The attacks on Ali Velshi's monologue yesterday - "Where's the Party?" are out of line.

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...there's nothing in what Velshi said that does anything to confront republicans, or, more importantly, elect Democrats.

That's what we need to be focused on right now, not nitpicking the people actually doing that job.

And, yes, they're doing their jobs, which used to mean more than the political performance expectations this political generation has made the standard for their acceptance. (you do know it's not actually Newsom clowning on his X account, right, but his staff, and that he's 'doing his job' too?)

When Democrats hold majorities they not only fight, as they are right now, they win for the American people on more than just scoring political points against republicans.

Let Velshi argue that Democratic majorities don't move American forward, EVERY TIME. He's making a diverting and specious argument about a party out of power with no legislative means to do anything; unlike the governors who have Dem majorities to advance bills through their legislatures and have their governor sign them.

That does not exist for the Democrats he's taking these cheap shots at; Democrats he doesn't bother to have on to shove his revisionist-with blinders-on takes on our party back in his mouth.

We have a BINARY political system in which the choices are a regime which is ignoring laws, courts, and the American people as they dismantle the government and our democracy, and Democrats who govern fairly, responsibly, forcefully, and effectively when in power..

These other concerns about volume and semantics can be addressed and resolved in a Democratic majority. Without one, it's just acrimony and recrimination without any legislative vehicle to do anything but stand outside of the halls of power and complain.

Bayard Rustin, a leading organizer of the March on Washington said in his book, 'Strategies for Freedom' that for a movement or political concern to do more than complain it needs to have a legislative goal attached, to transform agitation into action.

Where is the legislative goal in what Velshi is asking us to focus on as a party? How do we make those happen?