A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Tax relief for the large majority in sync with big tax hikes for the wealthy and large corporations.
65% : Potential remedies are clear: enhanced Medicare for All.
61% : Free public college.
45% : That largely explains their cold reception to the winner of New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, Zohran Mamdani, whose platform includes higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations along with free city buses, a rent freeze and city-run grocery stores.
43% : Midway through this year, a poll found that a large majority of Democrats wanted elected officials to reduce “corporate influence”, while 86% “said changing the federal tax code so wealthy Americans and large corporations pay more in taxes should be a priority”.skip past newsletter promotionSign up to Fighting BackBig thinkers on what we can do to protect civil liberties and fundamental freedoms in a Trump presidency.
39% : Harris ignored human decency and polling that showed far more voters would be likely to cast their ballots for her if she came out for an arms embargo on Israel.
37% : In February 2019, soon after settling back into the House speaker’s chair, Pelosi insulted supporters of the Green New Deal, referring to it in a media interview as “the green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”As the 2020 presidential election approached, the party establishment was eager to fend off another Sanders campaign.
33% : Also antithetical to the duo’s politics is Mamdani’s unequivocal support for the human rights of Palestinian people being subjected to Israel’s US-backed policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide.By refusing to endorse Mamdani, Schumer has been in tacit league with the billionaires furiously trying to prevent a popular democratic socialist from becoming mayor.

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