Shadow Cabinet Makeup
All hands on deck to help tow the line
IMPORTANT UPDATE 3/24/2025
THE PLAN TO DEVELOP A “PEOPLES CABINET” PORTION STARTS AROUND MINUTE 42:56. THANKS TO AARON FOWLES FOR THE LEAD.
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This is a post dedicated to the actual makeup of the “shadow cabinet” proposed by Professor Snyder here:
and further described with possible formats in his post here:
In these he suggests several possible formations of the “shadow cabinet”. Below I’ve listed each with numbers for easy reference. Discovering and illuminating ways to facilitate the “shadow cabinet” formation is the goal.
A list of Tim Snyder-authored cabinet ideas:
1. “The chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee is open. Candidates could make a people’s cabinet part of their platform and explain how they would form it. This would be an obvious first step."
2. "Or the ranking members of the relevant House and Senate committees and subcommittees could serve in parallel as the people’s cabinet.”
3. “Or the ranking member of one important congressional committee, such as Judiciary, could assign all of its members to serve as an alternative cabinet.”
4. “Or one respected person of authority could be given the authority by some group of Democrats to form the people’s cabinet.”
5. “Or a caucus within the Democratic Party, impatient with the older generation, could take this up.”
6. “Or a set of Democratic governors could get together..."
Other pertinent comments in the Snyder posts include the following:
(Excerpts from Post # 1, “Shadow Cabinet”)
"More than this -- the members of the shadow cabinet should assert themselves in the media environment. They should not wait for journalists to ask them; they should set the tone of the debates themselves. They should have a mass format by which they can not only sound the warning bells but get across their own positions and advance their own policies — podcasts, for example. A few of them will likely become very popular -- the Democrats have some fantastic communicators, including some (soon-to-be) former members of Biden's cabinet, members of Congress, and governors."
(Doug note: In addition to podcasts, a mode of “mass format” I’ve conceived is a combination of Substack and Bluesky. These can be tied together so basic “tweets” on Bluesky can direct us to the applicable post by the particular shadow cabinet member on Substack.)
"Who should be on the shadow cabinet, and in what capacity? Should there be a shadow president or should that be left aside?"
"I raise these questions not because the problems are insuperable -- on the contrary, they could be addressed by a serious group of a few Democrats in a few days. Candidates to be chair of the DNC should be talking about how this could be done."
(Excerpts from Post # 2, “The People’s Cabinet”)
(includes the list of forms, and);
"The essential point is to figure this out and get started!"
"These first six months of the Mump regime will be axial."
(end of Snyder quotes)
Thank you for your consideration of the makeup of the “The People’s Cabinet”.
I made an outline for this. I think it has to be an organizing test as well as a PR machine.
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I am attracted to Bernie Sanders' recent suggestion that "Democratic" may not be the best label under which to organize the opposition. My initial reaction to Professor Snyder's proposal of a shaddow cabinet was that it should not be seen as a partisan project. Now that it is clear that the regime's policies are harming all constituencies - including MAGA people - a nonpartisan coalition is not only feasible but most likely to weaken Mump's facade of invincibility. This battle is not Democrat versus Republican but democrat versus autocrat/oligarch.