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Ed Luce of The Straits Times\/Financial Times recently argued<\/u>, like so many other conservative and liberal commentators do, that the Democratic Party was missing a golden opportunity in the upcoming midterm elections due to its internal squabbling, stalled approval ratings, and a failure to effectively address the causes of the 2024 election losses. <\/p>\n

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Like most media coverage of the Democratic Party divisions, Luce has misunderstood the substantive differences between the two democratic factions. Because they have actually been discussing and arguing about party power going forward in relation to why they lost in 2024.<\/p>\n

These media commentators do a disservice by highlighting the so-called radical and alienating rhetoric coming from the moderate or liberal mainstream Democrats and from the progressive socialists, or social Democrats, in relation to the radical right-wing or authoritarian rhetoric coming from the Trumpian administration. <\/p>\n

Like falsely inserting into these political contests that antifa is a \u201cdomestic terrorist organization,\u201d<\/u> and the Democratic Party has been taken over by \u201ccommunists,\u201d as the Outlaw-in-Chief has invoked more than 81 times in a two-week period<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a press conference at the Republican National Committee<\/u>: \u201cWe\u2019re fighting right now in Congress about whether we\u2019re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic or we\u2019re going to trade that in, dismantle the foundations and go down this dark road of death to communism.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems as though Trumpism is trying to pull off a Red Scare 3.0, and the question becomes: are the American voters as stupid as the Speaker, the Racketeer-in-Chief and his crew of miscreants?<\/p>\n

Then again, these \u201csocial realities\u201d about communism, antifa or the Democratic Party are about as real as Trump having won the 2020 presidential election or that January 6th was a nonviolent patriotic sit-in.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Jim Messina, the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff who served as campaign manager for President Barack Obama\u2019s successful 2012 re-election and is often referred to by the media as the White House\u2019s Fixer, on Morning Joe\u2019s Tuesday airing this week was making the case for why Democrats should be sticking with moderate rather than progressive democrats.<\/p>\n

This framing or narrative problem by \u201cold guard\u201d Democratic operatives and by most mass media commentators is that, fundamentally, they cannot wrap their heads around democratic socialism as a legitimate alternative to neoliberalism or as having nothing in common with the former USSR or other highly centralized and contemporary authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, these media outlets or platforms have been ignoring, for the most part, that these democratic socialists or progressive democrats in the U.S. have everything in common with the Social Democratic parties of Western and Northern Europe that emerged between 1945 and 1960 during the \u201cGolden Age\u201d of social democracy. And then these social democrats were accentuated by a second wave of dominance in the 1990s after the reunification of Germany and the breakup of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Today, these Social Democratic parties remain in place despite the wannabe authoritarian-like political parties that have emerged on the right and are trying to kill democratically administered governments, not unlike the efforts of President Trump and his loyalist minions who are trying to do the same in the United States.<\/p>\n

Winning the \u201cWar on Crime\u201d or Losing the Wars on Authoritarianism & Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to the Trumpian 2.0 \u201cwar on crime,\u201d nothing could be more of an oxymoron than the political actions and talking points of the deputy to the former Attorney General Pam Bondi \u2014 now the acting and nominee for the permanent post of AG \u2014 Todd Blanche. As a steward of the Justice Department for the past 18 months and as the legal \u201cfixer\u201d for the Fraudster-in-Chief since he became Trump\u2019s criminal defense lawyer in April 2023 ahead of his arraignment in the New York hush-money case, here is the non-exhaustive record of Todd \u201cCarte\u201d Blanche and his lawless \u201cwar on crime\u201d on behalf of the reconstituted Department of Retribution:<\/p>\n