Tim Miller & Adam Kinzinger: Time For a Democratic Tea Party

"Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see signs of people refusing to be ruled by unelected billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs. This may be the time for Democrats with some heterodox views to run for office. Meanwhile, the supposedly free speech president and his shadow are trying to intimidate people from criticizing them—including a member of Congress and one of Elon's baby mamas. Plus, Trump's advisers seem more worried about Zelensky saying mean things about him than the fact that he wants to hand the spoils to the losing side of the war. Rep. Adam Kinzinger joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod." 

Source:The Bulwark with Tim Miller, Elon Musk, and Adam Kinzinger. Actually, the Co-President of the United States doesn't appear on this podcast. 

From The Bulwark

"Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see signs of people refusing to be ruled by unelected billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs. This may be the time for Democrats with some heterodox views to run for office. Meanwhile, the supposedly free speech president and his shadow are trying to intimidate people from criticizing them—including a member of Congress and one of Elon's baby mamas. Plus, Trump's advisers seem more worried about Zelensky saying mean things about him than the fact that he wants to hand the spoils to the losing side of the war." 

From Adam Kinzinger

So if you think The New Democrat has been too negative about MAGA, DOGE, Washington in general in 2025... we disagree with you. But if you want something positive, something to look forward too, something positive for the all real American patriots (not the MAGA Bros) to get behind, here it is. 

If 2017-18 was the resistance where Democrats of all political backgrounds (except for Democrats who voted for Donald Trump) and Conservative Republicans really just donated their time and even careers, to oppose President Donald Trump on everything... (meaning everything that is bad) that movement is all but gone now. Those people, including The New Democrat are still around. But that movement which really just a pro-liberal democracy, Constitution, and rule of law party, ran its course. 

The American values that "The Resistance" were promoting, were not what Independent voters and unfortunately even a lot of mainstream Republicans, and even some blue-collar Democrats, were thinking about when they voted in 2024. The 3 election cycles before 24? Yes. What they were thinking about was, according to the polls: 

Milk, is too expensive, eggs are too expensive, and groceries and energy are too expensive in America, to allow for the Democrats to hang onto power. Or, that's what they were telling the pollsters. Those things are now more expensive than they were in October. But in Trump World, they don't allow facts to interfere into a political argument. 

So to go to what Tim Miller and Adam Kinzinger is talking about: we need a positive pro-democratic movement, that relates to the problems that the new Trump Administration is creating for America. 

And similar to how American voters were pissed off about the Great Recession, the high unemployment, the. banking crisis, ObamaCare in 2009-10, which launched what was called the "Tea Party movement" back then, we (meaning Liberals, Conservatives, and Progressives who still care about America) need a movement to step with the goal to defeat as many MAGA "Republicans" as they possibly can. Not just the Congress, (House & Senate) but win as many governor's races, and state legislatures, political judicial races as politically possible, in 2025-26. 

And The New Democrat is obviously still pro-liberal democracy and the great liberal values that come with that, like the Constitution, rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, individual rights, etc. And we are still going to promote those liberal values. But that's not what all these voters are voting on. 

But instead you show them how bad MAGA and Donald Trump/Elon Musk's CEO/monarch/oligarch style of big government, is simply bad for everyone else. And just talk about and concentrate your own campaigns, your movement, based on how much people are suffering, because the cost of living is just too damn high for most people, and career public servants losing their jobs, simply because they're not 100% loyal to Donald Trump and how all those career government employees losing their jobs, for no reason, is bad for the country as well. 

And to go to another point made by Adam Kinzinger said and why I love his conservatism: let's make this opposition movement about defeating Donald Trump and MAGA, period. Not about how many different genders and sexualities we can create, if we just had more Federal funding. Or nationalizing health care, banking, energy, etc, or outlawing private wealth and individual initiative.

Lets as the opposition in America, leave the crazy politics for the political nuthouse. And perhaps visit those people on visiting day when we need to be entertained. As well as a good reminder that is not who we want to be or where we want to end up. Let's stay focus on the mission of making Donald Trump's current term as POTUS, his very last and completely knocking the MAGA movement out-of-power in Washington and in as many places around the country as possible. 

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