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Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« on: July 24, 2018, 01:41:41 pm »
Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.

Party members and fundraisers gathered for an invitation-only event to figure out how to counteract the rising progressive movement.

by Alex Seitz-Wald / Jul.22.2018 / 7:01 AM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading a leftist political revolt, then a summit here of moderate Democrats might be the start of a counterrevolution.

While the energy and momentum is with progressives these days — the victory of rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, buzz about Democratic Socialism and the spread of the "Abolish ICE!" movement are a few recent examples — moderates are warning that ignoring them will lead the party to disaster in the midterm elections and the 2020 presidential contest.

That anxiety has largely been kept to a whisper among the party's moderates and big donors, with some of the major fundraisers pressing operatives on what can be done to stop Sanders, I-Vt., if he runs for the White House again.

But the first-ever "Opportunity 2020" convention, organized here last week by Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank, gave middle-of-the-road party members a safe space to come together and voice their concerns.

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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2018, 05:51:15 pm »
Traditional democrats, if they still exist, have moved so far left in their Trump hatred, that they opened the door.  Now, they cannot shut it.

They really created a void that Bernie and Alexandra are all too happy to fill.

I hope that this will split the democrat vote in 2020 to the point that Trump, or whatever Republican, will win easily.  What a turnaround from 2016.
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2018, 01:47:29 am »
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Sumthin' tells me that the more they try to "stop it", the stronger support for the Sanders' marauders is gonna get...
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2018, 11:58:13 am »
Quote from: Emjay on July 24, 2018, 05:51:15 pm
Traditional democrats, if they still exist, have moved so far left in their Trump hatred, that they opened the door.  Now, they cannot shut it.

They really created a void that Bernie and Alexandra are all too happy to fill.

I hope that this will split the democrat vote in 2020 to the point that Trump, or whatever Republican, will win easily.  What a turnaround from 2016.
That split more than likely already started in 2016. After a decade of the Democrats using trade protectionism as a cudgel in congressional races, when Trump co-opted it in a nationalist platform, it helped peel off just enough of the working-class, union Democrats in PA, MI, WI to tip the vote in his favor (which is why I'm convinced all the Russia nonsense is just that).
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2018, 01:51:26 pm »
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2018, 02:16:03 pm »
"Traditional democrats"?  Who are they talking about?  Schumer, Pelosi, Feinstein, Warren, etc?  They've all become unhinged leftists.
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« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2018, 05:45:11 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 25, 2018, 01:51:26 pm


She didn't really say that, did she?  Boy, she is really stupid.
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2018, 05:46:45 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on July 25, 2018, 05:45:11 pm
She didn't really say that, did she?  Boy, she is really stupid.

I don't usually comment on appearances, but will make an exception for what appears to be vampire teeth. 
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« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2018, 05:49:02 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 25, 2018, 05:46:45 pm
I don't usually comment on appearances, but will make an exception for what appears to be vampire teeth.

She'll probably get that little problem fixed when she gets your money.
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2018, 05:51:47 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on July 25, 2018, 05:49:02 pm
She'll probably get that little problem fixed when she gets your money.

I thought she came from a well-to-do family?
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« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2018, 06:04:44 pm »
Quote from: Emjay on July 25, 2018, 05:45:11 pm
She didn't really say that, did she?  Boy, she is really stupid.

I am not for sure Alexandria  Paula Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Ocasio-Cortez said it.  But she has proven herself to have questionable intellect.
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Re: Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it.
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2018, 03:56:10 am »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 25, 2018, 06:04:44 pm
I am not for sure Alexandria  Paula Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Ocasio-Cortez said it.  But she has proven herself to have questionable intellect.

You have to have intellect for it to be questioned. Can we say she is brain dead, or as Archie Bunker used to say a meathead!
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« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2018, 04:01:57 am »
I was moose 1956.
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You have to have intellect for it to be questioned. Can we say she is brain dead, or as Archie Bunker used to say a meathead!
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