{"id":32216,"date":"2025-02-03T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/why-are-the-democrats-so-spineless-moira-donegan\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:24:48","slug":"why-are-the-democrats-so-spineless-moira-donegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/why-are-the-democrats-so-spineless-moira-donegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic, and cowardly. That is because they are<\/p>\n<p>What does the Democratic party believe in? It\u2019s difficult to tell. In 2024, Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris ran a campaign of moderation, reconciliation, and emphasis on restoring institutional norms. This failed to capture much public attention when compared with the Trump campaign\u2019s carnival of grievance. In the months since their defeat, the Democrats have been confused, conflicted, and internally contentious over how to best proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been contradictory and ineffectual. The Democrats have alternated between declaring Trump a fascist and a would-be dictator, and congratulating themselves on peacefully handing over the reins of power to him; they have railed against his corruption and his subordination to the unelected South African billionaire Elon Musk, but have also made themselves available to cooperate with Musk\u2019s project to gut the federal bureaucracy and reshape it in his own interests, the initiative that has been moronically termed \u201cDoge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/feb\/03\/democrats-opposition-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic, and cowardly. That is because they are What does the Democratic party believe in? It\u2019s difficult to tell. In 2024, Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris ran a campaign of moderation, reconciliation, and emphasis on restoring institutional norms. This failed to capture &#8230; <a title=\"Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/why-are-the-democrats-so-spineless-moira-donegan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}