{"id":105688,"date":"2025-04-22T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=105688"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:12:12","slug":"letter-democrats-lacking-a-leader-message-and-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2025\/04\/22\/letter-democrats-lacking-a-leader-message-and-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Democrats lacking a leader, message, and ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear Editor,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Journalist Amie Parnes of The Hill recently appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper and said that the Democratic Party is still a mess and in even worse shape than they were right after their massive loss in the 2024 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Parnes suggests that there is still a lot of infighting among members of the party and that some strategists on the left want to \u201cburn the house down\u201d and start over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Democrats still have no leader, no message, and no ideas on how to solve these problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Transcript via Real Clear Politics:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">JAKE TAPPER: Amie, let me start with you. Near the end of the book, you framed the 2024 election this way for Democrats. You say, \u201cDemocrats tried to break Donald Trump. Instead, they shattered again. They said they were saving the country, the presidency, and the Congress from Trump and his MAGA movement; they saved nothing, not even themselves. Democrats lost everything, including their friendships.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on your interviews with top Democrats then and now, is the party still in the shambles it was in November, December of last year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AMIE PARNES, CO-AUTHOR, FIGHT: It\u2019s honestly even worse right now, Jake. And I think they\u2019re scrambling to find out who their leader is, but they\u2019re also in the midst of an identity crisis. They don\u2019t know who they are right now. They don\u2019t know what their message is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And, you know, I\u2019ve said this repeatedly over the last couple of days, but I think what they need to do and what I think a lot of strategists are telling me is that they need to almost burn the house down, but not only burn the house down, accept some accountability and say, &#8220;This is what went wrong.\u201d This is what we need to do now, and, you know, take responsibility for President Biden and maybe not getting him out sooner. And, you know, they really need to have a little bit of introspection here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Democrats can\u2019t seem to help themselves. They don\u2019t have anything serious to offer the American people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jim Outman <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Owego, N.Y.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Journalist Amie Parnes of The Hill recently appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper and said that the Democratic Party is still a mess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter: Democrats lacking a leader, message, and ideas - 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