To Confront Their Failures, Democrats Must Confront Obama

About this episode

Sasha Stone discusses the failures of the Democratic Party and their continued allegiance to Barack Obama.

For the last five years, since I left the Democratic Party, I’ve been waiting for any sign that they’ve emerged from the Doomsday Bunker at long last, regained their perspective, come back to the real world, and are finally prepared to build a future for all of America because a house divided against itself cannot stand. The Democrats were booted out, not once but twice. In between, they had the chance to show us all that they were on the better side. If Trump were so terrible, what could they offer in return? The problem is that they’re still the party of Barack Obama, and to criticize any of it, to change course on anything is an affront to him and all that he built. To confront their failures, they must confront his. And they won’t do that. They failed to protect the border, the children, the workers, the families, and the businesses. They failed to keep us safe and failed to include us all in the American dream, choosing to focus instead on their wheel of oppression, which has now landed on illegal immigrants. True, no political party has amassed as much power as they still have. It was power they did not want to lose. I know. I was there. I didn’t even realize there was…

People in this episode

Host: Sasha Stone

Topics covered

• Democratic Party
• Barack Obama
• political failures
• American dream
• working class
• Trump

Keywords

• Democrats
• Obama
• politics
• failures
• American dream
• working class
• Trump

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democratic Party

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