To the left, Anthony Flaventa writes, should raise some Democrats who have won in Trump’s areas like Chris Deluzio, depicted here with his family in Western Pennsylvania.
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February 12 Elon Musk Tesla opened An expanded production facility for the production of batteries of $ 200 million, creating hundreds of new jobs. In China. Simultaneously the Doge Musk team worked overtime to stop paying already Federal investment For large battery manufacturers, mostly North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and many other states are. This hypocrisy should put the Democrats and Progressives in a high broadcast, on the contrary, asking: “Make World Health Organization Great again? “We have on each platform. Instead, the issue remains largely out of sight.
From the November elections, most liberals and progressives have overcome fear, cynicism and despair. The anti -democratic flow is usually inhuman actions taken by the Trump/Musk president, they perform our worst fears. So what do we do in return?
For most left -wing activists answer resistance. Resistance to the nominee of the Trump’s office; resistance to its mass deportations; Resistance to the constant leaving the critical federal agencies of Elon Musk. Trump’s devastating plans and actions shout at resistance – on the streets, courts and anywhere, we could have an influence. One example of the resistance platform is an indivisible “Practical Democracy Guide on the Border“The essence of their strategy is encapsulated in one short sentence:” Over the next two years “is” a complete sentence.
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Trump’s resistance and Musk are crucial. But the left is almost the only attention in the defense and defense of offering an equally convincing vision that resolves the grievances of rural communities and people of the working class is a serious mistake. If we do not oblige the economy and politics that serve daily people loudly and clearly, we undermine efforts to combat Trump and further secure the removal of the working class. Our indignation and resistance should cover the current treason of farmers, trade unions and workers and American manufacturers and small businesses.
The “resistance strategy”, which appeared in 2016, may have helped to highlight the ascent of Mag in the 2018 and 20 years, but nothing has done to stop the long -term, widely founded movement of people from the Democrats. Most likely, it has contributed to the already intensified sense of millions of voters, which democratic politicians and activists only care about the painful Trump; What we fight for the status -kua, not for making life better for such as them. As New York Times Reporters summarized their conversations with black and Latin American voters who went to Trump in 2024, “the terrible warnings of the Democrats about the threats of democracy felt much less convincing compared to the urgency of their own struggle for payment of rent.” The sloping of some of the most famous consultants and students on the left, it was an unexpected mistake that may cost Kamala Harris. We can’t afford to make this error again.
We need to make more than just fight the firefighters bad. Instead we need to highlight a positive vision of what we have duringEspecially in terms of the kitchen table for tens of millions of Americans who are struggling to reduce the ends.
These people believe that the system is rigged against them – and they are right. But the pressure of Trump/Musk anti-worker, anti-corporate action is the opportunity to offer their own plans to take advantage of the system most Americans hates.
How can the left move forward a progressive, working economic order if properly controlled by the house, the Senate and the White House? We can start by raising some of the Democrats who have won in the Trump areas, emphasizing their employees or the farmer and promise to resist corporate authorities. From Chris Delusio in Western Pennsylvania to Marie Gluzenkomp Perez in Rural Washington, to Pat Ryan in Hudson Valley in New York, the democratic tent includes people who know that the fight for the little guy against Housing on Wall -Rate capture either for Farmers’ right to profit by John Sea This is both the right policy and the policy that wins.
Secondly, Democrats and left-wing groups should be relentlessly pushing for a farm, work, small business and antitrust construction outlined on platforms, such as A rural new dealEither in certain bills such as Senator Amy Klobuchar “Act on Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement“Either representative roe khan “Child Care for America” Legislation. These laws and proposed politicians should become a benchmark against which economic, trade, labor and industrial politicians are constantly measured. In other words, we need to fight as hell to protect the policy and investment engaged in work, still in books and shouting from the roofs of China Musk, cleaning work voices in the National Council on Labor Relations, and the Crochet farmers to preserve the investments they made with the promise of federal compensation.
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Finally, we need to walk and chew gum, that is, to fight mass deportations, punitive bills against diversity, and more-while too Working on the transformation of institutions and organizations, we manage to better serve the largest and flexible part of the electorate: rural people and people without the highest degree. Fighting for federal staff is unfairly rejected for specific federal agencies, such as the consumer finance bureau that has returned billions of dollars back to consumer pockets, or USAID that saves life and helps build confidence in America. But when the left reflexively fights for the protection of each bureaucracy and continues to position itself as a “system” defender, our chances of mobilizing the wide base needed to defeat Trump and Musk are insignificant. As a Khan spokesman put in recent New York Times n-an ED“Alternative D Trump may not be the protection of institutes as they are. We must advocate a national update caused not by nostalgia for some gold past or simplified anti -system slogans, but by offering transformational solutions to ensure future prosperity for all Americans, inciting our bonds as citizens and healing our breaks.”
Trap Rating of approval This is the highest since then January 2017. All because millions of Americans believe that Trump tends the system that has been rigged against their decades. When Trump and Musk are thwarted, the Democrats will have to do more than just defend the institutions and norms that make up the system. We will need to stand with the Americans of the working class across the race, in cities and in rural areas; recognize the righteousness of your anger; And to fight specific actions, and for a transformation policy that brings back economic and political power to the hands of people.
