“I can’t do what she [AOC] does, because we live in a purple state and I’m a pragmatist.“
= compromise with the Nazis to keep your position
“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump?”
Uh gee maybe if the rest of y’all got on the same page instead of impeding them and folding to the Republicans then we could actually have some sort of defense against him and his cronies?
She’s self righteous, but there’s a grain of truth there.
Having super progressives win every primary is the Republicans’ wet dream. Sanders runs in an urban state where he can win nearly every county; AOC represents The Bronx and Queens. Elissa beat a progressive candidate, a former actor, in the Democratic primary with 76% of the vote, yet won the general by 0.3%.
No way even AOC or Bernie would win there.
So, heck, what is she supposed to do? She already voted against the funding bill.
Maybe the problem is people don’t want to vote for lite-republicans, they want people that will actually try to inprove their lives. Democrats ahould jave spent the last 8 years talking about how they are going to make things better, not just hoping people will vote for them over fascists
If that were true in Michigan, the primary would have at least been close.
Normal people don’t vote in primaries. Only the party faithful do, especially when the big ticket nominee is all but decided.
So first, just in case what was that other candidate’s platform? And second, copious amounts of donor money is my bet. Or just progressives not voting in primaries, as usual.
The other candidate’s platform was that he did something with an anti-trans comedian, and then vanished off the face of the earth
Dem governor, majority Dem senate, 5-2 Dem supreme court, home of the UAW, first city to decriminalize weed, highest concentration of Arab-Americans in the country, originators of the “Uncommitted” movement, witness to the Flint water crisis…
Bernie won MI in the 2016 primary, despite trailing Hillary by 20% in polls.
That chart shows people being pissed off at the Democratic national party. Not being afraid of progressive politics. Slotkin’s passivity isn’t going to help.
Eh, if anything it just shows where the people are. Ie, cities.
did you just call fucking vermont an urban state? lol.
Land does not vote. People do. And Trump didn’t win a majority of votes in any US election or in any Michigan election.
Vermont is a rural state.
One of a very few rural blue states, along with New Mexico.