Progressives learned in 2018 that they are not able to flip Republican seats, but they can win upsets in Democratic primaries. This attempt to seize the commanding heights of the party by knocking out the centrist leadership is another fascinating way polarization is playing outhttps://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1234171129218002945 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
Had you considered that one reason democrats (not progressives) can't flip republican seats is that they're just republicans lite and nobody likes them?
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This is the standard argument from the left about why we lose, and that a more full-throated articulation of our values, and a real contrast in policy, would have a better chance at winning those seats. But I don't think the evidence shows that to be true.
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Replying to @Pinboard
There's no "we." The Democrats are Animal Farm. I'm sick of being told that all we can get is a slightly slower move to the right, and a slighty smaller heap of corpses, and a slightly less fascist society. Deeply disappointed to see you support these people.
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Replying to @substitute
Which people? The four people I'm trying to get elected?
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Replying to @Pinboard
No. This right-wing Democratic party whose talking points you're repeating. The message that we can't stand for anything. The dismissal of principals as "oh that standard argument from the left" as though Jimmy Carter was Lenin. Stop!
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I wasn't saying that in a pejorative way, I was trying to be descriptive. I made this argument myself in 2018 and see the merit. Look, the problem is we have a structural strong right tilt in the electoral college and Senate, and to fix it we need to win within those rules
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It is very important to win the Senate this year, and if there is evidence that we can do it without running to the right, I will be delighted and act on it. But I will also bend my personal lefty beliefs like a reed if that is what it takes to put up electable Democrats who win
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Right now the most despicable centrist Democrat stands for a public option, for pay equality and reproductive rights, stronger unions, climate science, an end to atrocities at our border and a lot of other stuff I know you and I both believe in
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