The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
It’s so nice that the national party has to step in to save us from ourselves. Otherwise we might elect a progressive instead of the anti-choice candidate they prefer.
Is it your belief that Joe Biden is “anti-choice?”
Because he is 100% the pick of the Dem Party
It’s my belief that the party will abandon any principle to shut out progressives, and Coathanger Cuellar shows that.
That’s silly, since there is literally a progressive Dem caucus, and it has more members in 2023 than in the past 60 years.
The party doesn’t always succeed in shutting out progressives. They’re just willing to prop up anti-choice candidates if that’s what it takes. Congratulations on Cuellar.
The party is focused on winning elections, and that means catering to messaging that is popular in districts that exist. People vote, and you don’t always agree with the people voting.
Democrats aren’t Republicans. They’re a coalition with varied ideas, not a group marching in lockstep.
And that involves propping up centrist candidates when they’re in danger of losing primaries? Sounds like they don’t care who is popular, just who isn’t progressive.
The most radical members of parties control primaries of you don’t do that, which leads to blowout losses in contested districts (where the party will prop members up) and ever-increasing radicalization in other districts.
Do you like that the Republican Party is marching in lockstep toward fascism? Because what you’re arguing for is why they are.
So why have primaries at all, then?
Your assertion that centrists are even remotely interested in stopping fascism is completely ridiculous. If centrists fought fascism instead of fighting progressives, I’d have less of a problem with them.