Opinion: Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s terrible tweet was bizarre — but revealing – By Zeeshan Aleem (MSNBC) / May 5, 2022
Democrats are trying to channel rage into votes. But their efforts show they don’t have a plan.
In the wake of the leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, wrote a very bad tweet.
“Democrats: We’re angry and hurt, I know. But it’s not about filibuster, size of the court or what the Senate hasn’t passed. It’s about Republicans, not us. We can save our freedoms. But, it’s November, stupid,” his tweet reads.
What Maloney was attempting to do, in clunky and paternalistic language, was productively redirect the fury and betrayal that some on the left have expressed toward the Democratic party after they witnessed a preview of the likely end of federal protections for abortion rights.
But what he actually did was expose how the Democrats don’t actually have a plan. And if they don’t grasp the urgent need for sweeping reforms of the Supreme Court — and many other major political institutions and rules that have made the federal government unresponsive and unrepresentative — they’re going to lose again and again.
