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    Briefe an den Herausgeber: Die Demokratische Partei muss sich ein wenig ins Zeug legen. Kamala Harris ist nicht die Antwort

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    1. Silent-Resort-3076 on

      First of 3 letters:

      >To the editor: When President Trump sat out the 2017 White House correspondents’ dinner, Will Ferrell, as George W. Bush, ambled onstage at an alternative function, paced while smoking a cigarette and finally turned to the audience and asked, “How ya like me now?” to thunderous applause.

      >If this is former Vice President Kamala Harris’ intended approach as she is said to be “thinking about” a 2028 run for the White House, the public and whoever constitute the party elders of today’s Democratic Party should make clear, publicly and privately, that it won’t work (“Kamala Harris says she ‘might’ run for president in 2028,” April 10). Harris ran inept campaigns for the White House twice, failing each time to articulate a vision of the job and her qualifications for it beyond ambition, good looks and an often-inappropriate smile. Today, she is further burdened — and, frankly, disqualified — by her shameful silence as President Biden’s mental acuity deteriorated.

      >Democrats cannot win back the White House simply by being “not Trump.” Moreover, focusing on near-term (though important) issues such as gas and grocery prices is merely tactical. While that may win the hill, it won’t be enough to hold the hill. That will take chucking the party’s recent neck-up approach to “messaging” and governing, firing its pollsters and data analysts, and hiring in their place psychologists and sociologists to help in recognizing how woefully out of touch with Americans’ “gut” the party has become at its core.

    3. Ancient-Bat1755 on

      We dont need another candidate to lose

      She is a nice, cool lady even

      But we need someone with more awareness, passion and conviction that speaks to a broad audience, all of america

    4. Rare_Paper4473 on

      I remember, articles before the election trying to push her about how she was Democrat’s „Third most top choice“

      Which…you know….is a creative way to say, she wasn’t even people’s first or second choice.

    5. henningknows on

      I’m not voting for anyone who has run before in the primaries. We need new blood

    6. CroleyforCongress on

      This is why we have primaries. Folks need to vote as if their lives depended on it.

    9. Conscious-Demand-594 on

      The people will decide. This is why we vote. She is better than any RepubliKKKan. I prefer her to Newsom, but I have no problem voting for him in the general election. I prefer AOC over both of them. We will have quite a few good candidates to choose from.

    12. headbangershappyhour on

      Ah, the now right-wing editorial board of the LA Times publishing letters to sew discord amongst democrats two and a half years before the next presidential election (and 6 months before they face a midterm massacre)

    14. Crafty_Ish1973 on

      Imagine talking about 2028 before the midterms. People in the real world could never.

      Let’s get through the midterms and break the GOP majorities in Congress first, then figure out the rest in the primaries.

    15. topbossultra on

      End her career. I’m all for a woman in office, but I’m talking AOC, not Harris.

    17. pritikina on

      If she wins the Democrat primary i will vote for her in general election. Not sure who I’ll vote for in the primary but it probably won’t be Harris. She lost to Trump with all his baggage. I don’t see how she can beat any Republican nominee.

    19. All_Hail_Hynotoad on

      The fact that she’s even thinking about running in 2028 shows just how out of touch Dems like her are.

    20. Halfmass on

      America needs to stand on reality and stop moving to the drum beats of insanity and irrationality. The disingenuous need to be removed from the conversation because they aren’t able to actually add value to it. Scott Jennings and etc; they are given soap boxes and bullhorns to be taller and louder but they stand for nothing. A moral compass as real as the idea of America we were all sold from birth.

      We’re seven layers deep in a system that is broken. Led by people unable or unwilling to take the necessary steps… that’s best case because a not small portion is acting to benefit from the fall. Until a reasonable system of justice is established no person will seem right. Until there is a reckoning the steps forward are just instinctual.

      We can’t discuss the steps that need to be taken on here. It’s not going to immediately make things better. Most don’t want to admit it but some seem to have come to terms with it. It didn’t have to be this way but the lords doth need it all.

