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Easy. Support will of the voters.

From the vicious, vile, rabid fandom that's been harassing, doxxing and threatening us since 2016, I say they can fuck off. Their "bend the knee" BS for 10 years is poisonous to our party ( the party they hate btw). They're on their own as far as I'm concerned. No money. No volunteering.

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I think we all know they will continue to make the wrong choices.

Sir, I am a white male Bernie supporter (c. 2016-2020), I'm not an expert on why black voters are so adamently against progressives, but that's just more reason to show out **FOR** black and other minority voters. The only idea I have is to prove to everyone that life doesn't have to suck.

I do not trust any poll suggesting that Michigan voters prefer Stevens. She had no ground game, no strategy, no agenda, and the strongest support of her I heard is that she helped negotiate the auto bailout almost 20 years ago. Rodgers couldn’t beat Slotkin when Trump was on the ballot.

Stop lying and gaslighting. We know what “progressives” did in 2024. Fucking uncommitted/leave it blank traitors.

Good article. I would rather they leave the party than the constant whining.

When I say "DSA is a cancer" I'm referring to their strategy of taking over the Democratic Party. (see Maurice Isserman) These are some things that might come up in a general election that a DSA or DSA-adjacent candidate might want to prep for.

No. Wrong. THIS kind of thinking brought us this moment. No more.

They will work with Republicans to try to defeat their own candidate. Thats what they do. That’s what Israel wants them to do.

There's a certain type of corrupt "moderate Democrat" who wants to build that coalition and win. There's another type of corrupt "moderate Democrat" who wants to stay in the minority and do crimes.

In reality, all of the DSA candidates will, if elected, pivot toward the center in order to get things done and build alliances. Much like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, who drive change incrementally and vote party line. Bonus: you get reps that are less beholden to corporate interests.

Who said weirdos? My problem with DSA is there lack of ground game. My local Dem party has people Out knocking on doors. Doing voter registration. Hosting candidate forums. I’d don’t see that from DSA. I see them relying on the work in communities Democrats they disparage are doing.

Trying to label all candidates is a bad strategy. This is how you lose every swing state.

Seems like the consulting class Democrats and the establishment Democrats have already made up their mind and going forward will continue to minimalize arguably the biggest progressive movement we have seen in these modern times

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If "centrist" dems went after republicans with the same intensity they go after the DSA, we'd never lose an election again.

New in Realty: Influencers have a choice to make You can spend the next three months doing this reinforcing Republican messaging about the Democrats and making it less likely Dems take power. Or you could put your attention whoring and grifting off for a while and do what you can to help Dems win.

how much shade do you think Schumer and Jefferies are gonna throw? I imagine it will be a lot because their support is conditional on not upsetting the apple cart.

Well they've already chosen the first one, so act accordingly.

This was a good read. And I think this is the turning point for Dems. We're in 2026 and we can all see how bad the Repubs have made our daily lives. And I also think that if AES continues to do and say the things he has been, he has a good chance of beating Rogers. Rogers lost last time.

Amen. Amen amen amen amen. No one wins when we lose. Because math.

True- not sure what the hell happened to him- maybe someone offered him more money than he's ever seen before.

The left wants to take on the money and power of the obscenely rich. The centrists want to cash their checks. That's why they oppose the left. They're protecting their capitalist masters and preserving the gravy train.

Duh. There's a reason why these SD are succeeding in primaries. What they are saying is Very. Very. Popular. So MD are just going to have to abandon their cozy, lucrative relationships with PACs and Corporations or face extinction.

I heard a rumor there are several today. Take your pick.

This ☝️, this is serious, dems need to focus on what’s important here and not be baited and divided by suspect accounts and bots online, the created divide spills out and is picked up by legacy media and RW media, the rest is history.

After Graham Platner got knocked out of the race for the US Senate, it was said of all the candidates that "they sound like Platner". The discussion window has distinctly moved Left.

We need to ditch the labels and look at results. Who cares what free childcare is called? We would never have new inventions without ideas.

Republicans succumbed to a single power structure. Now there's couple of Democrats in Congress trying grab all the power for themselves and freeze out everyone else. Their messaging sucks, it's almost nonexistent. Republicans are going at it hot and heavy. Dems have to embrace all the factions.

