Rahm Emanuel, 2028?
Emanuel seems to be intent on positioning himself as the more moderate Democrat for 2028. It’s a segment that’s wide open, except for John Fetterman:
Likely 2028 Democratic presidential contender Rahm Emanuel sat down this week with Michael Moynihan, co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. A veteran of American politics, he has served as a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, a member of Congress, mayor of Chicago, and U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Reflecting on the current state of his party, Emanuel told Moynihan, “Democrats have lost the plot.”
“We lost the plot. We, as Democrats, nationally, from Latinx to defunding the police, to police organizations are all racist, to bringing a set of cultural wars to our schools, we are on the losing side of those cultural wars. Full Stop.
“You are worried about bathroom access and locker room access, why don’t you focus on classroom excellence? You have 50% of our kids not reading at grade level.”
I don’t think Emanuel has a chance of being nominated by the Democrats in 2028, for one very simple reason: he’s Jewish and the party has become highly anti-Semitic. I also wouldn’t trust his “moderate” declarations, although his record is indeed moderate compared to most of his fellow-Democrats these days. But beware: Spanberger of Virginia, to take one prominent example, campaigned as a moderate but once in office became radical in terms of actions.
I do know, at least based on anecdotal evidence of a friend of mine, that there are indeed voters yearning for moderate candidates and willing to vote for them. How numerous this voting group is I do not know.
He Lies. Period
One persons Moderate is another person Far Left or Far Right. Moderate has to be defined by those that yearn for a Moderate
Unnatural scorpions always eventually strike, even when it causes their own demise. It is their nature.
For the greater good. Of course.
An actual moderate could account honestly for his past immoderation(s). Doubt we’ll see any of that from this guy.
None of the above matters, though, does it? Rahm will run because he has The Hunger. He has presidential ambitions, and his track record of federal and state service are all highlights for someone aspiring to that position. He’s been a Presidential advisor, a Chief of Staff, a State Representative, the mayor of a major Democratic city in a powerful Democratic state, and an Ambassador. He’s comparatively young, reasonably glib, and remains unconvicted or marred by any indelible scandals. You bet he’s running.
The other thing that I would note is that maybe people are starting to notice, whomever attains office as a Democrat seems to have limited control over what happens next. The Party takes over once the office has been won. Sometimes the winner seems to be on board with what is being done, and sometimes they don’t even seem to notice.
“Emanuel seems to be intent on positioning himself as the more moderate Democrat for 2028.
Mr. “Never let a crisis go to waste” can easily be tied to Spanberger’s actions. Plus, what ‘moderate’ policy positions can he offer that the dems increasingly divorced from reality activist base will accept?
Left, right, moderate, as others have pointed out are relative terms. Relative to where the Democratic Party has gone, he is indeed a moderate.
“Latinx”, talk about out of touch …
I would not trust Imanuel. You are known by the company you keep, and he runs with evil doers.
Hmm … Rahm Emmanuel danced ballet seriously as a young man:
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Rahm was encouraged by his mother to take ballet lessons, and is a graduate of the Evanston School of Ballet, as well as a student of the Joel Hall Dance Center, where his children later took lessons. He won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet, but turned it down to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a liberal arts school with a strong dance program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
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Joffrey Ballet. No small thing. Even I’ve heard of it.
That won’t help him become president but it is interesting.
@ Huxley: “Joffrey Ballet. … won’t help him become president but it is interesting.”
What do you mean?! He has all the required political dance skills: leaping to conclusions, jumping over negative issues, spinning the news to his liking, bowing to the powers that be, splitting the difference, turning on a dime, etc.
He’ll win entirely the Democrat vote that wants the party of Kennedy and Clinton, and we’ll all learn what percentage of the party that constitutes. I predict we’re going to be very disappointed.
He’s not just another pretty face!
He’s not wrong about the state of public education in America. His comment about Latinx is a reference to the politics of identity that Democrats went into headfirst. But it just sounds like moderate buzzwords without conviction. He is after all the ideology behind the Obama doctrine. This smells like an attempt by Democrats Elites to sell the idea that Democrats are really moderates that got off to the side temporarily.
How immoderate must a candidate be to turn the moderate-yearners off?
I am sure the Democrat/ Marxist are confident vote fraud will get them in, just have to be the Candidate and your sure to be in the White house.
If you believe, as I do, that nearly all current support for Democrats comes from pure TDS then we can expect more moderate Democrats to run for office in 2028 because Trump will be set to retire and voters can vote for candidates that are on the 80 side of the country’s 80/20 issues (voter id, the definition of a woman, etc.).
