If we want the USA to survive, we need the younger progressive (who simply want what most Americans want) Democrats to lead the Democratic Party. Otherwise we all lose.

I'm on board with AOC, she's great, so is Jasmine Crockett. Pete Buttigieg. But none of them have Emanuel's experience, including his leadership in getting more Democrats elected to Congress than any other Congressional or DNC chair since 2000. Throw out the old and we lose that experience, and we sure haven't seen that kind of leadership since.

look how great this sounds:

It's the new buzz word. If you have something worthwhile to say you don't need "messaging."

Rahm Emanuel always knows which way the wind blows.

So let's see, he shepherded through passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 as an adviser to President Bill Clinton, and he opposed President Barack Obama’s pursuit of comprehensive health care reform in 2010, killed kill Obama's massive transportation and infrastructure bill, expanded the use of charter schools in Chicago, and incited a bitter feud with public school teachers, aggressively recruited right-leaning candidates at the DCCC, covered up a brutal police killing of a black teenager...

as if Rahm is giving us some kind of warning.

"his knack for taking bad Republican ideas and making them worse"

And off topic.

Emanuel is the last person to be re-elected Mayor of Chicago in the current political era, and it was after the schools were closed, because, instead of paying attention to decades of old line Democratic political tradition, he and his allies decided to do what was best for the city of Chicago.

He won 55% of the vote in his first run, in which he secured the support of every Democratic party constituency in the city. Even after the school closings, and the installation of red light cameras, also not a popular move, but a huge boost for police and for city revenue, after polls showed his job approval in the high 20% range, he won 56% of the vote. That's after winning four terms in Congress in Illinois district 5, which lies wholly within the city of Chicago, his lowest vote total being his first run, at 67%, his subsequent elections picking up more than 70% of the vote. He was polling in the mid-30% range when he was probing a third shot at being mayor, ten full points ahead of his pre-second term polling and likely would have won in a landslide, given that his opposition likely would have been Paul Vallas, who lost the last election to Brandon Johnson in spite of leading in the polls.

Rahm Emanuel has been at the top of the list of success in Democratic party electoral politics, including helping more Democrats get elected to Congress than anyone else has since 2000. And yes, you make the point of his having adapted and changed his positions at various times and places, which only supports the contention that he knows how to win elections and is not bound by the stubborn insistence on tradition and protocol that cost us the White House and control of Congress this election. And that is exactly why what he has to say is so credible.

So you don't like him. Who really cares about that? So your point is "I don't like Rahm Emanuel, and I don't want to listen to his advice to Democrats but I agree with his advice to Democrats."

by making poor people even poorer. For many of the people (not all) in Rahm's north side district, they are proportionately less likely to get tickets and if they do it's not going to destroy their lives.

For the poor people supplying all this great revenue, it's destroying a lot of them.

Read about it if you're interested: https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-speed-cameras-safety-racial-disparities

Most major cities and suburbs have them. Cameras just click when someone triggers it with a violation. They don't discriminate. And in Chicago, you don' t pay until your third violation. It's $100 bucks.

Yeah, so you don't like the guy. Inconsequential when it comes to what he had to say. He's helped more Democrats actually get elected than any Congressional campaign chair or DNC chair, so what he has to say is valuable and worth considering. If you want to dump everyone who is older, made mistakes and learned from them, then get used to being stuck with Trump.

The word is "seized", not "siezed" .

A notorious enemy of the people.
I HATE this guy and his oligarchic ilk.
Shame on you for mentioning his name. He represents everything that is wrong with this party.

Or do you make all your political decisions based on personality?

Seriously. Enough is enough. It is time for the new generation.

But no one has stayed on topic to disagree with what he's said about where Democrats need to go.

And I will point out that he is a Democratic public figure, one of the most influential through two Presidencies and successful in getting more Democrats elected to Congress since 2000 than any DNC chair or anyone else who has served as the Congressional election chair of the party. So the bashing that is going on here is not productive, or beneficial to any Democratic party cause, aside from the fact that no one is disagreeing with his points.

Exactly where was he during the 2024 campaign? Missing in action.

If other Dems are saying the same thing, then spotlight those other Dems and leave Rahm on the bench.