• SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Chapo had a guy on semi-recently who advanced a pretty compelling narrative, not that she was an op, but that she was just never as progressive as her support base wanted her to be. Same thing basically happened with Bernie, everyone who is even just center-left really wants someone to glom onto and these are the best options the system is capable of spitting out.

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      8 months ago

      She fired her activist chief of staff who fought for her during the election, and replaced him with a former Kamala Harris’s foreign policy aide.

      She could deny all she wants, but her initial electoral success was built on a progressive base who volunteered and staffed her campaign office.

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      I think this is a pretty sane read on it. People love projecting their hopes on the young, new upstart (see: Obama) and it makes them feel like there’s some momentum, and maybe some room to get them to back more progressive stuff.

      Any “progressive” democrat that retains their seat after one election is sus to me, because we have seen how the DNC destroys all things leftist.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Idk wearing an “eat the rich” dress, openly id’ing as a socialist, the chief of staff issue mentioned below, feels demonstrably more left-signaling than the Biden term