“I don’t think Emanuel has a chance of being nominated by the Democrats in 2028, for one very simple reason: he’s Jewish and the party has become highly anti-Semitic.”
Ditto for Gov Josh Shapiro of PA.
What’s incredible is that both of these guys know that the Dems hate Jews, and still they are dems and vote for Dems.
Unbelievable.
I don’t think everyone who runs thinks they can win. I think some have nothing better to do so they are in it for the grift.
Emanuel has little chance for himself for 2028, but will be an important “moderate” voice so most Dems stay Dem, and vote Dem. Plus a big Overton Window opening on most issues.
What about 2032? If not him, who’s both a dancer (thx R2L) and a policy wonk (as am I), then another. The Dems need to lose so big that reps actually do lots of Rep things, before the desire to win overrides the desire for moral superiority (in their own heads). Seem unlikely 2026, but I really don’t know. It’s too early until we have a more stable Iran. It seems Venezuela is stable now.
I called this a while back on this site. I think he will be the candidate.
Rahm Emmanuel is a Clintonian, and that’s not a compliment. It’s become fashionable these days to contrast the Clinton ‘moderation’ with the rad-Left modern Dems. What this overlooks is that Bill Clinton and Co. laid the groundwork for what followed with Obama and Biden and the current Dems.
Bill Clinton personally, IMHO, is basically just a self-interested grifter. His own principles are ‘whatever is best for Bill Clinton’. I do think he loves Chelsea, but I suspect that’s about the limit of his caring for others, except conditionally.
But his Administration was packed with rad-Lefties. Remember that his first 2 years was dominated by Hillary, who IMHO was the functional President from 1993 to 1995. They tried to implement a lot of the same stuff the Dems want now, and it cost them control of the House of Representatives for the first time in ~40 years.
Bill immediately pivoted, pretending to moderate, but behind the scenes they were still pushing the anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Christian, anti-human agenda. All the damage done by Obama, Biden, Pelosi, etc. since then was made possible by the Clintons.
So Emmanuel can be assumed to be a Trojan Moderate.
— neo
Numerous enough to be dangerous. That’s part of how Spanberger pulled off her deception. I’ve pointed out before that there is a notable group of voters who are, at heart, Truman/Kennedy Democrats, and who hate the modern Dem radicalism and anti-Americanism. They are a significant chunk of Reagan and Trump’s voting power.
But they still hate the GOP business wing.
At heart, what they want, desperately, is for the Dems to drop the 60s liberalism and progressivism and return to that they were before the 1970s. When a Democrat comes along that appears to be a move in that direction, they often lunge for it in desperate gratitude. It worked for Spangberger. It helped Bill Clinton get a second term. It’s part of Biden’s appeal ‘lunch pail Joe’ in 2020.
So yeah, Emmanuel could be dangerous as nominee. Fortunately, I doubt he can get the nomination.
— Tom Grey
2032?! We haven’t even gotten to 2026 yet!
Trying to handicap Presidential nominations, much less elections, this far ahead is a mug’s game at best. Let’s review a little history.
The last time a Presidential election nominated both the candidates the conventional wisdom expected, and then the election itself turned out as conventional wisdom predicted, was 1996. IIRC Dole was more or less the favorite for the GOP nod and of course Bill Clinton was the incumbent, and everyone expected Clinton to win, popular and electoral, which he did (though not by as big a margin as expected).
GWB was more or less conventionally expected to get the GOP nod in 2000, and he did. But he then went on to win an upset victory over Al Gore, who was predicted to cruise to victory on the back of Clinton’s supposed popularity, like Bush I in 1988.
‘Of course’ the GOP would lose being in 2002, it was an off-year election after all, and ‘of course’ everyone hated them (at least according to the media)…and they gained seats.
In 2004 ‘everyone knew’ Howard Dean would get the Dem nod, right up until the first primaries, where he melted. It ended up being John Kerry, who everyone knew was going to beat Bush I, and who won a second upset November victory.
In 2008, ‘everyone knew’ it was going to come down to Rudy Giuliani against Hillary Clinton. It ended up being John McCain vs. Barack Obama.
In 2012, all the excitement was around Mitch Daniels for the GOP nod, until he self-destructed with a call for a ‘truce on the social issues’ in a print interview before the first primary vote was cast.
Then of course in 2016, this time it was for sure, it would be Hillary Clinton for the Dems and The Inevitable Jeb for the GOP, and of course everyone hated the Bushes so Hillary was a guaranteed lock in November. We all know how that turned out.
Predicting this stuff ahead of time, before a single vote gets cast, is mostly just guesswork.