'Demand more': WaPo opinion writer won't apologize for making Dems 'uncomfortable'

Examples of Democrats' "hypocrisy," according to Hamid, include, preaching tolerance and inclusion "while marginalizing pro-life Democrats, talking down to Black and brown voters, ignoring religious conservatives and dismissing the growing ranks of Americans who felt the party had become too radical on issues such as gender identity. On policy, what was once the working-class party chose to prioritize things such as college debt relief, which disproportionately benefits the wealthy."

Uhhh. I'm with you on the idea that Democrats aren't living up to their ideals but ensuring that people can make indevidual health decisions on abortion, respecting trans folks and ignoring conservative voices as the liberal party aren't really compelling examples. I don't love the way dems have handled social issues, I think they played into the culture war/identity politics games, but it's not inconsistent with the parties' ideals, it's just that their particular approach has often been hollow and unproductive.

And college debt relief is still a good thing, they just should have done more along side it. Wild that that's the chosen example of catering to the rich. College students aren't the rich and powerful, they're kids... who just started life and are being saddled with lifetimes of debt...

You can do things to help them not be buried in debt for the rest of their lives and help other groups

Billionaires moving mountains to shift the Overton Window. Near-complete control of the mainstream media to convince the people that their dwindling paychecks, impending layoffs, growing credit card balances, and impossible costs of living are somehow caused by anything other than the greed of the parasite class.

Remember WaPost is compromised since purchase by Bezos.

Too bad WaPo is fascist trash now

If only the WaPo and other media outlets spent even 10% of the effort they waste on Democrats to report on the MAGA fascists Trump wouldn’t be in office.

I’m harder in Dems because I expect more from them. - This may be true but it’s also part of a problem. If we keep saying “doesn’t matter how we criticize republicans they won’t change anything” then we hear less criticism about them and they hear less so they think there is no consequence.

"I’m more critical of Democrats precisely because I expect more from them."

It literally reads like blabla DOUBLE STANDARDS blabla.

The grand irony of the Democratic establishment morphing into the very elitist caricature they once railed against is almost poetic. Preaching inclusivity while sidelining pro-life voices and Black voters? Classic. They’ve abandoned the working class to chase the approval of coastal thinkfluencers, swapping union halls for Ivy League debt seminars. Hypocrisy as performance art.

Obsessing over Trump’s buffoonery is a distraction tactic, a way to avoid confronting their own rot. Virtue-signaling about January 6th while ignoring the quiet authoritarianism of their own policy failures. Rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship, but with more hashtags.

If making Democrats uncomfortable is the price of honesty, then Hamid’s doing the Lord’s work. A party allergic to self-reflection deserves its slow-motion irrelevance. Keep squabbling over pronouns while the world burns.