If you read but one article today, may I suggest you check out the column by Moira Donegan in The Guardian US version: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/24/cuomo-trump-democrats-nyc-mayoral-race No pay walls. With laser focus, Donegan calls out and obliterates the nascent tendency of Democratic establishment leadership to help the fascists shift the Overton window to the far right. Among the clear-as-a-crystal-lake gems she proffers:
“…members of the Democratic establishment and party leadership seem to be settling on the lesson that they will take into the second decade of the Trump era: if you can’t beat him, imitate him.
It’s long been the impulse of the party to move right, chasing Republican victories by replicating Republican policy positions, and since their loss last November many Democrats have followed in this decades-old tradition, shifting their rhetoric still further rightward on border policy, crypto, foreign policy, trans rights and DEI. They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different policy vision for the country so much as they are offering a different stylistic one: the same austerity, cultural revanchism and inequality but in a more polite package…“
“Now the packaging, too, is changing. Having ceded much cultural and policy ground to Trump, and having thoroughly fled from their previous rhetoric endorsing social justice struggles for gender and racial equality, the party now seems to be looking to elevate not just its most conservative members, but also its most vulgar, cruel and combative ones, leaning into a masculinism that mimics the corruption, boorishness and irreverent disdain for the public of Trump himself. The Atlantic called it “Searching for the Democratic Bully”. We might also think of it as the abandonment of decency…”
In her article, Donegan lays out the devastating and disastrous Democratic establishment’s tactic of selling out the majority of us in service to a new politics of disdain for The People and handing the reins of destruction to oligarchs and their politicians. It is a brilliant piece and I hope you take the opportunity to read it.
