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Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique | Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison (www.theguardian.com)
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Democrats are committed to losing and are turning towards "we gotta be more racist and transphobic".

Seth Moulton also turning on trans people and outright declaring himself transphobic after prior tweets recognising things like Trans Day of Remembrance.

https://x.com/SLCLunk/status/1854597079773200550

"Progressive era has to end" from Elise Jordan. When was there ever one?

https://x.com/LailaAlarian/status/1854151933117788193

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[–] averyminya 2 points 1 week ago

was guaranteed to lose against Kamala and then far-right would splinter and die out and everything would be fine again

At this point the only thing I'm hoping for is that this happens in 4 years when Trump can't legally run as president again. No figurehead, no MAGA.

Wishful thinking, but possible.

As for the democratic party, yeah pretty much. I think it's been clear for a while that voters are unhappy with the DNC and reluctantly accept the lack of actual progressive policy. Much like the Republican party has been split from MAGA and "classical conservatism" for lack of a better phrase, the Democratic party has been split between liberals and leftists.

The difference is that classical conservatives will always vote in party lines, making the MAGA figurehead their guaranteed pick.

Democratic don't always pick their party line. Sometimes we get independents or multiple Democrats, sometimes we just don't show up to vote if the candidate isn't as good as they should be. So like many have been saying, if we get an actual leftist candidate, it's possible we would actually have significantly higher voter turnout.