{"id":2374855,"date":"2024-12-01T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-house-democrat-lays-into-toxic-party-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:18:21","slug":"former-house-democrat-lays-into-toxic-party-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-house-democrat-lays-into-toxic-party-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Former House Democrat lays into &#8216;toxic&#8217; party &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-house-democrat-lays-into-toxic-party-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2374855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u200dOhio\u2064 Democratic Representative Tim\u2063 Ryan\u200c has called for a significant rebranding of\u2064 the Democratic Party following their disappointing performance in the 2024 elections. During an appearance on MSNBC, Ryan criticized the\u200c current Democratic brand as &#8220;toxic&#8221; and emphasized the need for a complete overhaul within the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He argued that the party\u200d must reconnect with middle-class \u200cvoters who feel alienated, expressing concern about the party&#8217;s approach to crucial\u2062 issues such \u2063as energy and finance. Ryan highlighted that voters, particularly in Ohio, feel hesitant\u200d to fully support Democrats, noting that many are forced to vote for\u2064 Republican candidates like Donald\u200b Trump due to disillusionment. To regain trust, he\u2062 advocated for a return to core Democratic \u200cvalues that prioritize working-class interests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-smith-runs-to-supreme-court-asks-justices-to-make-their-first-ruling-on-trump\/\" title=\"Jack Smith seeks Supreme Court ruling on Trump\">robust economic \u2063growth<\/a>, and effective governance. Ryan lamented the\u2064 lack of a clear plan to modernize government, illustrating the \u200burgency for the Democrats to redefine\u2064 their identity and policies to address public concerns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Former House Democrat lays into &lsquo;toxic&rsquo; party, calls for &lsquo;rebrand&rsquo; after election blowout<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1895580\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As assessments of what went wrong for <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrats<\/a> in the 2024 election have poured in over the past few weeks and the party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3238897\/dnc-chair-election-foreshadows-fight-party-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"searches\">searches<\/a> for its next leader, one former House member is calling for a &ldquo;complete rebranding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking on MSNBC&rsquo;s <em>The Weekend<\/em>, former Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who launched a failed Senate bid against then-candidate J.D. Vance in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/ex-dem-rep-tim-ryan-warns-on-msnbc-his-own-party-is-toxic-to-voters-what-are-we-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"slammed\">slammed<\/a> the current Democratic &ldquo;brand&rdquo; as &ldquo;toxic&rdquo; and emphasized the need for a &ldquo;complete reboot with the DNC.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need a rebrand. &hellip; Our brand is toxic, in so many places, and it&rsquo;s like, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re a Democrat?&rsquo; Like that&rsquo;s the stuff we get in Ohio. And so we need a complete reboot, we need a complete reboot with the DNC, we need a complete rebranding. We got to get back established into our values,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan claimed that the public &ldquo;want[s] to trust&rdquo; Democrats and that middle-class people are &ldquo;holding their nose&rdquo; to vote for President-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>, even as he improved significantly in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">voting blocs typically dominated<\/a> by Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan laid into his party in a MSNBC appearance on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ryan pinned the disconnect between the Democratic Party and the middle class on energy policy and issues with the finance industry and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We did not give them enough, like, we&rsquo;re reindustrializing, we&rsquo;re talking about American competitiveness, we&rsquo;re moderate on things like natural gas in Western PA which ended up being a big issue that we can&rsquo;t even be for natural gas displacing coal. We&rsquo;re in a huge fight with the crypto industry, like, what are we doing? Why would we be in a fight with the crypto industry right now?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3238494\/altcoin-crypto-market-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"surged \">surged <\/a>since Trump&rsquo;s win, as the industry views the incoming Trump administration as more friendly to digital assets, particularly since Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3226564\/bitcoin-proponents-anticipate-help-from-trump-sending-crypto-soaring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"seen \">seen <\/a>as hostile to crypto, is stepping down.<\/p>\n<p>For Ryan, the solution for Democrats is to &ldquo;get back to the bread and butter policies of &lsquo;We are the party of the middle class.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matters-most-prominent-chapter-launches-drive-targeting-police-unions\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter\u2019s Most Prominent Chapter Launches Drive Targeting Police Unions\">working-class person<\/a>, the Democratic Party is for you. And here&rsquo;s how we&rsquo;re going to build that future. We&rsquo;re gonna reshore chips, we&rsquo;re gonna build batter[ies]. &hellip; We have to lead with the economy,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by lamenting the fact that Democrats&rsquo; did not have a &ldquo;reinventing government plan&rdquo; similar to Trump&rsquo;s newly created Department of Government Efficiency, despite every government &ldquo;system&rdquo; being &ldquo;broken.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We let Elon Musk and Vivek [Ramaswamy] take on reinventing government. The whole world knows that the American government is broken. Immigration&rsquo;s broken, healthcare&rsquo;s broken, education&rsquo;s broken &mdash; every system that we have is broken. We had no reinventing government plan,&rdquo; Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump recently tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new agency, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3240478\/doge-withhold-federal-aid-states-criminal-aliens-mtg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"aims \">aims <\/a>to make massive cuts to government spending.<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats search for solutions, various figures have entered the race to be the chair of the Democratic National Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3245963\/new-yorker-pitches-himself-as-an-outsider-candidate-for-dnc-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"including\">including<\/a> a New York state senator who is pitching himself as an anti-establishment force. The DNC will host four candidate forums in January for candidates to pitch themselves as the next leader of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1895580\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1895580\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Democrat criticizes &#8216;toxic&#8217; party, urges rebranding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2374856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tim-ryan-democrats-rebrand.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33675,45933,32076],"class_list":["post-2374855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-former-house-democrat","tag-toxic-party","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tim-ryan-democrats-rebrand.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374859,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374855\/revisions\/2374859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}