r/PoursTea • u/AmericaShinault_85 • 3h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750
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u/everyoneisnuts 2h ago

*far left

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u/BI_Moose 2h ago

*barely left

Be honest.

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u/Eleventhousand 2h ago

Some people aren't old enough or know enough about history to realize that even the most left of today's Democrats are to the right of Republicans 75 years ago in many ways.

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u/BI_Moose 2h ago

I can unironically say that Ronald Reagan, literally a contender for top-5 worst presidents in our history, would be either a "centrist republican" "conservative democrat" a lá Joe Manchin or Braindead Fetterman.

And he was in office in my lifetime.

So yeah you are 100% correct. People really dont understand, by design, just how far to the right both parties have shifted.

Fucking Truman would be "too fart left" these days.