"Moderates must adopt the hard-ball tactics of the Left"
What the FUCK is he talking about are they really this fucking bent out over two or three senate members who won't vote their way? You fucking cheated through the entire primary!
The only reason progressives even matter is because your decrepit centrism can barely even beat Donald Trump on a good day! You can't play hardball when noone cares about you!
What the FUCK is he talking about
Democrats and Republicans just playing tug of war over the term "centrist". It doesn't mean anything more than that.
The only reason progressives even matter is because your decrepit centrism can barely even beat Donald Trump on a good day!
Everyone likes to pretend they are normal, reasonable, and popular and that their opponents are cringe, fanatic, weirdos.
Leftists would do well to use the term "Moderate Marxism" and juxtapose it against "Extremists in the Two Party System" every chance they get.
we can’t win playing politics adopting their framing bc the concept of being a moderate is always going to be a backdoor for a wide variety of reactionary views/positions
I think this is less and less true over time, as the political establishment lags farther behind the national consensus.
as long as the rich/right wing still has cultural hegemony
That's largely what's changed. Social conservativism is drying up.
Charlie Dent is a former Republican congressman
lol "hey dems take this advice I promise I'm just being pragmatic not pushing my own ideological agenda"
Citations Needed did a great episode on the phenomenon of "The Republican Best Friend."
Imagine a piece like this with the ideologies reversed. "Republicans need to stop processing children into pet food if they want to win over bleeding hearts within their own party."
