I'm with David Hogg's claim that the Democratic Party needs a leadership reset.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-democratic-party-needs-reset.html

From the start of Biden's term in office, I was not pleased with the direction the party was going and with the things its elected leaders, especially in Congress were doing. I'm a Democrat who earns the right to speak up. I knock on doors for candidates and I contribute. I'm not silent when I need to speak up. I send communication to both Senators, my representative, and my state legislators.

Off the reaction to the January 6th insurrection, we got an impeachment with a dead end conviction that we knew would be the outcome in the senate. But we also got a Congressional investigation that produced a mountain of evidence, more than enough for a guilty verdict to many different crimes, including leading an insurrection against the government of the United States. That should have been followed up by some bold steps requiring some risk to be taken, but necessary for justice to be served.

And the justice department of the United States of America, in the hands of the Democratic party and the administration of President Joe Biden, failed to take the bold, risky steps necessary, dragged their feet, and let the opportunity to prevent Trump from ever taking office again, and most likely spending prison time justifiably, pass without taking advantage of the use of the power that they had.

People want things to get done, quickly. They don't want to drag things along until the right person has the chance to approve some idea or plan. Democrats turned off a lot of potential constituents by the panic and confusion that happened when the party couldn't get a handle on who was running the show, in the weeks leading up to Harris' nomination. The fact that the big shots and major donors had to put their stamp of approval on everything was a huge turnoff that drove a lot of voters away.

I think Hogg is on the right track here. He wants to cut through all of that partisan political goo, and get right to the point of finding leaders who will get things done and ignore the old line, old school protocol. He wants to find and empower leaders who will take risks and who will be bold enough to get things done without worrying about setting themselves up for future political success. He's looking for people who will represent the people, not the money interests or the influence peddlers. So he doesn't want to play the games, and that's brought out the critics whose power is vested in old school thinking, and threatened by something more popular than they are.

I've heard his critics say he should focus on helping Democrats beat Republicans, not on primarying Democrats. But I think this route is the way to victory for Democrats. We need to win Congressional seats and our playing by the old rules isn't cutting it. The establishment has played itself out, and it is clearly not leading any resistance to Trump, that's being done by a whole different constituency. We are facing a constitutional crisis because Democrats weren't bold enough to take the political risks necessary to have Trump sent to prison where he belongs, instead of being re-elected to the White House, where he doesn't belong.

Let's give new leadership a shot at it. Thanks, David. Speak the truth to power.