Summary
US Senator Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “the distraction of the day.”
“Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn’t deserve to lead,” Van Hollen said.
He visited El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia, whose deportation the Trump administration called an “administrative error.”
“Right now, we have a lawless president… who is ignoring the order of the Supreme Court of the United States to facilitate [Abrego Garcia’s] return.”
You realize you are talking about meaningful reform in the DNC in preparation for the 2032 elections, right? I wonder if there will even be a DNC by then.
No. This is all about the 2028 elections, which the non-fascists desperately need to win. But the DNC has been using the same “next one up” philosophy that gave us John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. (The one exception was in 2008, when Barack Obama stole Hillary’s crown out from under her).
If things at the DNC go the way they have been going, Newsom has the nomination already, and the primary will just be a formality just like all the other ones (except for 2008) have been .
Oh, I misunderstood you, I took that the “nomination is his to lose” to mean that the nomination is his so he can lose the general, and you expect that might trigger reform after 2028.
To be honest, the DNC can either clean house or die at this point. What I expect to happen is that it will slowly wither away through like 20 more years of being “the only viable opposition party”.
I see some hope in the progressive wing taking over and actually starting to fight, and the pendulum to swing back very hard on Trump et al. But those are just hopes at this point.