‘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.
Yeah, this is just self-destructive. There’s a good reason that the Democratic party tried to prevent it.
The people voting in the primary are the people who would vote for a Democrat in the general… and this is who they chose.
Who we trust more: the people who vote, or the establishment Democratic Party leaders?
Ashley Moody, the Republican candidate, was elected by a 21-point margin last time. If only the people voting in the Democratic primary vote for the Democrat in the general election, the Democrat definitely loses. So yeah, in this case I trust establishment leaders to do what might have won the election. Vindman still probably would have lost, but at least he had a chance.
It’s democracy, not football. Representation matters more than the colour of the shirt on the winner.
If the entire Democrat party shifts to the right, who represents the left? What’s even the point of the Dems winning if they’re just a bunch of MAGAts in blue ties?
Vindman wouldn’t have been a MAGA Republican.
Ok. That’s fair. But Vindman is obviously to the right of the Democratic voter base, so he would’ve dragged the party further to the right than the people the Democrats are supposed to represent. That is a problem. And for the past few decades, we’ve seen western democracies drift to the right as a result of this mechanic. Now, we have proto-fascists in high office. That needs to stop.
Elections need to be fair.
This attitude is a cancer to progressive reform. Vote for the candidate with the better policies and you will have progressive reform in this country. “Electability” is literally the only argument liberals have at this point for picking centrists over left flank candidates. If that argument actually had validity: the left flank candidate wouldn’t have won the primary; and the “electable” candidates would have previously won. Is there one centrist dem a majority of people even like?
Obama.