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[JBTaurus83]

1. I'd say ineffective

He’s very intelligent and I don’t have any major issues with his voting record. I just feel that a lot of the leaders in the party are not understanding the moment and being more innovative.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. I agree. We need guts like Pelosi used in that position.

[displacedvermoter]

27. She annointed him her successor

I believe. She likely knew what he was like.
Perhaps she misjudged him?

[Rebl2]

40. I agree

She seemed to know how to get things done.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I'd say your use of "Democrat primary" is out of place on this board...

and no, Jeffries is not ineffective.

[AStern]

12. Democrat as in have Jeffries primaried by another DEMOCRAT rather than a DEMOCRATIC candidate

Jefferies has done nothing to push back and seems passive rather than aggressive.

[Hekate]

17. Don't quibble when caught bashing a Democratic office-holder. Stick to your guns.

[Hekate]

21. Regarding your OP, still false, but that's just my opinion

[AStern]

22. You're allowed to be wrong

nt

[Torchlight]

75. Sounds serious

Good luck!

[Cha]

50. It's AOC's and My Opinion, too.. Mahalo!

"AOC: 'Republicans have been getting walloped by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer'"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220695607

[sheshe2]

33. "Too afraid to endorse a Democratic candidate from his district"

[Cha]

63. AOC who is in thte House Disagrees with you.

"AOC: 'Republicans have been getting walloped by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer'"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220695607

[CrispyQ]

78. Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective.

Democrat candidate sounds ignorant. And on this board, you will be called out on it.

[betsuni]

4. It's Democratic not Democrat and why is he an ineffective Representative for his district?

If you're talking about leadership, party/caucus members vote, no primaries.

[BeyondGeography]

9. In that context "Democrat" is correct

[AStern]

13. Thank you

It is correct.

[bigtree]

18. 'Democratic primary' or 'Democrat party primary'

...certainly not 'Democrat primary'

Google Democrat primary and get back to us with the results.

Including results for democratic primary.
Do you want results only for democrat primary?

[BeyondGeography]

23. Seriously?

In the sentence, “Democrat” refers to the person who would challenge Jeffries in a primary. That would be a member of the Democratic Party, aka a Democrat.

[bigtree]

31. it's not the proper usage in the political sense.

...it's just not.

[FoxNewsSucks]

57. It is proper use. Go to the OP and read the whole sentence.

It is NOT referring to a "Democrat Primary". As was explained to you, it is referring to an individual politician who would run in a primary against him. A member of the Democratic Party IS a Democrat.

[thought crime]

68. They are using "primary" as a verb.

[padfun]

80. Are you a Democratic or a Republican?

It's used like that.

[Hekate]

34. Were you around when Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House? He started the deliberately ungrammatical use of...

…Democrat this and Democrat that, and it took a number of years, but finally the news media picked it up permanently, and then some Democrats themselves. He also started saying “Democrat” and “liberal” with a tone of contempt, until finally I realized he had turned it into a dirty word (like for instance using someone’s religion as a dirty word, and you know what I mean) .

Lest we think this was in any way inadvertent or harmless, remember that he was the one who wrote “Language as a Key Mechanism of Control” for GOPAC.

[BeyondGeography]

38. Yes

I remember the moon landing too.

[SocialDemocrat61]

25. I think people misunderstand

the job of the House and Senate minority leaders. It is simply to run those caucuses. That's it. We are not a Parliamentary system where the head of the minority caucus is the leader of the party or the opposition.

[betsuni]

35. Yes, and reasons why leaders are supposedly ineffective are vague: not standing up to things or meeting the moment

or not having the right personality.

Must be upsetting to put all one's eggs in the DEMS CAVE basket so one can huff and puff that they're never ever never this time I'm serious giving money to those awful Dems again and hint at a personal DEMEXIT and then it doesn't happen.

[Cha]

44. Oh & Please see Post 43.. AOC evidently knows MORE

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about what's going on in the House than those who are NOT.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20695666

[betsuni]

45. Just saw that, thanks for posting it here. The job is keeping Democrats united, Jeffries and Schumer are effective!

[Bettie]

5. Before he entered leadership he was effective

now, he seems to be afraid of his shadow, like Schumer.

