Two Democrats in blue state legislatures issued scathing assessments of the party's position after its crushing defeat in Tuesday night's election and offered suggestions for changes Democrats need to make.
“It was a disaster,” Connecticut Sen. Chis Murphy Posted in X. “The electoral map has been wiped out. The effective upper limit for Senate D is currently 52 seats. R is 62 seats.”
“It's time to rebuild the left,” Murphy wrote. “We are oblivious to the crisis of meaning and purpose that fuels MAGA. We refuse to make a big fight. Our tents are too small.”
In a long It ignores what you're feeling (lonely, helpless, overwhelmed).” And we head straight for uninspiring solutions (more roads! more drugs!) that do little to actually upset the status quo of who has power and who doesn't. ”
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Democratic Representative Pat Ryan (left) and Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (Getty)
Mr Murphy acknowledged there was a disconnect between everyday working-class voters and “elites” and suggested the party needed to be more open to candidates who reject the status quo.
“And when progressives like Bernie aggressively go after elites who oppress people, they are shunned as dangerous populists,” Murphy wrote. “Why? Maybe it's because true economic populism is bad for our country's upper income groups.”
“We cannot afford to fear conflict, especially with economic elites who have profited from neoliberalism. The right regularly picks fights with elites in Hollywood, higher education, etc. They are lukewarm in their fight against the wealthy and big corporations.'' ”
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November 6, 2024, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris acknowledges the election in a speech at Howard University in Washington, DC, and supporters react (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“True economic populism should be our tent pole,” Murphy told his followers.
“It's hard for the left,” Murphy wrote in the thread's final post. “Let's break away from neoliberalism once and for all. Let's listen to the voices of the poor, rural people, those at risk. Don't decide for them. Let's sell the fight. Let's embrace populism. Let's build a big tent. Let's stop being critical. But we are beyond small solutions.”
New York Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan, who won re-election in New York's 18th Congressional District despite a red wave sweeping through much of New York state, also proposed a post-mortem on social media and said that millions of Thousands of users saw it.
“First and foremost, if you're using the words 'moderate' or 'progressive,' you're completely missing the point,” Ryan said. I wrote to X. “It's not an ideological thing. It's about who will fight for the people and who will further empower and enable the elites.”
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Vice President Harris will deliver her presidential election concession speech on November 6, 2024. (AP/Jacqueline Martin)
Ryan explained his perspective on why he was able to win as a Democrat in a Republican-leaning atmosphere, saying, “We make affordability a top priority every day.”
“Most importantly, I told people exactly who was ripping them off and made it local. Billionaires and big corporations are making record profits. Meanwhile, the rest of us are struggling.”
Ryan said, “It's not enough to just throw these seemingly disparate policies at people. We have to articulate unifying principles and clearly tell people who's at fault. To me, that's about freedom and patriotism. And the blame lies with the same elites. Both political parties have been running this country for far too long.”
Various factions within the Democratic Party are blaming each other for the loss of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris to President-elect Donald Trump last week.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blamed the loss on Democrats who had “abandoned” the working class, prompting a rebuke from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“It should come as no great surprise that the Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, now realizes that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said. are angry and want change.” X announced the election results last week with a press release. “And they're right.”
Pelosi responded that her party: As Sanders claimed in a press release, he has not left the working class behind in favor of pandering to “the big interest interests and highly paid consultants who control the Democratic Party.”
“With all due respect, I have a lot of respect for him.” [Sanders]for what he stands for, but I don't respect what he said about the Democratic Party abandoning working class families. That’s where we are,” Pelosi said Saturday on the New York Times podcast “The Interview.”
Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report.
