Dems want to win, the leaders have to publicly Sister Souljah The Woke; it may be too late though.

Check out the replies on Twitter, such as

If you don't like Bloomberg, listen to Jim Clyburn....

not unrelated, mho:

Democrats are engaged in a ‘new politics of evasion’ that could cost them in 2024, new study says

Trump and the GOP represent a danger to democracy, the study says. Democrats must win in 2024, but first they have to reorient on cultural issues and question whether there really is a progressive majority emerging in the country.

Analysis by Dan Bal Chief correspondent @ WashingtonPost.com, Yesterday at 8:00 a.m. EST

Three decades ago, Democratic policy analysts William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck published a bracing critique of their party, warning against a “politics of evasion” that they said ignored electoral reality and hindered changes needed to reverse the results of three losing presidential races in which the party had won a combined total of just 173 electoral votes.

Now the authors are back, with a fresh analysis of their party. This time it comes in the wake of President Biden’s victory over former president Donald Trump in 2020, but it is an even starker warning about the future than the one they issued in 1989 after Michael Dukakis’s landslide electoral college loss to George H. W. Bush.

“A Democratic loss in the 2024 presidential election may well have catastrophic consequences for the country,” they write, arguing that the Trump-led Republican Party presents the most serious threat to American democracy in modern times. The Democrats’ first duty, they argue, should be to protect democracy by winning in 2024; everything else should be subordinated to that objective.

But they argue that the Democrats are not positioned to achieve that objective, that, instead, the party is “in the grip of myths that block progress toward victory” and that too many Democrats are engaged in a “new politics of evasion, the refusal to confront the unyielding arithmetic of electoral success.”

“Too many Democrats have evaded this truth and its implications for the party’s agenda and strategy,” the authors add. “They have been led astray by three persistent myths: that ‘people of color’ think and act in the same way; that economics always trumps culture; and that a progressive majority is emerging.”

Galston and Kamarck served in the Clinton administration, and Kamarck is a long-standing member of the Democratic National Committee. Both are scholars at the Brookings Institution, and their new study is published on the website of the Progressive Policy Institute, where they are contributing authors.

Their analysis is a centrist critique of a party that they fear has moved too far to the left and in the process increasingly has lost touch with the swing voters who still have the power to decide elections. Its publication comes a week after voters in San Francisco recalled three members of the local school board in a battle that underscored the limits of left-wing politics even in such a liberal city and an outcome that set off alarms inside the party.

Galston and Kamarck argue that in an age of close elections (five of the past six were decided by five points or fewer), mobilizing base voters is not enough to assure success. “Even though deepening partisanship has reduced the number of swing voters, the narrow margins of our recent national elections have made these voters more important than ever,” they write. “This reality will dominate national politics until one party breaks the deadlock of the past three decades and creates a decisive national majority.”

The authors are especially pointed in their analysis of Democrats’ vulnerabilities on cultural issues. They argue that too many Democrats continue to believe that economic issues “are the ‘real’ issues and that cultural issues are mostly diversions invented by their adversaries for political purposes.” But for many voters, cultural and religious issues are more important than economic issues, and for those voters, those issues “reflect their deepest convictions and shape their identity.”

Trump’s appeals on cultural issues, and his anti-immigrant and nationalist posture moved voters in states with a higher-than-average percentage of White working-class voters, especially Ohio and Iowa, to the point that they are now difficult for Democrats to win presidentially. “And it has made the upper Midwest fiercely competitive, a face-off that is likely to persist until the battle lines between the parties are redrawn,” the study says.

Democrats, they argue, must balance appeals to their base voters with a message that also appeals to enough working-class voters to win elections. In 2020, Biden was able to do that, but Galston and Kamarck argue that success “must not blind Democrats to the fact that these voters often have found Republicans’ cultural claims more persuasive than the Democrats’ economic arguments.”

Galston and Kamarck have joined what is a rising debate within the Democratic Party about the road ahead, and while they offer recommendations from their centrist perspective, others see economic issues as still the core of the party’s message and agenda [....]

I found that tweeted by Frank Luntz:who stresses the lost of Black and Hispanic working class support:

WTF?! Af first sounds like a real messy civil war.

But, as stated in the article, some of the tweets progressives are using to attack him are kind of ambiguous as to meaning

ALSO then I remember Eric Adams was last Brooklyn Borough President, and he may have something to do with this. And then back when he was a State Senator something about how he worked very closely with Republicans (maybe even thought of running as one? Anyhow I see this via googling

New York Senate Republicans hope for an ally in Eric Adams

By Nick Reisman City of Albany PUBLISHED 1:38 PM ET Nov. 17, 2021

For eight long years, Mayor Bill de Blasio would trek to Albany for a chilly reception — and not just from his rival Andrew Cuomo. 

Republicans in the state Senate, who held and then lost power in the chamber during de Blasio's tenure, had a frosty relationship with the New York City mayor after benefitting from the campaign largesse of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. Now, with Mayor-elect Eric Adams and his calls to make further changes to the state's bail laws, Republicans hope they have a new ally in City Hall. 

Or, at the very least, they hope he won't be an enemy. 

The olive branch, first reported by The New York Post this week, came from Minority Leader Robert Ortt, who seized on Adams' call for changing the bail laws that have become a focal point of the criminal justice debate in Albany [....]

Protestors Disrupt LA Mayoral Debate, One Rushes Stage

By CBSLA Staff February 22, 2022 at 7:42 pm

The first video they offer, the protester is attacking candidate Joe. This is Joe; he is a DEMOCRAT and the district he represents since 2012 includes Watts & San Pedro:

Joe Buscaino is an American politician and former police officer. He has served on the Los Angeles City Council as the representative of the 15th district since 2012. From 2020 to 2021, Buscaino served as President pro tempore of the council. A member of the Democratic Party,[1][2] Buscaino is a candidate in the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election.

Buscaino was elected to the 15th district on January 17, 2012 to fill the vacancy left by Janice Hahn, following her successful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives.[3] Buscaino was re-elected on March 5, 2013, to a full four-year term with 83.09% of the vote,[4] the largest margin of victory since at least 1996 for a competitive Los Angeles City Council race.[5] On March 7, 2017, Buscaino won re-election again with 74.85% of the vote.[6] [....]

Maybe Putin is funding The People's City Council?