RawStory - 'Worst-case scenario': Trump's niece says Democrats are doing her 'uncle's work for him'

[Dennis Donovan]

RawStory - 'Worst-case scenario': Trump's niece says Democrats are doing her 'uncle's work for him'

David McAfee
November 13, 2024 6:54AM ET

At a time when Democrats should be unifying against Donald Trump, some are throwing each other under the bus, according to the former and incoming president's family member.

Mary Trump, Trump's niece and a trained psychologist, supported Vice President Kamala Harris over her own uncle. Now, she's targeting the Democrats who are blaming Harris for the massive loss.

"There are many and complex reasons why we have ended up here, so it’s been extremely disappointing to see the usual suspects (and some I didn’t anticipate) blaming Democrats for everything that has gone down," Mary Trump wrote Tuesday.

She continued:

"For a significant sub-set of Democratic operatives and pundits, the post-mortems have focused almost exclusively on what Democrats have done wrong, while entirely failing to take into account global trends, entrenched beliefs among American voters, and decades’ worth of right-wing disinformation. It’s as if said operatives and pundits were looking at this catastrophe through a purely Republican lens."

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[SunSeeker]

1. Thank you, Mary!

I've got no patience left for the circular firing squad.

[Paladin]

7. +1000. (nt)

[BonnieJW]

9. Kamala 's campaign was flawless

I won't watch or listen to anyone who starts explaining where she went wrong

[PatSeg]

22. I agree, she couldn't have been better

And that is remarkable considering the short time she had to put together her campaign.

[3auld6phart]

28. Yes

I wanted to jump the border and cast a vote the Kam and Tim team.. heart breaking that they didn’t make it.i look out my patio door and see a country going to Hell in a hand basket. Really disappointing..:banghead

[onecaliberal]

39. Same.

[Magoo48]

21. I don't either.

The pols who won’t resist with all their efforts should be called out and moved aside.
Sometimes I think I feel like they don’t truly understand what fascism is.

[Cha]

34. Well Put, SunSeeker..

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. Do they ever poll voters to find out what resonates?

Stop talking about the constitution and democracy (initially) and start using - if they poll well and especially repubs who held their nose and voted for him, hard to believe - things like taking away your rights and stealing your hard earned benefits doing things in the dark and pummel them with it.

Find out what moves them and use it!

[Jack Valentino]

6. President Biden's and Kamala's attacks against corporate greed were polling well--

unfortunately they both abandoned those themes too soon.

[Ray Bruns]

3. "There are many and complex reasons why we have ended up here"

Bullshit! It was the racism and misogyny of the American people that got us here.

[mopinko]

4. it was the lies. so many lies that ppl dont know what the truth is any more.

yes, they played on prejudice, but they did it w lies.

[Lancero]

5. More specifically, the racism and misogyny of white men.

[liberalla]

17. Yes, this specifically!

[Hassler]

35. And Latino men

[bronxiteforever]

8. Look how McConnell and the rethugs reacted to Obama.

Firing squads and “would have could have” arguments are completely meaningless. Plan for the next days fight and forget mirror gazing. Hold the GOP accountable because they have all branches.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. Definitely need to unify and attack every move by GOP/MAGA/NAZI

[TRHST82]

10. It's all giving me late 2016/early 2017.flashbacks.

Hopefully, it'll pass and people will focus more on how awful Trump/MAGA is.

[Botany]

11. "and decades' worth of right-wing disinformation." Paid for by the likes of the fossil fuel industries

Yup!

[liberalla]

19. .and --- It worked! It worked!

Big bonus for whoever developed that road map and those messages long ago...

[Botany]

27. Joseph Goebbels "The Big Lie"

If you tell a lie that is big enough and long enough some people will believe it.

Trump put a smaller child in the hospital, tried to throw a teacher out a window,
had to go to a military school, flunked out of Fordham, and got 14 million killed
Worldwide with his responses to C-19.

[MadameButterfly]

13. 10 million fewer Democrats voted and

there were bomb threats all over the swing states in Democratic districts. i think we don't even know that half of the voter suppression with the help of Russia. Corporations may have kept prices high probably just to hurt Democrats. When have we ever had a force like Twitter all out for one candidate, with no regulation, no guardrails, completely untethered to the truth? Citizens United: several Billionaires funded half of Trump's campaign.

We are never on an even playing field because Republicans cheat and Democrats don't. Plus gerrymandering and the EC. From Nixon to W. Bush, to Trump. In a real majority rule Democracy Nixon 2, both Bush terms, and both Trump terms would have happened. And we'd be saving the planet right now instead of facing fascism.

Kamala and Tim are my heroes still. Let's honor them and keep them safe.

[jaxexpat]

18. All relevant facts which should be the first words out of everyone's mouth.

Because after digesting their wisdom, all other speechifying shrinks to irrelevance and is not worth the oxygen it uses. Safe days for you as well, MadameButterfly.

