Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) criticizes the Democratic Party's lack of leadership and its focus on seniority, arguing for a shift towards listening to voters and prioritizing talent over tenure.
Phillips (D-Minn.), 55, argued that Democrats need to roll up their sleeves and do more listening, especially to the voters who have ditched the party over recent cycles. A party that consists of multiple silos and campaign committees and outside groups cannot strategically do its job, and that means leadership.
The North Star State Democrat mused that he’s not even sure whom his colleagues would cite as the party’s leader, and underscored the need to fix the leadership vacuum in order for the party to roar back to power in Washington.Dean Phillips suggested that he probably would’ve vied for another term in the House if he didn’t run for president. Reporter says she was bullied by bosses to the point of psychotic break: 'I almost lost my life' “I think it’s ironic that the Republican Party is now representing America’s working class. It’s astounding, and that was ceded to them by people that have prioritized things like tenure over talent, identity politics over pragmatic problem solving,” Philips bemoaned. Phillips is far from alone in railing against his party’s emphasis on seniority. Fellow Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) knocked the party for selecting Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to serve as “Within the Democratic Caucus, we are really stuck in our old ways of doing things, which is you get there by seniority,” Crockett told MSNBC Saturday. “I don’t think we fully sit there and say, ‘Who may be best equipped for this moment?’” Looming large among House Democrats is former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who ceded the No. 1 Dem spot to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the start of last year. Although no longer technically in charge of House Democrats, the 84-year-old pol is widely believed to retain enormous influence within her party. “I admire to this very day Nancy Pelosi, but I even then said we need change,” Phillips reflected to Politico, in reference to his early days in the Hous
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