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Dem think tanks advising lawmakers not to talk about Trump's military takeover of the US. Hakeem Jeffries folds like a bitch.

Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States, siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies while deploying federal troops to “liberate” Washington, D.C., where crime has been steadily declining. Democratic politicians are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation in the first place — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. Blue Rose Research, the firm led by Democratic establishment darling David Shor, produced a memo earlier this month digging into the effectiveness of various messages related to Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C. The firm advised that messaging around Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” was “highly unconvincing,” while messages that say Trump wants to “distract” from his damaging tariffs or horrifying Medicaid cuts were more effective. Meanwhile, Republican messaging about how Trump is clamping down on gang violence tested through the roof.

The Aug. 15 memo, a copy of which was reviewed by Rolling Stone, could explain, at least partially, why Democrats haven’t exactly been going to the mat over Trump sending the military into the nation’s capital, and threatening to do the same in other liberal strongholds. House Minority Leaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was asked on CNN on Sunday what the party’s plan is to fight the president sending troops into Chicago. He only offered that Trump has no authority to do this, and that he supports the men and women working in law enforcement. He also, as the Blue Rose memo suggested is effective, cast the federal takeover as a “distraction” from Trump’s unpopular policies. Jeffries didn’t seem too worked up about any of this, delivering his talking points with a complacency that certainly did not bely that the United States is currently experiencing a militarized dismantling of representative democracy.

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by Anonymousreply 16August 31, 2025 10:23 PM

All you have to do is watch MSNOW Morning Joe to understand how you criticize a slo-mo coup.

The mealy-mouthed opening followed by the facts, followed by the shocking conclusions is all rather RESTORATION polite.

by Anonymousreply 1August 26, 2025 5:06 PM

And never mention any of Biden's successes.

by Anonymousreply 2August 26, 2025 5:07 PM

bump

by Anonymousreply 3August 26, 2025 9:34 PM

Trump wants to create chaos, he gets off on it. He's severely mentally ill.

by Anonymousreply 4August 31, 2025 2:43 PM

Yes r4 and we need more prominent Democrats saying that, in that blunt way.

by Anonymousreply 5August 31, 2025 3:03 PM

Newsom gets it. He has talked plainly about how fascism is already here. Hakeem Jeffries is a wet noodle. That's not what is needed at the moment.

by Anonymousreply 6August 31, 2025 3:11 PM

The tariffs are more effective argument because our cities are so fucking violent crime has went over 50% since Dump’s military employ. Sad reality.

A year ago I watched one of those police cam videos. It wan’t exactly a police cam story but was included in the same YouTube channel or whatever that features them. Some middle aged dirty looking but able bodied man would walk into a DC gas station and shop like it’s Black Friday. On a weekly basis he would come in, fill up his backpack, and walk right out the store. He wasn’t even being covert. Sometimes he would tell paying customers to have a nice day lol. So one day the store owner got smart and had the doors locked. It was the perfect circumstance because there were no other patrons in the store. He was trapped until the cops got there. About a week after his arrest, this revealed in narration, the man came back to the store and apologized to the store owner and cashier. He said he gotten treatment for his drug addiction. The store owner offered him a job to clean up, in which the man said he had recently just gotten a job somewhere else. Can’t remember what. Anyways he came back to the store 2 weeks later and did the same shit all over again 😂 jajajajaja.

by Anonymousreply 7August 31, 2025 3:36 PM

Tariffs and WHITE COLLAR CRIME. Both are dollar based and both Trump excells at.

by Anonymousreply 8August 31, 2025 3:37 PM

Btw that is not example of violent crime but when liberals ignore minor crime it allows the prefect environment for violent crime tot ale place.

by Anonymousreply 9August 31, 2025 3:37 PM

You are just the best little German in the world ain't ya r7? Sure, they're establishing a military dictatorship, that will eventually be turned on everybody, but hey, there was this one shoplifter this one time I heard tell about ...

by Anonymousreply 10August 31, 2025 3:41 PM

R7 does "his own research" on YouTube

by Anonymousreply 11August 31, 2025 3:43 PM

The Democrats are ridiculous. The 21st century Weimar, about to allow Fascists to tear down and destroy the government, as happened nearly 100 years ago in Germany, leading to Hitler and brutal Fascism.

by Anonymousreply 12August 31, 2025 3:43 PM

R9 The only thing that has changed is that there are a million phone recordings going viral every day, that's it. These aren't things you see all the time in real life, you see it all the time on facebook and youtube. That's it.

by Anonymousreply 13August 31, 2025 3:43 PM

r11, we will ALL be doing our research online now that Trumpie shit canned the BLS.

by Anonymousreply 14August 31, 2025 6:23 PM

It’s infuriating. The Democratic Party is polling so badly right now because too many of its leaders are showing themselves to be ineffectual in the face of what is happening. If you’re not going to speak up and really confront the Trump Administration now, when exactly would you ever?

by Anonymousreply 15August 31, 2025 6:43 PM

God, they just have this instinct to listen to the wrong voices r15. Always in a state of terror that they might actually say something meaningful and shying away from standing for anything. It really is pathetic. Always "keeping their powder dry" and never ever fucking standing up and calling a fascist a fascist or doing anything at all that hasn't been turned into mush by fifteen committees.

by Anonymousreply 16August 31, 2025 10:23 PM
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