Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Worth noting: She's only doing it because it can't pass right now. It's optics, not reality. The establishment is dishonest, not changing.

If she backtracks on it before 2020 she loses a huge amount of credibility and she has to know it. In the mean time MFA becomes normalized

I don't think there's a situation in which a well known politician regarded as a centrist publicly endorsing MFA hurts the cause.

She won't have to backtrack before 2020 because Republicans will control congress at least until then. Point is, this is for show.

And my point is that even if it's a cynical play it necessarily moves the Overton Window leftward and helps the cause of single payer.

No, it harms the cause, because she could get elected based on this lie, and not follow through.

I don't agree. Functionally there's no difference between someone like Harris running on and abandoning SP, and refusing to run on it at all

But discursively running on it normalizes it as a core center-left platform position and will build awareness and support for it long term.