‘They call us extreme, they call us radical,’ the progressive Senate candidate said. ‘But I think people see through that’
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
In conservative Florida, Alex Vindman – a retired army intelligence officer who blew this whistle on Donald Trump in his first term – appeared set to carry the Democratic establishment banner as the party staged a long-shot bid to topple a Republican US senator.
Florida’s Democratic voters had other ideas.
Democratic socialist Angie Nixon emerged a surprise victor in the US Senate primary on Tuesday, after a campaign in which she was outfunded and outspent by Vindman at a ratio of more than 10 to one.
They were “establishment Dems” when they controlled the DNC, because that’s the political establishment…
They don’t anymore, but even when they did it always made sense to call them by their faction name: neoliberals.
Who is the “establishment” changes. And the current one supports Mamdani, El-Sayed, (Angie) Nixon, and all the rest of the progressives winning primaries.
Billionaires and neoliberals still in office want people to think they’re still “the establishment” because they’d rather lose to Republicans than see progressives win.
Shitting on the Dem party right now is just helping the people you’re pissed off at buddy
Last I checked Hakeem Jeffries was still the House Minority Leader, Leader of the House Democratic Caucus, and Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Still actively using the same talking points the party has used against big progressive goals like Medicare for All that they have for years now. The same with Chuck Schumer in the Senate. And while Ken Martin didn’t take over the DNC Chair until 2025, he was a vice-Chair from 2017-2021, he’s not exactly coming from outside the old establishment.
You claim that the “establishment” has changed, but it is the same group of people in charge that have been there for decades. Democratic Socialist candidates are winning despite the DNC doing the bare minimum to help, and the DNC is taking credit for their success just like they always do for whoever wins in the primaries.
Yep, him and Schumer’s leadership elections were in January 2025. Its voters was elected reps, and at the time the current DNC under Jamie Harrison would have bankrupted state parties if their reps didn’t vote neoliberal .
The DNC chair election was feburary 2025.
It’s voted on by the ~420 voting members of the DNC, they pivoted away from neoliberalism, and picked a chair who dumped all the “victory fund” money back on state parties. That was the cudgel neoliberals (specifically Schumer and Jefferies) used to get elected, it’s gone now…
You’re talking about DSCC and DCCC like they’re important, try to go find mentions of anyone giving a fuck about them prior to February 2025.
Neoliberals are pretending those things matter, because they lost the DNC 18 months ago
If you think the DNC should help any candidate in a primary, either you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re the same as a neoliberal just with different policy position.
A bias in the opposite direction is still a problem.
On an equal playingfield progressives will dominate, and have been for the last 18 months you haven’t been paying attention
I already brought up the current Chair (Ken Martin) in my comment… he was a vice-chair from 2017-2021 previously. He’s NOT new. Moving some funds around to more local races one time makes you think he’s somehow fundamentally different?
You expect people to believe that things in the party fundamentally changed between Schumer and Jeffries being elected to leadership in January, and the DNC chair election in February where a previous vice-Chair got the big seat.
The same dipshits are in charge and you’re apparently fine with it because they threw you a bone, once, recently. Just shows how gullible some Democrats are to simple tricks, just like the entire Republican base.
While at the same time being the chair of Minnesota’s state party, and under him it went from purple to solid blue and the home of some of our most progressive representatives especially on the topic of Israel…
I really don’t think you understand what a vice chair does, or that c chair can do anything they want.
I get it, up until 18 months ago I spent 30 years saying the same thing you are today, it was super easy and even tho I paid attention, I didn’t need to, because nothing changed.
But then 18 months ago it changed…
Look around at what’s happened since then.
If I’m right, everything is working as intended
If you’re right, Martin is so incompetent that he might as well be helping progressives. But if you think the voting members of the DNC put him there to oppose progressives, wouldn’t getting rid of him just mean his replacement is better at holding progressives down?
Like, there’s no way any sort of logic works out to back up what you’re doing.
Which is trying to get people tuned out of the Dem party months before one of the most important midterms of your fucking life
Edit:
Nevermind, your already on my blocklist as your account(s) from other instances, and it’s obvious facts and logic haven’t magically started working so I’ll add your new account to the same list your other account(s) are on.