NY Times column hits 'stubborn,' 'ruinous optimism' of Democratic leaders, says they lack sense of urgency
Hanna Panreck - Yesterday 4:11 PM
ANew York Times column called out the "gerontocratic leadership of the Democratic Party" for lacking urgency, the ability to act and for continuing to "act as if American politics is back to business as usual."
Author Jamelle Bouie criticized President Biden's praising of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the National Prayer Breakfast and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., statement from May that called for a "strong Republican Party" that "cared about a right to choose" and the environment.
"Of course, the ideologically moderate Republican Party that Pelosi seems to want resurrected was largely dead by the time she entered national politics in the late 1970s, bludgeoned into submission with the notable help of Ronald Reagan, among other figures," Bouie wrote.
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He noted historian Jefferson Cowie's argument, who believes the "New Deal era" was a "sustained deviation from some of the main contours of American political practice, economic structure, and cultural outlook."
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