• ZILtoid1991
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    1 month ago

    Issue with that tactic is that it’s actively being used to justify Chuck Schumer’s “for every big city liberal we alienate, we will gain 3 to 4 hillbillies from the rural area” schtick, which is costing democrats elections and us (the world) the real progressive movement.

      • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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        1 month ago

        He doesn’t care.

        The Democratic leadership would rather lose to the right than win with the left. Because the leadership is far to the right of the base.