“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris said. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”
May be unpopular opinion but I think this strategy they’re going for of appealing to Republicans may work to get real change.
In the past we’d offer an olive branch and the republicans would burn the tree down. However if they can effectively split the GOP into republican vs MAGA, maybe the republicans will be less evil or ignorant towards legislation. Enemy of my enemy is my friend.
If they can jack knife the republican party, maybe it’ll move the whole left/right system away from the extreme right and let us stop pretending the alt-right cult deserves any official respect or recognition.
I’m not advocating for letting the right do whatever they want or drag us down. More like I wanna coax them towards the most basic of basic of decency so we don’t get literal threats to democracy anymore.
I don’t believe this would achieve anything to be honest. Consider the following: the vast majority of republicans saw Trump’s policies and Project 2025, without going “hold on, this ‘abolition of democracy and jailing of people who disagree with us’ thing is bad!”. If a Republican was actually reasonable with their morals intact, they would have hopped ship to Democratic party already or spoken out and disagreed against Trump earlier (there were a couple but they really were in a minority).
All this ‘compromising’ is going to achieve is giving some of Democrat power away to Republicans who might split from current MAGA, sure, but once another Trump is in the picture they will go back to them straight away, except this time it will be much worse.
For the better, right?
Yes, pushing the GOP away from trumpism by working with someone who is willing to compromise will be good for the country because Republicans will always exist and it’s better that the ones with power are not insane.
I wonder if Democrats will ever compromise with the left, instead of capitulating to the right and announcing that everyone should be happy with their compromise.
Not until we fix campaign finance and get more representational voting.
They were engaging in the behavior I described before Citizens United.
Yes but I figure by the time we fix those two, the old guard will be entirely entombed next to their carefully preserved bad faith bipartisanship glands in canopic jars.
Your time frame seems optimistic.
There was a compromise back in 2020 in order to get Bernie to drop from the race, hence we got a rejuvenated labor board and some labor wins. But we didn’t get there without applying pressure, which is why the uncommitted movement is so important.