Ten sitting house democrats and five candidates just signed the “Promise to America” pledge ensuring the public they are not socialists. It has six banal points with no specifics, no plan, and no agenda that might actually help anyone. Of the six, five are limp, empty platitudes. The sixth is a Trojan horse to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. So either these “Democrats” are wholly and secretly aligned with the folks who wrote Project 2025, or they’re stupid. You decide.

In this episode, Max rips apart the pledge, puts this so-called movement in historical context, grades the legislators who are signatories to it, and explains why they are so out of step with what their constituents truly desire.

Resources

Politicon: James Carville: What Just Happened In The NYC Primaries

Fox News Clips: ‘WE’RE FOR CAPITALISM’: Moderate Democrat responds to socialist wins

NBC News: ‘Mamdani is a threat to my constituents,’ says New York House Democrat

Fox News Clips: Democrat TORCHES Mamdani: ‘Job-killing socialist’

Promise to America

Newsweek: Democrats Launch Centrist Group as Trump Attacks Socialists, Communists

Daily Kos: Promise to America: 15 Dems pledge surrender to the GOP

Blue Dog PAC

Wikipedia: New Democrat Coalition

Problem Solvers Caucus Members

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation: Chart Packs

UNFTR Resources

Video: These ‘New Democrats’ Are Literally Aligned With Trump’s Plan.

Essay: The New Republicrats: Snakes of the Democratic Party.

Series: The Clinton Years.

Episode: Project 2025.

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