“How’s the Democratic Party’s ground game in Pennsylvania?” I asked a friend several weeks before the 2024 presidential election. He replied optimistically that there were far more door knockers this year than in 2022.
It turned out these door knockers were just urging a vote for the Democrats without putting forth a compelling agenda attached to candidate commitments on issues that mean something to people where they live, work, and raise their families. There was no Democratic Party “Compact for the American People.” Then-President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania, which went Republican, many times, with his most memorable message being that he grew up in Scranton.
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Their aversion to building their own momentum to answer the basic questions “Whose side are you on?” and “What does the Democratic Party stand for?” remains as pathetic as it was in 2022 and 2024.
Literally nothing else you can say matters at all. Because if you can’t answer this, then when you say your position is not unconditionally voting democrat, you are simply lying.
If you want to argue for unconditionally supporting them, and admit that that is your position, then it might be worth considering any of your other arguments, because then at least you’re being honest and consistent. But unless you can either do that or answer my challenge, you are obviously engaging in bad faith and dishonesty.
Either you’re ok with placing conditions on them or you support them unconditionally. That’s what “unconditionally” means. You don’t get to have it both ways.
And, if you can answer that challenge, then you’ll have already refuted all the arguments you just made for me.