Politics Pelosi vs. "The Squad"

[PtldPlatypus]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...losi-isolates-them/ar-AAE962s?ocid=spartandhp

I try not to pay too close of attention to politics, because it's just depressing most of the time, but this is an interesting development.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admonished Democrats for personally attacking one another, warning in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that the party’s fracturing was jeopardizing its majority.


Without naming names, her target was clear: the four liberal freshmen known as “the Squad.”

“You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just okay,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democrats.

But “the Squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) — is convinced it is Pelosi who is being the bully.

Really looks like the old guard--Pelosi specifically, but I presume she's acting in concert with the powers that be in the party as a whole--are threatened by the burgeoning popularity of these young, hyper-progressive newcomers.

And not surprisingly, AOC has taken it from just a political issue to a racial one as well

“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post. “But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

In advance of the coming election season, this growing divide seems that it could become a significant issue for a party that seems to have all the momentum heading toward the 2020 race.

“A majority is a fragile thing,” [Pelosi] said, according to two people present for the remarks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private meeting, adding that members should show “some level of respect and sensitivity” to more moderate colleagues: “You make me the target, but don’t make our [moderates] the target in all of this, because we have important fish to fry.”

 

[Road Ratt]

Pelosi is almost as big of a doorstop to change in America as McConnell is. All they want is their parties compliance, just to put on a show of solidarity.

The left isn't the only party with internal problems. Just the other day Justin Amash left the GOP, though he isn't the first nor will he be the last during this administration. And let's not forget what Ann Coulter has to say about Trump: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...rgency_is_that_our_president_is_an_idiot.html

Ann Coulter: "The Only National Emergency Is That Our President Is An Idiot"

It seems to me that currently, the left and the right are both "fractured".

 

[Lanny]

Pelosi is the consummate strategist. I'm not going to second guess her.

 

[barfo]

Pelosi is the consummate strategist. I'm not going to second guess her.

I hope that's true. I certainly can't make out her strategy right now, but let's hope it's a good one.

barfo