• M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Fucking Harry S. Truman got why this shit was a problem.

    I’ve seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn’t believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign. (May 17, 1952)

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    Yeah, that’ll work and not make you look like a grifter to the fascist crowd. Fucking idiot, why would they vote for the Republican Lite Party when the Republican Party is right there???

    paid to lose

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    Remember that if you are a real political party, your end goal is to enact policy. Winning election is just one mean (amongst many) to achieve that.

    Abandoning policy to win election means that you are an unserious political party, some would say a lifestyle brand

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      The Uniparty have the same core policy as ever.
      Endless war and regime changes, unconditional support for Pissrael genociders, banks, multinationals and oligarchs.

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    Tbh I’m not sure most of your typical Dem voters are gonna fall for this type of right wing framing from Dem politicians anymore. I’m not saying AOC has a clear shot at being nomination, but anecdotally when I engage with Dem voters in my personal life (of all ages), they honestly seem fed up with the Dems constantly trying to outflank Republicans from the right. I actually think a Dem that embraces the “maybe we should be democrats” idea (say like Pritzker) probably could win the nomination.

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    acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.

    Slotkin plans to deliver another speech — which is set to focus on “killing sacred cows” — sometime next month.

    “I don’t think we need to hide the fact that Trump is flooding the zone and making us look 12 different ways at the same time,” Slotkin said. “But again, because I come from the national security background, there’s no end to fighting unless you’re dead.”

    We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

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      There are totally doing the jungle primary with CIAkin as the pick. There is a Berniecrat running. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

      tails-startled Even has a foreign policy tab. which proceeds to immediately fumble backing ukkkraine

      tails-pout When we act alongside our allies–as in supporting Ukraine against Russian invasion–we find ourselves on the right side of justice. It’s when we break the rules we worked so hard to set up–as in Vietnam or Iraq–that we make critical, deadly mistakes. picard

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      I have been predicting since ~2018 that the so-called “competent fascist” after Trump was going to come from the Democrat party. Elissa Slotkin may not be that person, but her rhetoric over the last couple months has kept me confident in that prediction.

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        I have been predicting since ~2018 that the so-called “competent fascist” after Trump was going to come from the Democrat party.

        Were you asleep for the entirety of the last 4 years? biden-harbinger

        part-of-history

        America had its “competent fascist” and is now very clearly beyond the need to hide anything.