He’s very intelligent and I don’t have any major issues with his voting record. I just feel that a lot of the leaders in the party are not understanding the moment and being more innovative.

I believe. She likely knew what he was like.
Perhaps she misjudged him?

She seemed to know how to get things done.

and no, Jeffries is not ineffective.

Jefferies has done nothing to push back and seems passive rather than aggressive.

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If you're talking about leadership, party/caucus members vote, no primaries.

It is correct.

...certainly not 'Democrat primary'

Google Democrat primary and get back to us with the results.

In the sentence, “Democrat” refers to the person who would challenge Jeffries in a primary. That would be a member of the Democratic Party, aka a Democrat.

...it's just not.

It is NOT referring to a "Democrat Primary". As was explained to you, it is referring to an individual politician who would run in a primary against him. A member of the Democratic Party IS a Democrat.

…Democrat this and Democrat that, and it took a number of years, but finally the news media picked it up permanently, and then some Democrats themselves. He also started saying “Democrat” and “liberal” with a tone of contempt, until finally I realized he had turned it into a dirty word (like for instance using someone’s religion as a dirty word, and you know what I mean) .

Lest we think this was in any way inadvertent or harmless, remember that he was the one who wrote “Language as a Key Mechanism of Control” for GOPAC.

I remember the moon landing too.

the job of the House and Senate minority leaders. It is simply to run those caucuses. That's it. We are not a Parliamentary system where the head of the minority caucus is the leader of the party or the opposition.

or not having the right personality.

Must be upsetting to put all one's eggs in the DEMS CAVE basket so one can huff and puff that they're never ever never this time I'm serious giving money to those awful Dems again and hint at a personal DEMEXIT and then it doesn't happen.

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about what's going on in the House than those who are NOT.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20695666

now, he seems to be afraid of his shadow, like Schumer.

So, ineffective, but he could choose to be more effective.

I think the biggest problem is that a lot of elected Democrats spend too much time trying to be polite and "nice". They are stuck in an older social contract, where both sides would work together to get things done. It is not that way anymore, Republicans do not compromise nor do they cooperate.

I’m feeling diplomatic today.

Show us a minority leader who is effective.

...

NT

But I am having second thoughts as to whether he should be the minority leader, or if Dems win the house, Speaker.

He speaks with an affected unnatural cadence — like he’s reciting a poem all the time. It’s kinda annoying.

but I think that there may be some influences there from MLK.

That would be

But I wonder... WHY does he need to be primaried to be replaced? If he's so "ineffective" as you claim, then wouldn't those who voted for him to be the Minority Leader simply choose someone else?

Or are your minds totally made up? We are not a parliamentary form of govt, and our system is what it is. Even so, there’s this info that AOC Herself Herself says that the “Republicans are getting walloped by Jeffries and Schumer. “

lots of K & R... We need to get the Word out as you know!

Both parties are the same, so let's continually fuck over the one of them that most closely aligns with us!

"After Hitler, our turn!" -- quote from Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany that was arrested by the Gestspo, put in solitary confinement for over a decade, and then shot dead on Hitler's orders.

...that Jeffries is not.

PS - If Jeffries were to lose his primary, his district loses the highest ranking Democrat in the House. The primary winner will basically be at the bottom of the totem pole. Do you think that benefits his district?

is absurd. It's performative. It's virtue signaling to try and shame our best and experienced and loyal Democrats for not behaving like TV pundits or comedians. That's not "leadership"... It's not what men like Jeffries are elected to do.

and Sees our Leaders UP Close..

"AOC: 'Republicans have been getting walloped by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer'"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220695607

Chuckie and Fetterman. But there are some that would be better than Jeffries.

Jeffries is respected and supported by the Democratic House Caucus.

They can duke it out for Speaker of The House.

These Repukes are not normal and we have to adjust.

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But, he is not the leader of the Dems we need at this moment
He's seems to be an an Old Guard, Old School, Ultra-Cautious,
Dem Politician, quite reluctant and ill-equiped( like Schumer),
to come to grips with a Fascist/Mafioso onslaught of our
Democracy.I would much, much rather see Swallwell or AOC...
(In the Senate, Murphy or Kelly)

This, after holding the job for the previous two years.

The House Democrats obviously don't think that he is ineffective. If they change their minds, they'll have a chance to vote for someone else in a little over a year.

We are at a heavy disadvantage and he's doing as good as anyone would do under these constraints.

My two cents: He should, however, bump his rhetoric down to a 4th grade level and he would likely be more effective when he is allowed to speak. He's too sophisticated.