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    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      38·
      3 months ago

      this is genius. make them attack the idea of americana itself (this dude is pretty normal, like me - why they say he craycray?). thats gonna turn the stomachs of quite a few people and show them that progressive poilitics are their politics.

      I am really fucking impressed with the Democratic party right now. they are still not yet my friends, but they just got “a whole lot more less worse”

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    3 months ago

    I feel like this was their talking point regardless of who got picked, just like Trump constantly says Kamala had the most radical leftist record in Congress…lmao

    The only thing that would’ve changed if she picked Shapiro is that they would’ve constantly made fun of him for sounding like Obama… which was hilarious when the Daily Show pointed it out… but Fox would’ve taken it to extreme levels because its exactly the sort of “sleepy joe” storyline they’ve been looking for to keep the MAGA name-calling/bully contingent placated.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      342·
      3 months ago

      They called Biden and Hillary fucking communists…

      It’s actually a good thing for progressives, because when we do actually run a progressive, they don’t have anywhere else to go.

      They’ll say the same about anyone with a D by their name, so we might as well run progressives.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    381·
    3 months ago

    AOC and Manchin quickly indicated their support. Representing the spectrum of Democrats

  • geekworking@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 months ago

    They have burned out their own bullshit.

    When every single opponent is the most radical left extremist who ever walked the face of the earth, it becomes meaningless ramblings even to their base. Just like crooked Hilary, Obama, Biden, Harris.

    • quicklime@lemm.ee
      6·
      3 months ago

      tbh as far as I can tell their base is still eating it up and coming back for seconds. it’s hard to fathom.

  • GreenBottles@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 months ago

    “Radical Left” is the most worn out and stupid insult the right uses. It means nothing when you use it for everything.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
      110·
      3 months ago

      Ah, but one could make an argument that the left does the same thing with the use of the word progressive,

      • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        Progressive is general, radical left is specific. Anything progressive is progressive, not everything left is radical

  • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 months ago

    Its completely baffling to me that anyone takes Republicans seriously. All they do is obstruct any and all legislation so that nothing can ever get done. And once someone actually manages to help people through legislation they try to spin it like somehow feeding kids is a bad thing.

    At this point I’m pretty convinced ‘republican’ is a mental illness.

  • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    That attack might have a little more juice if they didn’t deploy it against every single Democrat in the last 60 years, including Joe fuckin’ Biden.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      Radical Marxist Joe Biden and his milquetoast neoliberal policies of checks notes spending money on infrastructure and tightening border controls is clearly Communist /s

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    14·
    3 months ago

    These screeds just aren’t remotely believable anymore. When Trump goes all in calling Harris a “horror show,” it’s either “That’s just plainly not true” or “If that’s true, why did you never even mention her name until after July 21, 2024?”

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    13·
    3 months ago

    This is why I like Harris’s new strategy better. A bunch of the Democrats seem like they’re still back in the 1970s expecting something coherent and non-violence-and-lies based to come out of the GOP. Pelosi needs to stop doing that.

    You guys (meaning the establishment Democrats) are making excuses for a dangerous animal, and normalizing its behavior, when you try to deal with it as if it was a domesticated pet and get surprised when it doesn’t act accordingly.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    11·
    3 months ago

    You start feeding children and the weirdos in the GOP will start calling you everything in the book.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      6·
      3 months ago

      you could rally to build walls and for deregulation and tax cuts with a D near your name and they would say your the most extreme leftist ever

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    3 months ago

    “Really, it’s mystifying to me to see someone that I worked with — shall we say right down the middle — characterized on the left in this regard.”

    Basically an admission that Dems are center and not Left.