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MAGA took over the Republican Party for a reason if the progressives were able to organize their way out of a paper bag they could do it themselves.
That reason is that the GOP allowed them to. In 2016 the GOP held an extremely competitive primary and actively embraced MAGA as their new path to success, while the DNC decided to make sure a progressive doesn't get the nomination again even at the cost of losing the election.
Bingo
You guys need to get over the whole Bernie thing.
He didn’t win the primary.
Congratulations on your victory over the only people you're interested in defeating.
I have not defeated MAGA yet.
And you won't accomplish that by only punching left.
The Democratic Party needs to get it through their thick skulls that the voters who make up the margin of victory do not vote in Democratic primaries.
A lot of the time they don’t vote in the general either.
They don't vote in the general for a neoliberal.
There's this consistent condescending assumption that the Democrats have that anybody who refuses to vote for a neoliberal would never vote for any possible Democratic candidate, and it just isn't true.
But the reason Trump wanted to run against Sanders is because Trump would wipe the floor with him.
If it means shutting out progressives, you will assume that trump is both right and being honest.
Yes, because the DNC did everything it could to mske sure he didn't win the primary.
Remember Debbie Wasserman Schultz? Unfortunately, I do.
He was on every single ballot. Every one. I voted for him. He didn't win, not because the DNC screwed him, but because THE VOTERS DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM.
The delegates voted for Clinton.
Well, join them.