Sen. Chuck Schumer strongly backed Abdul El-Sayed after the progressive candidate’s slim victory in the Michigan primary and vowed that the Democratic “big tent” approach to intraparty feuds will succeed in taking back the Senate in the fall midterms.
The Senate Democratic leader told Punchbowl News he is 100% behind the newly minted nominee, even though the party’s political operation backed rival Rep. Haley Stevens in a contentious primary that El-Sayed narrowly won this week.
“What people don’t understand is that a big tent is a strength, not a weakness,” Schumer said. “It’s how you build a majority.”
Have you ever considered the reason we are here is because you haven’t learned yet?
I am absolutely one of the reasons we are here. I voted third party in a swing state in 2016.
Vote as far left on every ballot but vote for the candidate that actually has a chance. It’s that simple for me.
I too want the party pulled left. And the time to do that is in the primaries, which is exactly whats happening now.
How’d that primary strategy work out in 2024?
You are voting 3rd party in the primary but somehow fail to realize GOP and DNC are owned by the same interest. The illusion in the cave is that you think the DNC is left. (You call the DNC left of center above).
Voting to center right (DNC) when you want to be left of center will never shift American politics left. Trump is the boogeyman that gets you to abandon what you claim to stand for (progressivism).
MAGA co-opted the GOP by refusing to compromise. This shifted the GOP even further right. When progressives compromise the entire American political spectrum bell curve just shifts further right.
I understand that you think your approach will produce an immediate harm reduction. I am sure it will look that way, but the steady march to the right won’t stop if the left side of the spectrum caves while the right does not
You’re wrong about your history in a number or ways, and superglue has the right idea. You’re seeing the Democrats being pulled to the left right now, this very minute, and you still want to shoot yourself in the foot, and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If you can’t distinguish between the evils of the GOP and the lesser evils of the Democrats, you’re morally non-functional.
I do actually think their heart is in the right place. Sadly, that place is in a reality they want to exist, but doesn’t. Every time I engage even a little with them I get paragraphs of mental gymnastics. Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
What history? Be specific.
Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in what battle? I am not in your far right vs center right fight.
I obviously can distinguish between the GOP and DNC (my comment said if things changed it would appear to be an improvement).
The reality of arguing that the left needs to compromise and embrace the “lesser evils” of the DNC in the face of the evils of the GOP is that it hands the GOP a cudgel. Don’t propose ideas that are too left or the right will lash out. Meanwhile, the right has been orchestrating a conservative backslide for decades.
I do enjoy a good personal attack when one side can’t formulate anything of substance to say. If it makes you feel better to call me morally bankrupt, you can have it.
The thing is, what passes for the left in America has been compromising its values for decades. That is the constant drum beat. And here we are. Explain, why more of the same will change course.
Blah blah American Left is Actually Right blah blah, heard it all before. All of that is an oblivious response to precisely what I said, that actual Leftists are winning elections and primaries and running as Democrats. You’re currently taking over the party and you want to, what, complain that you have to? Is it too much for you?
If you want the takeover to continue, you keep backing Democrats so that every cycle, you can pull it further and further left, it’s that fucking simple. Online progressives are the most ADHD political thinkers in the damned world. You are busy taking a party over: finish the job, and part of finishing the job is not sabotaging the party for not being where you want it yet.