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In reply to the discussion: Just saw Kamau Bell on CNN still defending the phrase "defund the police". [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)in a non-presidential election year, by the Democrats, the President's party historically loses ground in Congress during mid-terms. We ended up losing most of the most marginal seats because Republicans turned out for the President, or for those who didn't vote for President, they turned out for their party when they sat things out 2 years ago. I don't understand why so many are surprised by this, many of those seats were destined to only be Democratic temporarily anyways.
Instead of blaming a few congress people, perhaps blame the Democratic party apparatus itself, especially at local and state levels, that has a much larger effect than a single phrase does. During Obama's terms, the Democrats lost ground on the state and local level, thousands of positions ceded to the Republican party, and we need to regain that ground, its going to take years to play catchup. Look at how damaging that has been to us due to the Republicans being in control for not one, but now two censuses.