A new wave of democrats svärs on Thursday introduced in the congress in Washington. In mellanårsvalet in november, the Democrats to the end of the 40 new seats in the house of representatives, significantly more than the 23 seats needed to take back the majority from republicans. These democrats should now take place in the congress to try to build a political brake on Trump.
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Many of the new democrats are young women, blacks and hispanics. 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received plenty of attention as the youngest woman ever in congress and she has spent the months since mellanårsvalet in november to create nationwide support for a more progressive agenda in the party. After two heavy years of the USA’s democrats seem to she is now bringing with it a wave of energy and optimism to Washington.
Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
But we also see signs of internal strife among the democrats. Even if it had been progressive vänsterdemokrater that Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley received the most attention during the winter so was most of the people that won their seats from republicans in november more mittenorienterade democrats. The election was a big victory for the Democrats as a party, but it was not necessarily the progressive vänsterflanken won.
agree on the broad direction of the party. They want to create a united opposition to president Trump, they want to prioritise issues such as health care, stricter gun laws and a series of comprehensive reforms to protect voting rights, and the american democracy’s cornerstone. But there are significant differences, both strategically and ideologically, between the party’s veterans and the new generation that svärs in a week.
Nancy Pelosi, who now takes over the leadership of the house of representatives, is one of Washington’s most experienced and tactically sophisticated politicians. Just as Chuck Schumer, the party’s president in the senate, she sees it as a Democratic task, to get Washington to work, to try to restore a general confidence in the federal government and the services it offers to the american people.
Nancy Pelosi is now taking over the leadership of the house of representatives. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Even if she is ideologically belong in the party’s progressive wing, she has, strategically speaking, a more diplomatic image, and can think of to compromise with the Republicans when it comes to, for example, extensive infrastructure and a common budget to solve the current crisis, with a closed authorities.
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however, tired of their party always seems to get the role as adults and responsible, those who have to clean up and balance the budget after the Republican government. The new wave of democrats want to see Democrats embrace a more left-wing agenda who question the old accepted beliefs about how health care, education and the military to work in the united states. They have also endorsed what they call a “green new deal”, a reference to Franklin Roosevelt’s ”new deal”programs in the 1930s, which laid the foundation for AMERICA’s welfare state. Now they want to primarily see a radical change in climate policy.
In the week showed that Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a disagreement about how they should handle the budget negotiations in an attempt to open up the federal government. Pelosi wants to bring forward a new draft in a week, but Ocasio-Cortez said already that she will vote against it, because it contains a range of budget cuts that she is, in principle, opposed.
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are natural in the broad political movements, but they learn now to put a mark on the Democrats ‘ attempt to collect himself to find a suitable presidential candidate for the election in 2020. Where have primärvalskampanjerna already started, unusually early. Senator Elizabeth Warren launched her campaign in a week. Julian Castro, a young and charismatic democrat in Texas, is expected to launch its campaign next week. It indicates that the spring can be characterized by a pure stream of democrats who are presenting their attempts to challenge the Donald Trump.
