House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • @nomy@lemmy.zip
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    11 month ago

    Just another thing the Republican base is better at than the Dem base I guess, oh well.

    • djsoren19
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      11 month ago

      The difference here is that the Tea Party had funding, and picked up more funding from some previous GOP donors who wanted a more extreme party. There’s no funding for leftism in the U.S., and any current DNC donors aren’t likely to ever switch to funding it.

      • @nomy@lemmy.zip
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        21 month ago

        I agreed with all of that. If only we had our own shadowy groups of billionaires to fund us like the GOP constantly claims the left does.