{"id":146336,"date":"2025-04-30T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146336"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:00:20","slug":"a-rising-democratic-star-pitches-a-resistance-2-0-in-the-age-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146336","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Rising Democratic Star Pitches a \u2018Resistance 2.0\u2019 in the Age of Trump&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/us\/politics\/greg-casar-trump-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;These days, Mr. Casar, 35, is the chairman of the House Progressive Caucus and a rising star in a Democratic Party struggling to find its footing during the second coming of President Trump. He has shifted his emphasis to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe can\u2019t be known as the party of just the most vulnerable people,\u201d Mr. Casar, the bilingual son of Mexican immigrants, said in a recent interview in an Uber en route to a town hall in Thornton, Colo. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about lifting up the poorest people, and that\u2019s where the progressive movement has been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Mr. Casar\u2019s goal now is winning back the working people who feel as though the Democratic Party is not for them anymore. He said that also means making economic matters, rather than cultural or identity issues, the party\u2019s bread and butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m shifting and changing,\u201d he said. \u201cOn immigration, for example, in 2017, I would say, \u2018Immigrant rights are human rights.\u2019 I still believe that, but I\u2019m now saying, \u2018We need to make sure that all workers have equal rights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He and his team refer to it as Resistance 2.0, and Mr. Casar took it out for a test drive last week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;These days, Mr. Casar, 35, is the chairman of the House Progressive Caucus and a rising star in a Democratic Party struggling to find its footing during the second coming of President Trump. He has shifted his emphasis to respond. \u201cWe can\u2019t be known as the party of just the most vulnerable people,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146337,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146336\/revisions\/146337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}