Letters to the Editor: The Democratic Party needs to do some soul-searching. Kamala Harris isn’t the answer

First of 3 letters:

>To the editor: When President Trump sat out the 2017 White House correspondents’ dinner, Will Ferrell, as George W. Bush, ambled onstage at an alternative function, paced while smoking a cigarette and finally turned to the audience and asked, “How ya like me now?” to thunderous applause.

>If this is former Vice President Kamala Harris’ intended approach as she is said to be “thinking about” a 2028 run for the White House, the public and whoever constitute the party elders of today’s Democratic Party should make clear, publicly and privately, that it won’t work (“Kamala Harris says she ‘might’ run for president in 2028,” April 10). Harris ran inept campaigns for the White House twice, failing each time to articulate a vision of the job and her qualifications for it beyond ambition, good looks and an often-inappropriate smile. Today, she is further burdened — and, frankly, disqualified — by her shameful silence as President Biden’s mental acuity deteriorated.

>Democrats cannot win back the White House simply by being “not Trump.” Moreover, focusing on near-term (though important) issues such as gas and grocery prices is merely tactical. While that may win the hill, it won’t be enough to hold the hill. That will take chucking the party’s recent neck-up approach to “messaging” and governing, firing its pollsters and data analysts, and hiring in their place psychologists and sociologists to help in recognizing how woefully out of touch with Americans’ “gut” the party has become at its core.

We dont need another candidate to lose

She is a nice, cool lady even

But we need someone with more awareness, passion and conviction that speaks to a broad audience, all of america

I’m not voting for anyone who has run before in the primaries. We need new blood

This is why we have primaries. Folks need to vote as if their lives depended on it.

I’d love to see a presidential candidate who campaigns with their choice for Attorney General. If their AG pick can talk about the many violations of the law committed by the Trump administration, and discuss at length what they plan to do prosecute them, that would really make voters take notice. Mention specific names too, as well as the charges they plan to file against them and the recommended sentencing guidelines if someone is found guilty of the specific charges.

The people will decide. This is why we vote. She is better than any RepubliKKKan. I prefer her to Newsom, but I have no problem voting for him in the general election. I prefer AOC over both of them. We will have quite a few good candidates to choose from.

Agree! She is definitely not the answer.

Ah, the now right-wing editorial board of the LA Times publishing letters to sew discord amongst democrats two and a half years before the next presidential election (and 6 months before they face a midterm massacre)

Imagine talking about 2028 before the midterms. People in the real world could never.

Let’s get through the midterms and break the GOP majorities in Congress first, then figure out the rest in the primaries.

The article fails to mention that she wouldn’t run with just being against Trump and those that voted for him, she’d sprinkle in the “I told you so” bs as well.

Let’s let the voters decide, instead of some anon Reddit poster.

Agreed.  

The bigger thing Democrats need to stop doing is acting like everyone is going to agree on everything exactly when you have a center-left party made up of centrists, liberals, and progressives. Is Kamala a viable candidate? Yes. Is she perfect? No. Is she my first choice? No. The difference is if she goes through the primaries and wins, then I will support her. Democrats need to stop killing each other because of 2 or 3 issues were there may be differences or nuances. Is it better to have someone you agree with mostly in office or do you want to risk another corrupt plutocrat instituting draconian, fascist nonsense?

Why the fuck would they think she was a good idea? She has done less than Jefferies and HE needs to get out. FFS

The obvious “anti-Trump” is Mark Kelly. He’s naturally everything that Trump lies about being.

If she wins the Democrat primary i will vote for her in general election. Not sure who I’ll vote for in the primary but it probably won’t be Harris. She lost to Trump with all his baggage. I don’t see how she can beat any Republican nominee.

The fact that she’s even thinking about running in 2028 shows just how out of touch Dems like her are.

I feel the media, and maybe the DNC, are really trying to push the “people are talking about another Harris presidential bid…” angle while not mentioning they are the people talking that, while the rest of is don’t want another status quo neo liberal.

I think they are seeing the success of folk like Mamdani, the strength of candidates like Planter, and others that have a less corporate, build from the foundation up, tax the rich, type of candidates, and want to stop that to go back to pre-trump era. An era that was still corrupt, but not as much, definitely not so in the open, that still was more representative of corporate America and the oligarchs then the average folk. We want a candidate that wants to work for the middle (what’s left of it), working, and lower classes, to improve their quality of life by making a government that actually works for the people. Lowering the price of basic necessities, housing, food, and will actually fight for some sort of universal healthcare.

Sadly I don’t think the DNC has learned this lesson, to not offer up a corporate “moderate” candidate. They well try the ole pull to the middle more, but the system is so far to the right, “moderate” is essentially a 90s Republican, we don’t want that. We need a young, more progressive (in the sense they want to go away from a trickle down economics to a stregthen from the foundation up economy) minded, FDR new deal style of candidate. But again, they seem to already be trying to get us conditioned to accept their neo-liberal corporate owned status quo style of candidates. 😮‍💨

No no, pick Kamlaa again! Please!

If we could stop running people that have lost elections that’d be great, k?

they can’t run from Black people. they can’t run from Gaza/Palestine. They can’t run from Latinx people. They can’t low-key tolerate attacking LGBT people.

Primaries are for the establishment to pick their own candidates despite bernie being insanely popular at the time

Here come the so called progressives determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

It’s such a perfect illustration of how absolutely idiotic and up its own ass the DNC is that there’s even a thought about running the woman who got humiliated by a man who rapes women, got a million Americans killed by Covid, roots for Putin, and planned and executed a failed coup. Just braindead and almost as regressive as the GOP. Maybe they should stop letting octogenarians run everything.

It’s a death knoll for democrats.