people if that's their real hair color; you can ask them if that diamond is real; you can ask if that car is a lease. But you cannot ask if someone is a Democrat. Katie Porter, a Democrat who flipped an Orange County, California, district in 2018, thereby becoming the first Democrat to win the district and the first single mother ever elected to Congress © 2023 Kwiple.com
Democrats The question is always, 'How are you gonna pay for that?' We never sound credible as Democrats on that, and it shrinks up our ambitions. So our ambitions keep narrowing. 'Well, can we have just a little bit of child care? How about a tiny bit? Could we give a little help on student loans?' Let me make this pitch: Who's gonna show up to reduce student loan debt by 2%? I'm serious! Who's gonna show up on our side to fight for that? Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats So this is what I have become certain of:  Democrats spend too much time and energy imagining the policies that a capable government could execute and not rearly enough time imagining how to make a government capable of executing them. It is not only markets that have failed. Ezra Klein, New York Times, May 31, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Democrats State parties elect Democrats, plain and simple. Jane Kleeb, Harvest the Vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats Twitter is not America. In most of America, all they want, is to vote for someone who is not weird. Play to them and stop worrying that you're going to lose social justice warriors to Donald Trump. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Mahar, Oct. 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats What the US left appears to want is social democracy as understood by Robin Hood. It would tax astronomical wealth to fund popular programmes. It would not ask much more of the middle or even the upper middle classes. This does, however, put them at some odds with the social democrats of Europe, who tax more citizens more heavily. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democrats When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don't blame other things – Comey, Russia – you blame yourself.  Chuck Schumer © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats say How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high. Michelle Obama © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats say No, no. When they go low, we kick them. That's what this new Democratic Party is about. We're proud as hell to be Democrats. We're going to fight for the ideals of the Democratic Party. We're proud of our history. We're proud of our present. And we're proud of the future we can create for this country. Eric Holder © 2018 Kwiple.com
Democrats to 1%ers How do I love thee? Let me count the way$ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43” © 2015 Kwiple.com