    21. Kjellvb1979 on

      I feel the media, and maybe the DNC, are really trying to push the „people are talking about another Harris presidential bid…“ angle while not mentioning they are the people talking that, while the rest of is don’t want another status quo neo liberal.

      I think they are seeing the success of folk like Mamdani, the strength of candidates like Planter, and others that have a less corporate, build from the foundation up, tax the rich, type of candidates, and want to stop that to go back to pre-trump era. An era that was still corrupt, but not as much, definitely not so in the open, that still was more representative of corporate America and the oligarchs then the average folk. We want a candidate that wants to work for the middle (what’s left of it), working, and lower classes, to improve their quality of life by making a government that actually works for the people. Lowering the price of basic necessities, housing, food, and will actually fight for some sort of universal healthcare.

      Sadly I don’t think the DNC has learned this lesson, to not offer up a corporate „moderate“ candidate. They well try the ole pull to the middle more, but the system is so far to the right, „moderate“ is essentially a 90s Republican, we don’t want that. We need a young, more progressive (in the sense they want to go away from a trickle down economics to a stregthen from the foundation up economy) minded, FDR new deal style of candidate. But again, they seem to already be trying to get us conditioned to accept their neo-liberal corporate owned status quo style of candidates. 😮‍💨

    22. BirkDaddy14 on

      The only thing that could possibly fuck up a Democrat winning in 2028 is sending Kamala. I say that as a staunch Trump and MAGA hater.

    23. MeatMullet on

      Clinton and Harris both lost. Move on. This party needs to get it’s shit together.

    24. Floreat_democratia on

      Dems: „Take your pick, Harris or Clinton.“

      Voters: „We want someone who represents us, not the billionaire donors aligned with Trump’s policies.“

      Dems: „Fine, how about Clinton or Harris?“

    25. thunderbootyclap on

      There’s 2 years and they REALLY can’t find anyone better than Harris or California guy? We’re doomed

    26. Nearby-Jelly-634 on

      It’s such a perfect illustration of how absolutely idiotic and up its own ass the DNC is that there’s even a thought about running the woman who got humiliated by a man who rapes women, got a million Americans killed by Covid, roots for Putin, and planned and executed a failed coup. Just braindead and almost as regressive as the GOP. Maybe they should stop letting octogenarians run everything.

    27. mrRabblerouser on

      They need to stop suppressing and ignoring the progressive wing of their party, which is the majority at this point. But the old guard won’t do that because it suppresses their ability to be bought and paid for by the highest bidder. Until we stop letting Washington establishment, focus group staffers and aids run the party, we’ll never have the fire that the base desperately wants to ignite.

    28. 0ttr on

      I think she would’ve been a great president. But we need someone more progressive at this point.

    29. metallicadefender on

      I think she’s alright and everything but she doesnt got the special sauce.

    30. ibflaubert on

      In game theory the optimal strategy is called “tit for tat.” 

      In a structured, multi turn game like when turns are governed by elections, when your opponent cheats, the optimal response is to cheat when it’s your turn.  

      When the tit for tat strategy is optimally employed, returning the favor keeps the opponents honest.  “When they go low, we go high” is nice for wall art or a coffee mug, but it’s a terrible game strategy.  Terrible.  That’s why we have 20+ years of republicans cheating.  Democrats aren’t showing up to fight.  Democratic candidates need to show up to fight and start this conversation.  Republicans know they’re cheating their neighbors, family members, friends and fellow Americans.  They don’t care.  We can’t elect a democratic majority that’s going to try to sensibly govern.  We need a democratic majority that’s going to fix the exploits that Republicans have gamed.  We need to elect democrats who are relentlessly focused on shrinking the powers of the executive office and reestablish checks and balances.

      In order for our allies and our enemies to trust America’s word, we need to make serious structural changes to engage our electorate and adequately represent every voter. And we need to elect a leaders who will reasonably shrink this unitary presidential theory.  

