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Corporate Democrats are weaponizing identity politics to smear progressives | Arwa Mahdawi
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2026
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I don't like Schummer he was already a majority leader and he showed that he is a bad leader.
I don't know how good is Jefferies, but I don't like him either especially after he thought meeting with Kushner was a good idea. Definitively not good optics meeting with a civilian who has no position in government and is close to the center of the corruption Democrats supposed to investigate.
Having said that we should express our concerns but not force then to choose specific people. The leader is there to make sure all Democrats act as a single block.
You are forgetting that there are still many non progressive Democrats and the tough pay will be to have them vote together. It is not an easy job, and someone who would be good needs to be great at internal politics and be liked or respected by their colleagues.
This is why Pelosi is considered as one of the best speakers, because every bill she brought for a vote, passed. She definitively wasn't progressive, but she helped push some progressive changes.
If we force them to choose someone who isn't working well with test of them we will get a democratic version of Mike Johnson. Unable to pass nearly anything despite Republicans holding both houses and best at shutting down the Congress.
On Senate we had Van Hollen expressing interest in the position and we had other senators voicing support for him. This is good.
Though in House there is no one who did that. I mean people try to bring Pressley but she didn't do it officially. I guess she started a petition, but that is going the wrong way, she should talk privately with her colleagues whether they would support her abd then express candidacy. Starting with a petition to people implies that maybe she doesn't get along well, and if that's true that might be a disaster.