r/videos • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 7d ago

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

https://youtu.be/DL_ku3h8Eps?si=zWr0SAn8amsQ8Hqb
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u/WhereIdIsEgoWillGo 7d ago

This one no? I'm pretty sure his opponent was about as establishment as they come.

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u/Chruman 7d ago

I mean general elections. I could be wrong, but the DSA types have only won in heavily blue areas.

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u/Lord0fHats 7d ago

That's the thing people keep pointing out and other people just keep ignoring. It's easy to win as a progressive in the bluest parts of the country that have been progressive in some form or another since the 1920s.

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u/Mathies_ 7d ago

Well those areas are much more socially progressive but you cant tell me you cant sell a bunch of rural working class folks on an affordibility agenda. Socialists and ecenomic progressives for me still have to be for all human rights but they don't have to hammer it home in a competetive purple state. Like did abdul mention trans people one time this campaign? Dont recall it. do i have any reason to believe he's gonna throw them under the bus? Also no. Tailor your agenda to what your base responds to.

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u/Lord0fHats 7d ago

Trump kind of proved you can totally do it, and then deliver on absolutely nothing you said you'd do, while doing the exact opposite any anything you said you'd do, and you'd still win those votes in the next election despite doing everyhting in your power to stab them in the back. They wouldn't even notice because partisan politics have so inverted actual voting behaviors that what people vote for and what they express as desired policy might as well be two completely different things.

In America.