    31. elammcknight on

      Oh Jeez no she is not electable. I like her and think she is more than qualified but she just doesnt cut it with enough people to get elected.

    32. Kentaiga on

      I just don’t get why you would ever re-run a loser. The girl’s campaign was garbage and she deserves zero second chances. Run someone we actually like.

    33. Practical-Writer-228 on

      If Harris gets pushed by the party and ends up running again, after what we’ve been going through for the last year… I’m gonna lose it.

    34. Woozy_burrito on

      People don’t understand the democrats motives. They want Harris to run again because they *want* to lose. Pelosi and the rest of the democrat leadership are filthy rich. They benefit from GOP tax breaks. Why would they ever want to run on raising taxes on themselves or the companies that they invest in? They had their chance with Bernie and tanked his nomination on purpose.

    35. thealternateopinion on

      Get this fucking idiot off the stage before they blow a 3-0 lead with everything Trump is doing to shoot himself in the foot losing his entire base and moderate supporters. Kamala needs to get the fuck out of here. She was nobody’s choice in 2020 and she was a borderline DEI appointee as VP, and has no natural charisma or communication skills, which is absolutely essential.

    36. ReactionJifs on

      if the 2028 nominee isn’t AT LEAST a Diet Mamdani, we’re not having it.

      No more of this bullshit centrism

    38. Wayward_Whines on

      Primaries blah blah blah. The candidate who wins the primary is the one the dnc choses to win and throws all the cash and resources behind. Do we still really believe that if the playing field was level Hillary really would’ve beat Bernie? We vote D because it’s better than the R but it’s who they chose for us to vote for. They’re all on the same team.

    39. colondollarcolon on

      Could all the DNC power holders, from the 1990’s Era, in the DNC party and in office please all retire or just leave their positions? A whole new slew of young, new generation, Progressive faces in the DNC need to take the reigns and redesign the party. All the so-called old wisdom, beliefs, orthodoxy of the 1990’s DNC need to go way and be trashed forever.

    40. Ultra_Metal on

      I agree. She lost to Trump, the most unqualified candidate for President in US history. Let’s move on to someone else. People don’t just need to take into account a candidate’s record and character, but also their ability to win. Winning is everything in politics. Primary voters need to take this into account when they pick the party’s champion for the general election. It has to be someone who has a high chance of winning.

    41. Savings_Dealer6819 on

      She has already lost the election. Twice. Harris will never be president. Ever. The country has moved on.

    42. dogbytes on

      The majority of Americans are, maybe, ready to elect Democrats that are liberal and left leaning. But if there is not any sizable and quantitative change in the lives of most people, this country is doomed and will spiral out of control. Real change must be effected, starting day one when power is transferred. I believe this is our last chance to save this country and the Democrats better damn well be up to the challenge.

    43. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

      If Harris has been „thinking about“ running, then instead of going on book tours and preaching to the choir, she should have been out there building grassroots support, showing up for Democrats in tough races, traveling to various swing states and purple communities to inform voters and listen to their concerns, and among other things, developing a cohesive and more detailed vision for this country that addresses these ongoing concerns that are being ignored by the current administration.

      She has every right to run, but I think at this point, her presence in the primaries will do more harm than good to fresh candidates that might have a better chance at winning in 2028 and could actually deliver on reforms (and accountability for that matter).

    45. OkWorldliness5172 on

      I’m just going to go ahead and say it.

      I hate that this is the reality, but we as Americans already proved that we’d rather vote for a convicted felon, rapist, and child molester than a black woman, or a white woman for that matter, as president.

      The time is coming, but I don’t believe it’s here yet. It sucks, it’s not anywhere near fair, but we’ve got to deal with reality as it is.

      I fear that if the democrats put forward any woman, or gay man, or Jewish person, or person of color as their leading candidate, regardless of their qualifications, we’ll have a least another four years of republican misrule.

      I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, but I’m afraid that’s the reality.

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