So, ineffective, but he could choose to be more effective.

I think the biggest problem is that a lot of elected Democrats spend too much time trying to be polite and "nice". They are stuck in an older social contract, where both sides would work together to get things done. It is not that way anymore, Republicans do not compromise nor do they cooperate.

[leftstreet]

26. +1 They get very "90s"

[John Coktosten]

6. True

[Ping Tung]

8. Politics as usual.

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
Thomas Paine

[Karadeniz]

10. Ineffective..

[BannonsLiver]

11. Suboptimal

I’m feeling diplomatic today.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. He speaks for the party but the party doesn't have the votes.

Show us a minority leader who is effective.

[Hekate]

15. False. And the word is "Democratic"

[bigtree]

16. do tell

...

[betsuni]

28. Seems to be about endorsements. Oh well, sometimes matchmaking is ineffective.

[Celerity]

74. The OP used 'Democrat' correctly.

They said:

it would be nice to have another Democrat primary and then replace him

It would be incorrect to say:

it would be nice to have another Democratic primary and then replace him.

Same for the sentence:

I am a Democrat.

It is not:

I am a Democratic.

[CrispyQ]

81. The dictionary says democrat is a noun not an adjective, so democrat primary would be incorrect.

Democrat Party, democrat candidate, are all incorrect.

OTOH, language is a living thing & evolves, so eventually dictionaries might accept democrat as an adjective, simply because people use it that way. There was a time when the word despicable had the accent on the first syllable, but after Daffy Duck it's now more accepted to put the accent on the second syllable. That's a matter of pronunciation, though, not usage, so who knows about the word democrat. However, I'll never use democrat as an adjective, even if it becomes acceptable.

If you like the history of language, there's a wonderful book if you can find it, called "There is no Zoo in Zoology" by Charles Harrington Elster.

[Celerity]

82. You're misreading the OP's sentence. They correctly used Democrat as a noun. This is basic English syntax. I fail to see

what the confusion is.

They said:

it would be nice to have another Democrat primary and then replace him.

meaning another Democrat (Democrat used as a noun) would 'primary and then replace' him

[MadLinguist]

83. Diagramming the OP sentence in agreement

It would be nice [s to [vp have [s [np another Democrat] [vp primary and then replace [him]]]]]

S=sentence
VP= verb phrase
NP = noun phrase

You can more easily discern that "another Democrat" is the noun subject of the verb "primary " in this sentence:

It would have been nice had another Democrat primaried and then replaced him

Another way to see that "Democrat" in the OP is a noun functioning as the subject of the verb "primary" is to pluralize it in this version of the sentence:

It would be nice to have a slate of Democrats to primary and then replace him

You can also know that "primary" is being used as a verb (and therefore "Democrat" is the noun subject) is to notice the conjoined verb phrase "primary and replace him". The direct object of both verbs is "him" and the subject is "Democrat"

What would it have been nice to have?
Another Democrat to primary him
Another Democrat to replace him

[Patton French]

20. Why is he "really bad at his job"? Please elaborate.

NT

[sheshe2]

30. ...

[lapucelle]

66. See post 7.

[sheshe2]

67. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Patton French]

73. Indeed...

[QueerDuck]

42. It's clickbait... it's meant to divide and create friction and arguments. A drive-by.

[Patton French]

72. Clearly

NT

[fujiyamasan]

24. I'm not sure why he should necessarily be primaried

But I am having second thoughts as to whether he should be the minority leader, or if Dems win the house, Speaker.

[poli-junkie]

32. Small quibble about Jeffries:

He speaks with an affected unnatural cadence — like he’s reciting a poem all the time. It’s kinda annoying.

[QueerDuck]

41. I think it's engaging. It makes me want to listen closely. He's not quite as animated or expressive as a preacher...

but I think that there may be some influences there from MLK.

[SSJVegeta]

36. There is currently insufficient information to properly and completely answer that question.

[Blues Heron]

37. What a douchebag move

That would be

[QueerDuck]

39. Oh goody! 🍿 This will be fun, as always.

But I wonder... WHY does he need to be primaried to be replaced? If he's so "ineffective" as you claim, then wouldn't those who voted for him to be the Minority Leader simply choose someone else?

