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      3 months ago

      If democrats just accept that they’re going to have turncoats in the legislature, they don’t get to demand perfect lockstep from voters. They can’t keep control of a couple hundred people, but expect to scold millions into voting for them no matter what they do.

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          3 months ago

          We’re going to nominate someone who does things you find abhorrent. We will put all our resources into making certain that no one who prioritizes what you prioritize makes it through the primaries, and not really give much of a shit about the general. We will shout abuse at you for all criticism, demand but never think of earning your vote, and blame you every time we lose, regardless of how you vote.

          We will fervently and lovingly kiss the asses of the worst republicans of the previous decades just to gloat about how far to the right we’ve taken the party.

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                  3 months ago

                  Your shitty wing would have lost by more.

                  My wing doesn’t support genocide.

                  People thought Kamala was too far left. The only people insisting she was too far right wouldn’t have turned out to vote regardless.

                  She tried to court them and only them anyway.

                  EDIT: misread as “not far enough to the right.” If people who thought she was too far to the right were so insignificant that they could be safely ignored, they’re too insignificant to blame for the loss she earned by moving to the right to please your shitty wing of the party.