{"id":12477,"date":"2019-07-26T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:52:07","slug":"pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-could-harm-democrats-reputation-as-ineffectual-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-could-harm-democrats-reputation-as-ineffectual-cowards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Concerned Outspoken Progressive Flank Of Party Could Harm Democrats\u2019 Reputation As Ineffectual Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.theonion.com\/pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-c-1836707083\">July 25, 2019<\/a> (theonion.com)<a href=\"https:\/\/politics.theonion.com\/pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-c-1836707083?utm_medium=sharefromsite&amp;utm_source=theonion_copy&amp;utm_campaign=side\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--wlFhf3WG--\/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/cnm5cyxf7b6zdlypgciw.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration for article titled Pelosi Concerned Outspoken Progressive Flank Of Party Could Harm Democrats\u2019 Reputation As Ineffectual Cowards\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Admitting she had worries about the rise of left-leaning activist groups within her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concerns Thursday that outspoken progressives could do permanent damage to Democrats\u2019 reputation as ineffectual cowards. \u201cThey mean well, but if they continue to aggressively push their agenda like this, they run the risk of fundamentally altering the public\u2019s perception of Democrats as bumbling, feckless chumps,\u201d said Pelosi, adding that this brash brand of politics could be easily manipulated by Republicans to paint the party as something other than a bunch of sniveling wimps who are too weak-willed and complacent to stand up for anything with even remote political risk. \u201cI understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.\u201d Pelosi also noted that her concerns shouldn\u2019t be overstated, as she knew it would take more than a few activists for voters to associate the Democratic party with the vaguest inkling of courage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 25, 2019 (theonion.com) WASHINGTON\u2014Admitting she had worries about the rise of left-leaning activist groups within her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed concerns Thursday that outspoken progressives could do permanent damage to Democrats\u2019 reputation as ineffectual cowards. \u201cThey mean well, but if they continue to aggressively push their agenda&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/pelosi-concerned-outspoken-progressive-flank-of-party-could-harm-democrats-reputation-as-ineffectual-cowards\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12478,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions\/12478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}