[MadameButterfly]

29. Thanks

[Clouds Passing]

14. One main reason: the media and their constant lies

There is NO truly Democratic media who touted Joe Biden and the Democrats accomplishments. Even “Democracy Now” constantly smearing Joe and the Ds, and only focusing on the Palestinian issue. People like Claire McCaskill piling on with her hate of Joe. And no one was touting their accomplishments no mainstream media. No wonder the Democrats lost it’s all right wing radio all right wing news all fucking day.

When the Democrats start creating and growing their own media then maybe we have a chance. And not with people like DN, James Carville and Clare McCaskill.

[groundloop]

37. I feel like Democrats have traditionally been bad at tooting their own horn

I get it, Joe was busy as hell doing all the things that needed doing, digging us out of the hole tRUMP left us in. We needed to put more time and effort into crowing about the accomplishments.

[Jit423]

15. I'm with Mary on this.

They should be LISTENING to us voters but ORGANIZING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Leave the bitching to us and unify where the power is.

[jaxexpat]

16. ".....operatives and pundits.....looking at this catastrophe through a purely Republican lens."

Just as they've been trained to. For decades, from Dowd to Doocy, the media wouldn't understand the function of nor reason for even the simplest non-pro-GOP concept. Many Democratic political operatives are so fucked up they still think Carville is a good source for important minutia regarding elections and democracy.

[NorCalBlue]

20. Kamala's feelings

Kamala is to Prosecutor, and this happens when you lose a trial. Talk in the office, Monday morning quarterbacking… all done by other people who don’t actually go to trial. The non-warriors, the ones who ALWAYS DEAL it out, and never go to the mat.

Kamala has been there. Her feelings are the only ones I worry about and those pusses in the wings who never risk, never fight, always criticize….

I can’t write what I truly think of them. The community rules won’t allow it.

[bluestarone]

23. I say do to them what they did to us

Time for a shadow government. Everything they do that's bad Some STRONG Democrat (Democrats) should do what TFG did. TWO president country for four years is what we need to do!!

[PortTack]

24. The pundits do this every time when we lose....they take talented Dems to the wood shed...sad

[Blue Full Moon]

25. The blame game pointing fingers

[FM123]

26. And so many of those entrenched beliefs among American voters

were even more misogynistic and racist than we realized.

[Martin Eden]

30. Decades of rightwing disinformation

Is the BIGGEST reason!

[Tweedy]

32. Never admitting error

So somehow the crash of 2008 was President Obama’s fault even though he was a Senator at the time.

Somehow the failure of savings & loans was the fault of greedy shareholders not right wing deregulation of those savings & loans. Did you know most of America’s single family homes were built by now defunct savings & loans?

Somehow Covid inflation was Joe Biden’s fault even though it began in Mr. Trump’s administration.

What is next? The devil gave us polio?

[Tweedy]

31. Welcome to the last twenty plus years

In which almost everything gets boxed up in a Republican frame even though the frame does not pass a simple smell test, much less rational analysis.

[Cha]

33. AND.. That's What many of Us Are Saying Here!

TY & Mary T.

[groundloop]

36. I'm quite sure we'll become unified again on January 21st

A whole bunch of people are very pissed off and disappointed right now, it's going to take a bit of time to recover from that. But..... the moment tRUMP takes possession of the White House I have no doubt that we're going to become very much united again.

With that being said, I do hope that party leadership learns from this election and fixes the shortcomings. In my most humble opinion Kamala and Tim ran a very good campaign, but it's just damned difficult to overcome the right wing propaganda machine along with main stream media giving tRUMP a free pass on virtually everything.

[maxsolomon]

38. "Theres nothing Dems could have done" isn't a particularly great take, either.

I keep going back to the ad I saw the most: "Kamala broke it; Trump can fix it".

Absolute bullshit, but it was memorable and punchy. Americans are ignorant, lazy and stupid, and MFer knows this - because he's just like them.

[bluetexas]

40. decades' worth of right-wing disinformation.

that's the main problem.

[dlk]

41. Indeed

The last thing any Democrat should be doing at this critical time is to blame other Democrats. It accomplishes absolutely nothing and a complete waste of time.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. Why did ten million voters stay home??

[Bread and Circuses]

43. Correct, Mary Trump.

That’s why I’m done with both cable and legacy media. They were falling over themselves pontificating about how the Democrats need to …..

Whatever.

It doesn’t matter. Biden’s economy is hot, best in the world and pulling the other economies.
Or, that VP Harris ran a remarkable campaign and is immensely qualified.

The liars, cheats, misogynists, lazy people wanted someone just like them. Spreading fear and hate because they are
All Empty Inside.

[Macrophylla]

44. I still think

We vastly underestimate the ignorance of the people we walk the face of the earth with. We also underestimate their propensity towards sadistic and cruel behavior.

[Blasphemer]

45. Democrats turn against each other, Republicans rally around a psychopath...

Mary nailed it. It’s why I am mostly avoiding social media and haven’t been on DU much since the election.

[33taw]

46. I think the Republican Party looks like fools for indulging Trump. I am not mad at the Democrats who tried to elect

Harris. I think the Republicans are going to fall on their faces. It will be painful for all of us, but maybe this is what it takes to destroy them.