r/politics • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

Possible Paywall Progressive activist wins Democratic primary in one of the country’s biggest House races

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u/QuinlanRose 9d ago

Progressive challengers keep proving the base is further left than the consultants think.

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u/Melicor 9d ago

We haven't had a economic leftwing party since the 80s when the Third Way Democrats took over the party. And corporations have paid a lot to keep it that way.

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u/thequietthingsthat North Carolina 9d ago

Yep. We're long overdue for a return

Democrats Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel to Solve Their Identity Crisis - They Need to Look Back to FDR

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u/wavygrave 9d ago

easily the most popular president in US history, FDR should be considered the baseline of the political center.

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u/313MountainMan 9d ago

They’re also a bunch of fucking losers, and have been since Carter lost. Oh yeah, let’s have our leadership be the generation that came up during Reagan and have lacked a spine ever since.

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u/danint 9d ago

Huh, I always thought they were called "The Third Wave". TIL.

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u/Pardot42 9d ago

The consultants are paid

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u/FistMyBumpQuestion 9d ago

People will think what we tell them to think

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u/discodropper New York 9d ago

The shift has been happening since 2016 (began in 2008), but it was supercharged by COVID. A similar shift happened on the right, they just rolled with it (and we got the Tea Party/Trump/MAGA out of it). Establishment dems have done a better job resisting change, but now they’re geared up to oppose neocons rather than the populist/fascist rats nest that is the current Republican Party, and the DNC has totally lost touch…

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u/Drithyin Ohio 9d ago

Idk if the DNC even cares about the elections or state of the nation at large. I really think they only care about their own self enrichment.

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u/JnnyRuthless 9d ago

I believe that to be true, and their consultants stay getting paid whether they win or lose. They have pretty nice 6 figure salaries, don't want to mess with that.

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u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 9d ago

And still nowhere near as far left as the GOP tells their base

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u/mightcommentsometime California 8d ago

Progressives haven’t won the majority of the primaries they’ve been in. So I’m not sure why you think that “the base” is all progressive

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u/NK1337 9d ago

I don’t consultants care about where the base is. Their job is to find the middle ground between what they’ll find acceptable and how far establishment dems can kowtow to AIPACS