[Cha]

43. "AOC: 'Republicans have been getting walloped by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer'"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220695607

I'm betting AOC knows More about what's going on in the House of Representatives than those who aren't..

[Hekate]

46. Mahalo, Cha. I was just about to post that. How about it, Dem bashers?

Or are your minds totally made up? We are not a parliamentary form of govt, and our system is what it is. Even so, there’s this info that AOC Herself Herself says that the “Republicans are getting walloped by Jeffries and Schumer. “

[Cha]

47. Mahalo to you, Hekate.. the AOC one Needs

lots of K & R... We need to get the Word out as you know!

[betsuni]

48. Uh oh, WORLDS COLLIDE!

[W_HAMILTON]

59. AOC has turned! The Establishment(tm) got to her!

Both parties are the same, so let's continually fuck over the one of them that most closely aligns with us!

"After Hitler, our turn!" -- quote from Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany that was arrested by the Gestspo, put in solitary confinement for over a decade, and then shot dead on Hitler's orders.

[W_HAMILTON]

49. Tell us *specifically* what you think an """effective""" Minority Leader would be doing...

...that Jeffries is not.

PS - If Jeffries were to lose his primary, his district loses the highest ranking Democrat in the House. The primary winner will basically be at the bottom of the totem pole. Do you think that benefits his district?

[QueerDuck]

64. You are correct... and the fantasy rebellion and revolution,

is absurd. It's performative. It's virtue signaling to try and shame our best and experienced and loyal Democrats for not behaving like TV pundits or comedians. That's not "leadership"... It's not what men like Jeffries are elected to do.

[Joinfortmill]

51. Not sure, but he certainly APPEARS ineffective.

[Cha]

70. Not according to AOC who is actually in the HOUSE

and Sees our Leaders UP Close..

"AOC: 'Republicans have been getting walloped by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer'"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220695607

[Bread and Circuses]

52. Unfortunately , I am dissatisfied with the D leadership

[doc03]

53. Don't like to criticize Democats other than

Chuckie and Fetterman. But there are some that would be better than Jeffries.

[Quiet Em]

54. False.

Jeffries is respected and supported by the Democratic House Caucus.

[JustAnotherGen]

56. And the Black Caucus

[JustAnotherGen]

55. No

They can duke it out for Speaker of The House.

[mvd]

58. Not really ineffective but maybe could do better

These Repukes are not normal and we have to adjust.

[stonecutter357]

60. Democratic !!

[stonecutter357]

61. lol True or False trump is a pig ?

[Ars Longa]

62. My Obsevation: He seems a good Rep for his district.. He's a good guy...

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But, he is not the leader of the Dems we need at this moment
He's seems to be an an Old Guard, Old School, Ultra-Cautious,
Dem Politician, quite reluctant and ill-equiped( like Schumer),
to come to grips with a Fascist/Mafioso onslaught of our
Democracy.I would much, much rather see Swallwell or AOC...
(In the Senate, Murphy or Kelly)

[republianmushroom]

65. False

[LudwigPastorius]

69. My thoughts are that Rep. Jeffries was unanimously reelected House Minority Leader in November, 2024 by his peers.

This, after holding the job for the previous two years.

The House Democrats obviously don't think that he is ineffective. If they change their minds, they'll have a chance to vote for someone else in a little over a year.

[Greybnk48]

71. This is tiresome. Jeffries is as effective as the corporate owned MAGA lovin' media will allow him to be.

We are at a heavy disadvantage and he's doing as good as anyone would do under these constraints.

My two cents: He should, however, bump his rhetoric down to a 4th grade level and he would likely be more effective when he is allowed to speak. He's too sophisticated.

[lostincalifornia]

76. Time to add to my ignore list for divisive posts

[IcyPeas]

77. Sometimes we need a tenacious bull dog. Like now.

[yorkster]

79. Don't agree with the sentiment re Hakeem Jeffries,

but Democrat is correct in this case because primary is used as a verb. Author of the op believes there should be a Democratic primary in which a Democrat would primary Jeffries.
Again, I disagree with the premise re Jeffries abilities.