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To my democrat friends: Just a thought, but you might want to force out the leadership of your party right now. I mean before the 2026 election cycle.
You will lose some huge 'campaign money' donors, not that it did you any good this cycle. You will lose lots of the dying legacy media coverage and puff pieces, not that it did you any good this cycle. You will lose lots of Hollywood celebrity party invites, not that that it did you any good this cycle, but you need to clean house.
You need a party who will listen to its own voters and let them nominate a candidate. You would have had Bernie Sanders in 2016, and while he would have lost, it would have been an honest election. Who you want, against who the other side wants.
If the democrat machine would have been honest about Biden's mental capacity this time around, and convinced him not run (or forced him out like they did this time) in late 2023, it would have been better for the democrats. Let the party have an open, honest primary and see who they pick. Do you think you folks would have have picked Vice President Harris? She never made it to the first caucus in Iowa in 2020. She's a terrible candidate.
You might have had JFK JR as you candidate. That would have been a very different election. Tulsi may have stayed a democrat, even run with him. Joe Rogan would have endorsed him and swung a huge number of young men to that side. However, the DNC machine would never allow that to happen.
The very small group of elites who run the DNC machine want only 'trusted' people to run. People who trust those elites, not the American people.
Unlike the DNC, with their 'Super Delegates' and their total control of the nomination process, the GOP let their voters decide.
Sometimes you have to lose badly to shake up your leadership. The McCain 2008, and Romney 2012 nominations were the last ones controlled by the establishment GOP. They got their asses kicked.
In 2016 the people in the GOP, and a good number who didn't have a voice, found a voice. A super loud, obnoxious, voice, but one that is 100% himself, for better and sometimes worse.
You may not love your next candidate, but if they have a track record you like, and they have actually made something work, or fixed a broken system, that should be your candidate. They may not look like what your party wants.
They may be a 38 year old Pacific Islander tech guru, or 65 year old Inuit Eskimo who helped turn around her village, then community, then built a thriving business, or a some Iowa pig farmer legislator who loves his family, community and country, and has written some really good laws about farming labor. It maybe some governor, (do not pick Newsom) or someone who loves to turn things upside-down and make them grow and thrive; pick one of them.
Republicans already had this battle in 2016. The RNC hated Trump and battled against him. The establishment republicans didn't want Trump. I didn't want Trump, but we got Trump.
He turned out to be better then all the 'trusted' republicans we had since Reagan.
