I mean, Biden is quoted as calling it a campaign promise.
Which is is less binding than a pinky promise, but in 2024, he at least saw that he had made the commitment in 2020. Plenty of people in 2024 then were also incorrectly saying that Biden didn't make that promise.
When it comes to any attempts to get things done that would make the party more progressive, or more to more aggressively fight, there is always some rule, some policy, the fucking "Parlementarian", whatever, that blocks them. There are rules! We must follow them, even the ones that contradict the other ones!
But when it comes to stopping progressives, they change, bend, or break their own rules to favor a candidate or policy, its fine. Very legal very cool, the court said so. Justified as "they are private institution and can do whatever they want". The DNC can rig their primary, its fine. The court said so. See. The rules don't matter.
The term, I believe, is called illiberalism. Its the facade of democracy; the trapings, the method: but none of its substance. The Democratic party would have it both ways. Rules matter, when it comes to stopping you from having influence on the party, and yet, the rules don't matter, again, if it results in stopping you from having influence in the party.
The Democratic party is an illiberal party, when it comes to their own governance.
I mean duh. Everyone here, with a core set of exceptions, was making the same points about Biden's approach to the border while it was happening. At least Flores had the candor to leave the administration.
The summary of the entire Biden approach to the border was to undermine the previous 16 years of work and progress that Democrats had been making on the border and then allow Trump to entirely frame and own the narrative on the matter. This left Biden to double down with that bullshit they pulled in the senate the summer before: a border bill more draconian than anything Republicans had been able to come up with.
And the Democrats expected their voters to show up and support that?
Like. Stop fucking taking your notes on how to get Democratic voters to show up to the polls from fox fucking news, DNC leadership.
Everyday we stray further from jod.