As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, it’s often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administration—and other Democratic leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution and respect for parliamentary safeguards and procedures to hobble ambition, frustrating voters and making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance as our civic cure-all.
This reading has now picked up the endorsement of a surprising group: A large bloc of former high-level members of the Biden administration.
The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesday—with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agencies—that seeks to diagnose the administration’s governing mistakes and failures. The report, provided in advance to The New Republic, may be the most ambitious effort involving Biden officials to determine what went wrong and why.
In the report, Biden officials extensively identify big failings in governing and in the execution of the politics around big decisions—but with an eye toward creating the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda. The result is a kind of proto-blueprint for Democratic governance to show that it can work the next time the party has power.
“We must reckon honestly with how we got here and why the American public has been so frustrated with these institutions for so long,” Roosevelt Institute president Elizabeth Wilkins writes in the report’s introduction. “The rising authoritarianism we see today shows us the stakes.”
Name one instance of a fuckin tankie instigating real world violence in the US. Like, I’m a proper leftist and despise tankies as their general worldview is as reductive and stupid as libertarians, but there are no tankies wielding any sort of left wing influence. Certainly nothing remotely affiliated with liberals or the Democratic party. There’s less tankies in America than trans people. They’re not the problem, they’re just annoying. The problem is half the country, which would probably self-describe as liberal in context, couldn’t tell the difference between Trump and Harris.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/37226752
Though I suppose you absolutely needed an example of “in the USA”, but they’re in this very thread saying that voting doesn’t work cuz boTh SIdEs and that we need a bloody revolution. There is also CPUSA who have a literal weapons stockpile.
So what real world violence was instigated? We all know ml are nutcases but they have no impact or influence.
That’s like believing the Russian Troll Farms had no impact in 2016.
So no real world violence was actually instigated then. I asked for a specific example because that’s what you said. You failed to provide an example and deflected to Russian interference in our elections, which has been definitively proven but isn’t really relevant to the discussion at hand. Conflating tankies online with the actual nazis running the federal government is ignorant in no small part to the fact no tankie wields any real world influence, while the nazis in the white house do.
Tankies are instigating violence, whether effective or not, and proving it was or was not itself is a herculean task. Nothing I’ve said was wrong or a lie.
What violent incident was instigated by tankies? Name the specific violent action that made the news that was instigated by tankies in America? One specific example. Just one. We all know there’s dozens instigated by right wing fundamentalists, yet you equate the two so there must be an equal number of incidents by tankies, otherwise you’re just inventing an imaginary problem and you certainly wouldn’t do that, would you?
You’re talking in goddamn circles.
No, you’re just incapable of providing a single example of this violence you claim is instigated. Comparing isolated tankies in a mostly dead corner of the internet to the literal nazis running the US federal government is just incredibly fucking stupid and exhibits a profound disconnection from reality.