From my experience, it’s the leftists who are whining about traditional liberals. I will vote like hell for DSA-approved candidates if they win our party’s nomination at any level, but I have no confidence they’ll do the same on behalf of moderate nominees.

The "soul of the party" framing was AES's idea.

Exactly

BINGO!

I fucking HATE Blue Dogs. The last Democrat to win anything that already wasn't bolted down in my state was Joe Donnelly and he only won on a technicality. Got smashed in reelection showing it was a fluke.

The dems in Michigan can feel good about nominating someone that will take care of them, but unless they are 100% dedicated to fighting the trump criminal machine, there won't be anything to take care of.

Win first. Republicans understand this. Americans like winners, and guts. Every time Democrats roll over on their own, they show weakness and lose.

The corrupt genocidal “centrist” Democrats would rather have Trump in power than support the “left” because that’s what their donors want.

Democrats are not the problem. They will largely come around. Getting purple state independents to vote for candidates who self identify as socialists is the challenge.

You mean like “uncommitted?” Like the whiny ass left has been doing for a decade? Spare me your bullshit

They do not want the dirty masses to know that our government creates our currency and banks create loans. So everything gets paid for either by government spending or bank lending Thus the need for the myth that tax payers create our national currency

No, fuck that, we're not caving into demands from a bunch of spoiled children who don't have any accomplishments and don't understand how things work.

The fact that they are whining about 'the left' says a whole lot about where the whiners are at in comparison.

Did you act indignant about a rally? Yes you did. You don’t get to act indignant about anything, you are the worst of Blue MAGA.

And they're far more interested in fighting for control of our party instead of the country.

And just to be clear. A party with a soul would state unequivocally and unanimously, we will end medical bankruptcy, we will establish a living wage that increases automatically with inflation, we will end our support for Israel’s military, we will aggressively address climate change. Bare minimum.

So you want to help republicans.

The other half of the message is that moving left—strategically, with issues that energize voters—is the only viable way to accomplish this, in the short-term and longer-term. Tacking to the center has proven to be a losing strategy, with temporary wins at best. The Biden era is a cautionary tale.

Fighting fascism, was what voting against president Project2025 was all about….Project2025 is what is happening now, and Trump is not voluntarily leaving. Coup 1.0 failed. GOP are lazer focused on ensuring Coup 2.0 is successful.

Don’t worry, they’ll make the wrong choice. They always do.

This is such BS. Waldman wants moderate Dems to support progressives if they win primaries, but the problem is that too often the opposite does not occur (progressives don't support moderate Dems - remember Harris losing to Trump?)

Or they can listen to the backbone of the party, Black voters, who have been right from the jump.

Yes! This!

Left wing too busy fighting itself to fight the right wing. Sounds familiar. Hello from the UK guys, we've been historically good at that too. Good luck sorting yourselves out, only advice is for every one of you to decide whether your priority is purity, revenge or stopping the fascists.

These leftists* are loud about what they are FOR rather than just running against 7rump/GOP. And the consulting class fears for their gravy train. *That shiver you felt was a collective eye-roll from Europe.

Where’s my vote blue no matter who crowd? Oh they’re all on twitter still?

That can only happen if you actually have real policy goals and how you realistically plan to achieve them. Some folks only have hate and lies to sell. Easier to over promise things to white folks who like to be lied to despite knowing there is no actual plan on how to implement those goals.

Im not trying to be funny, but if anyone feel like any of this sht is normal, they are not paying attention. Theres no way someone in their right mind will vote for it to remain the same.

Yeah that's literally what the article says, you just disagree about which shoe is on which foot because you haven't been paying attention.

I like HOW THE LEFT responds with massive toxic shit to this comment. Lolol

Ironic considerimg someone was just screaming that I'm a genocider at me? Lol If the choice is "blindly support the left that pours hate on moderates for the next 5 months" that may be a losing fight for the left. To quote the left, you may have to CONVINCE moderate voters you dont hate them.

What makes me despair about America, more than anything, is the endless civil war amongst the Democrats.

