One question Democratic voters can ask themselves is which candidate is most likely to strike a bipartisan deal with Mitch McConnell to trim Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and which ones are most likely to fight McConnell on this.https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1218660584155156480 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
McConnell can convince Republicans that Bernie/Warren want to make the social spending problem exponentially worse. He can't do that with other candidates who can make good arguments that targeted increases in social spending will pay off for longer run. (Also, you're Canadian)
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Replying to @dailydishwater
It's telling that your main concern is making a pitch to Republicans. Bernie/Warren are focused on winning and mobilizing Democratic voters.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Pfft. I'm obviously not talking about a pitch for voters. I'm talking about our pitch for social policy expansion (universal health care via a public option, growing social security & medicaid, for example) after the Dems win the presidency.
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Replying to @dailydishwater
Well in that case it's telling that you find McConnell's view of social policy more persuasive than Bernie/Warren.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You're not in good faith. McConnell wants to constrict social policy and I'm in favor of the Democrats who can best prevent him from doing that and get the opposite done. Bernie-Warren policies give us at best a statement. In contrast, ACA just won 150K free health care in Kansas
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Replying to @dailydishwater @HeerJeet
Jeet can sit in Canada and tell us how to run our campaigns and country (and be self righteous about it)....we nominate his favored candidate, they lose, and it doesn't affect him at all. Worse, the day after the loss he will have a column blaming everyone else in the party.
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I think you greatly overstate my power to influence how campaigns are run in any country.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @dailydishwater
I didn't mean to suggest we would do this because of you....just that it might happen that we nominate your favored candidate. And, you are a prominent writer for a prominent journal of opinion among leftist.
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