• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      At the height of the presidential election campaign, I got down voted for pointing out at Fetterman and Tulsi Gabbard as examples that there are Democrats who flip, because they rail on “vote blue no matter who”. After Trump won his second term, I don’t see those die-hard types anymore. They finally admit that the Democratic party is compromised through and through, and that only a progressive takeover of the party will solve the problems that arose.

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        The problem is people are trying to beat republicans by being just like them. Republicans stand or kill their own. That created Trump, dems want to do the samething. Normal people need to start running again and need support.

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    This, ladies and gentlemen, is what grievance politics leads to. Jenk, Anna, Fetterman, Dore, etc, when you think of criticism as competition to get to the top, or you think of one person’s success as a lack of your own, the only path is towards right wing grift.

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    His noggin seems to be fully healed after his stroke: he’s now a fully-functional politician once again, with perfectly working lying, backstabbing, flip-flopping and sycophantic brain functions.

    Wish we all had access to this level of healthcare so we could all go back to performing our job to the fullest of our abilities like he does.

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      He ran around calling himself progressive and talking about all the progressive stuff the country needs…

      But all it took was a stroke and a little brain damage for him to go full maga, now he honestly and repeatedly says he doesn’t understand why people ever thought he was progressive.

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        I think the brain damage made him forget that he was willfully lying about being progressive.

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    I think this is a lesson for those of us who support economic populism: even though many, if not most Americans agree on many economic issues, we don’t agree on everything. I don’t know that we can say we have a majority consensus movement. I think there is a movement that has a plurality, and that’s the Trump movement. As much as many of us might find that pretty disheartening, I think it is nonetheless true. Of the two main populist movements in the US, the progressive populist movement is simply not as large as the right-wing, Trump populist movement. I don’t know if people like Fetterman are just more aligned with the Trump movement ideologically, or if they’re moving to the larger populist movement for strategic reasons.

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    He doesn’t cycle till 2028, so this isn’t tactical, it’s strategic. Maybe Fetterman looks toward national office? Anyway, I hope he’s making a mistake, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

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    6 hours ago

    This is what happens when liberals VBNMW and ignore the shot they did in their past.

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    Does anybody know the political leanings of his healthcare team after that stroke? Did they influence his fractured mind as it was healing? I wonder if ‘stroke’ is the new doublespeak word for reconditioning at a CIA black site.

    spoiler

    /jokes for the too-serious minded.