Shot: “Democrats need to move to the right to attract swing voters”
Chaser:
“He is below the lowest of the low, the ones who actually got beat in a primary,” [CNN analyst Harry Enten] said. “There is no historical analog to this. That is how unpopular John Fetterman is with Pennsylvania Democrats. There is basically no doubt in my mind that if Fetterman decides to run for re-election as a Democrat he will face a primary challenge, and it will be a very competitive one.”
He’s just this term’s Sinema/Manchin. The Dems always need a guy to take the heat for voting for the shit they want but their voters don’t.
The whole things insane to me that the party just allows people to vote against what it wants, like whenever it happens in the UK the party will just immediately sideline that person and minimise any power they have and threaten them with expulsion for it (everyone but the greens exclusively uses this against MPs voting to the left of what the party wants, but like still, it wouldn’t be accepted as an excuse)
What party wants and what it announces it wants are two different things.
I know but at least they dont have the excuse of “rogue MPs” bcs anyone who goes rogue from their actual interests gets drummed out in half a heartbeat
slightly different methods of pressure release. the dems need every excuse they can get for why good things aren’t possible because they’re the sole pressure release valve when things go bad. the westminster democracies have a different method i don’t really understand all that well.
The method is they say “fuck you, no” and the brits are so spirit broken that they decide their constantly worsening quality of life is probably the fault of the pronouns, fat people or food having halal stickers in the supermarket
so when you clear away all the superficial stuff england is just identical to the united states. thatcher and reagan, clinton and blair…
Yeah I made a post some time ago how from an outside-US perspective, the Dems are not really a party. They are more like a coalition and fundraising business.