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Hardline progressive candidates are actually better at attracting Republican voters than moderate establishment Democrats. But y’all ain’t ready for that conversation.
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Anonymous 11w

Louder for the people in the back

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Anonymous 11w

Tell me more about this

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Anonymous 11w

Then why are they only winning in deep blue states?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

so many people who voted for trump in 2016 said they would have voted for bernie if he was the democratic elect

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

So its just an anti establishment tendency (misguided as that may be in the case of trump voters)

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Yesss that is exactly what I think

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 11w

Because the democrats running in red states aren’t socialist 😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Yeah no shit why do you think that is?

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 11w

Because the democrats have zero faith in socialists who are surprisingly more effective in practice than the spineless democrat drones they nominate

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

In what way what has a socialist done? Ig by no faith you mean they lose their primaries Ig your right.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Also democrats don’t have faith so they’re winning in the deepest blue areas? What lol

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 11w

The post is about SOCIALIST candidates running and how republican voters would support them. The issue I’m pointing out is democrats have no faith in them, so they don’t let socialist candidates run. That is exactly what happened with Bernie sanders when we was going to make a run.

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 11w

I’ll dumb it down as much as I can: democrats think blue states are more accepting of socialist policies when they experience them. Socialist runs and wins. In red states, democrats don’t think a socialist would be a good idea, so they don’t run a socialist candidate. Then they fucking lose because of their mid takes. If you want to see what a socialist could do if they were to run in a red state, TELL THE DEMOCRATS TO HAVE FAITH IN THEIR FUCKING CANDIDATES

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

It’s saying this option doesn’t work when you’ve literally never tried it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

What do you mean they “don’t run them” like they lose their primary or what? Ok so they haven’t don’t anything that’s just something you feel that’s fine.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Bernie sanders lost his primary if they’re losing their primaries they’re probably not gonna win the general.

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 11w

He lost his primary to Hillary and she fucking blew her run so that reslly just proves my point that democrats have zero faith in a route they’ve never taken, proceed to double down on a candidate with mid ass policies, and then lose anyway

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

My point being: the candidates the democrats are constantly running and losing all the godsamn always suck ass because the Democratic Party does not have any convincing policies outside of “we hate trump” we all hate trump. Mamdani didn’t run on an anti republican run he ran on a pro socialist run and he won because of that. Again, HE WON BY PRIORITIZING HIS POLICY ADVERTISEMENT OVER BEING ANTI REPUBLICAN

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Democrats haven’t been that popular because they’re only take is “trump bad” WE KNOW tell us something you will do better. Kamal did have some okay policies, but most of her run was “we hate trump” and the Republican Party is a personality club. Say something about trump and they will immediately dislike you. Instead just tell them ,without saying the obvious you hate trump line, what you are going to do to make their lives better. Mamdani did exactly that and it’s a major reason he won in spite

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Of the money both democrats and republicans used against him

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

He didn’t have to be anti Republican bc he wasn’t seriously competing against any Republicans bc he’s in New York lol. Idk every far left person on here turns into a Republican and they act like democrats never articulate their policy positions, when they do very clearly.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Idk this isn’t serious if we’re talking about Mamdani wining the Republican vote lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Kamala should have just ran for the mayor of New York she would never have to talk about republicans so true. Republicans can attack democrats with impunity and Kamala gives a reasonable amount of push back yet we’re finger wagging her. Meanwhile Trump and the Republican media are talking about how she fucked her way into political power and she’s “mentally impaired”.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

Even Mamdani will talk about how different democrats are good for different races in different regions. He’s 100% correct I just think it’s ironic how far left people on here are so anti “left bashing” yet they left bash more than anyone else. To a point we’re seriously being critical of Kamala for being critical of Trump.

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 10w

Because being critical of trump is a given. Being anti trump is not enough to be a good candidate. You have to have policies to support people. Otherwise, political parties are just a sports team. Wanting the democrats to be effective is not left-bashing. Also yes it’s a big deal that Mamdani won becusss of how many fucking republican politicians made a big deal about it. Not just trump or sliwa

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

It’s not a given Trump won the popular vote is normalized in society at this point. I don’t think most people could even articulate what’s wrong with Trump (beyond mean tweets) especially pre 2024. She did have policies idk why we’re pretending she didn’t. You don’t want them to be more effective you want to virtue signal and finger wag that she was a little critical of Trump. Why do you think they made a big deal about it??

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

It wasn’t bc Mamdani is an electoral threat everyone knew a democrat was going to win New York. They very obviously just wanted to rally their base bc a Muslim was winning New York and it was something their base could be upset about. Thats why Trump is pretty amicable towards him now. Meanwhile Trump is talking prosecuting Kamala and he prosecuted other political opponents.

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