Since Trump was elected, many critics, advisors and democratic elites have indicated that the time has come Decline. It is assumed that the increase in activity in 2016-2020, which included the “anti-Trump” resistance prompted Democrats In radical situations, which voters rejected … in 2024. They suggest those who believe in radical concepts such as “all people are created”. Now it is fought less difficult.
I call these people to “collapse”, because they seem to believe that it is the fight against Trump’s fight flaw He was elected again. But this is a mistake. The “Resistance” won in 2020, overcoming Trump. Anyone who wants to win this battle must be understood for good Why The competence – which includes everyone fromCritics Yasha Monk for the minority of the Democratic Parliament minority Hakim Jeffrez– This is correct.
The sponsor is not new. It represents the same moderate wisdom that has existed since the president Bill ClintonIn the 1990s, the Trinity ended the 40 -year democratic majority. To admit that Trump has two times defeated them by beating the middle Hillary Clinton In 2016 and Kamala Harris In 2024 it will be the loss of credibility forever.
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This also means recognizing the real way to make a change no By leaving the elite they come out of the contestants, its supporters tolerate the companies, but the full Hanafi demands by ordinary people on everything we need not only alive, but thrive.
When you remember the anti -samer resistance, you may think about the big pictures: the registration determination protests in Women’s march and George Floyd uprisingsThe electoral victories that were excluded Republicans and Caffeine Democrats have been replaced by more progress, and in hundreds of cases, Democratic socialist actorsEnhancing the legislation is much more ambitious than Clinton presented.
But on Earth, what was clearer was the belief that woke up in millions: We can make a change Fighting for moreDo not settle for less.
This increase in the political energy that was left to the extent that the democratic competitors of the presidency in 2019 designed the democratic socialism. Bernie SandersSupport a set of economic policies such as Medicare for all, a new green deal, and the protection of expanded workers. until Joe Biden moved to the leftHitting Trump. (Against Trump, the resistance is 1/1; Al -Kifah 0/2)
What happened next is what In reality Trump’s return was able to return. Biden Democrats clearly failed to fight For the demands of the “resistance” that brought them to power. In the organization on the ground, I saw directly how the sponsor stopped the energy that threatened them or the donors.
Take another Bogman, a group of non -profitable organizations that Matt Yallisas calledGroups“Claiming that these organizations withdrew the Democrats to become very extremists for ordinary people to support them, and thus was elected Trump.
Anyone involved in the main policy battles knows that this is reverse What happened. During 2019, organizations such as the sunrise movement made their name with the requirements of new, comprehensive deals and very confrontations against Republicans and Democrats alike. But with Biden in his post, the powerful donors pushed the member to Conflict tone For the purpose of Work with the administration. This removes the weapon of the strong organization Volunteer energyBy pressing popular activists to become Administration directed Pressure groups. It is far from the only case.
When anyone talks about the leftists “stay at home”, remember that he was a blind person He said “Stay at home.” Through the strings of the committed activists and rescue the new voters who beat Trump in 2018, 2020 and 2022 I got exactly what they wanted.
The protests against Trump’s inauguration last month were smaller than 2017, but Thousands of people who attended Throughout America, it has less illusions after eight years, after Democrats missed an opportunity to show a real alternative to the working class.
As Trump’s strength is the seizure of corrosion, there is hope. Traveling to the country as a co -leader of the Democrats in America (DSA), I hear a The common direction In every conversation. What people want Fighters. People who will fight for them, their families, their colleagues and their societies.
For this reason, democratic enthusiasm collapses, critics decrease from expectations, and institutions such as DSA, with no financiers from companies to respond to, continued to grow.
While Biden Abandoning a month during his mandate The minimum wage is more than $ 7, Seattle DSA won More than one dollar20The highest in the country.
while The percentage of democratic participation declined Even in deep blue cities, DSA classes from Los Angeles to Louisvillefrom San Antonio to whoIt grows in record numbers.
While Senator Raphael Warroc Take his roots in Martin Luther King, the diocese of the son by Voting to pass One of the biggest Civil rights insults In generations, DSA members replaced the job operator with a COP organizer stoppedGabriel Sanchez. In the back courtyard of Biden, Dillauer, Civil Representative Wilson Anton He was re -elected after the protest constantly American military support for Israel. In New York City, the popularity of Islamic democracy, Zahran Mamdani He turned the race against Trump’s loving mayor Eric Adams upside down.
Do not let the vaccine support you. The resistance did not go “very far away”. He didn’t go away enough. The only way to win is The struggle for our rights is the best we canFor the largest possible. We know that he works, and so do.
Ashik Siddique is the co -chair of the Social Democrats in America.
The views expressed in this article are a writer.