The moderate (republican without the pedophilia) dems will screw it up and the point at the people trying to do actual democratic things and say they should have voted differently.

I live in Illinois. We’ve always had to choose between the least unpleasant candidate. People need to get over themselves, hold their nose if necessary, and vote for the party that isn’t trying to kill us.

Well asked. That is the correct question. It should be everyone against trump and magats. Easy.

Don’t waste your time reading this nonsense. It’s meant to divide. Pure propaganda.

There's a correct decision here and I don't entirely trust them to make it

It's the best of the people who want the job

Any Dem lawmaker who engages a left vs. center Dem fight is wasting time and resources. We are trying to take down a racist, fascist authoritarian regime, there's no time right now for inter-party bickering. Period.

Republicans coalesced around an incompetent fascist, why shouldn't democrats coalesce around people urging something currently practiced by the countries with the world's highest standards of living?

Democrats vote for Democrats. No hyphrnated descriptors needed in front of Democrat. Push whatever narrative you want, the base of the party always put in the work and we recognize our electeds who do the job. Chaos is the perfect time for opportunist. Choose wisely people.

i want the fight now. a major political realignment is under way. the ideas need to be tested by an election before 2028. it’s better it happens now rather during an even more consequential election. at most we lose 2 years of what will mostly likely be the inability to stop T.

Are you listening, Daniel Goldman?

Moderate Democrats are just imperialists. Imperialism=slavery. I get that most Americans love the shit out of slavery as long as it is happening in other countries, but I don’t. VBNMW is dumb AF. Vote for progress, or you’re just a shill for the status quo violence of imperialism and capitalism.

Ditto holds for the progressive wing, correct?

Aaron, given that substack is a rightwing platform that not only supports Trump but also has promoted accounts like rapist Andrew Tate… does Public Notice have an alternative? leavesubstack.com

More like a battle of no soul/expediency vs. a creed of progressive democracy. Corporate democrats should realize that there is road back to Clintonian triangulation if the progressives win this round. If the fascists win, game over.

Or they could stop reinforcing the "taxpayer money" myth and start explaining that government doesn't need to "afford" anything. That's how you win. Stop fighting on their terms. Fiat means choices. Start making the right ones.

I suspect that they are more concerned with the gravy train being shut down than they are with ideology.

This wouldn’t be a hard choice if they could read the room but they’ll side with corporations every time

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"Vulgar dishonesty" is the perfect description of centrists' attacks on progressives right now. You can see it everywhere in the attacks on AES

Looking at you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov I wish you would support your duly elected candidates like republicans do for theirs

That goes for ALL Dems and unaffiliated. Vote blue no matter who!

I don’t care who the Dem is, vote for them. Do not sit home! This regime must be defeated. Power first, change after. No power, no change.

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What is the soul of the party? Medicare for all? Or the fear that Medicare for all is an election loser? It seems insane to continue building the party around fear.

Can someone even tell me what makes Abdul not a moderate Dem but a left Democrat. I'm seriously unable to tell the difference anymore other than media giving them a title of socialist. I don't know one moderate Democrat that doesn't want some type of Medicare expansion

Or they can let the individual candidates run on policies that reflect their constituents. In the midwest you run as a moderate and if you're living in NYC then you're going to run to the left. What is the big deal. It's actually the center left news that's helping Fox News make this a problem.

Most progressive democrats - including AOC and Bernie - are social democrats, not socialists, regardless of the labels. There's endless yammering about centrist, moderate, and leftist Democrats, with hardly a word about actual policies. What are the big divides? Who can play in the WNBA?

We are in the upside down, and true blue here.. the difference is opportunists! Some "moderates"... listen and learn from the whole party, and can put their feet in others shoes, come together with diversity, also everyone to their own uniqueness, no one should be shoved aside!

Voters can tell which side means it in the fight against Trump

If we replaced “Moderate Democrats” with “Liberal Democrats,” the rest of the quote would have worked in 2016 and 2024, too. Everyone always has a choice to make: do they want to die of a theory or win elections.

The percentage of such “far left” people is infinitesimal. Ask most Americans who don’t vote. They aren’t “far left.”

Jesus Christ, delete your account you Epsteinite BlueMAGA freak