• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    he’s really cashing out at the end of his career isnt he. What a traitorous arsehole. People like him are why the democratic party is on the rocks.

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      18 hours ago

      Yep. I’m prepared to fight like hell in the primary, if we get one, to make sure he doesn’t make it on the ballot. If we don’t topple establishment leadership at the DNC this election though, they will force Newsom through regardless of what the primary shows, like with Bernie. The bigger fight is now.

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          10 hours ago

          Ken Martin, they promoted him from running Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, which is our local Democratic party and generally is a bit left of the national party. I don’t know how progressive Martin himself is versus how much just kinda happened under him because of the party itself - Governor Tim Walz signed off on a lot of progressive stuff because he briefly oversaw a DFL trifecta and he and his party were willing to spend political capital to make good things happen but I wouldn’t consider Walz to be super progressive on his own.

          Ken Martin is cause for a bit of optimism, he’s more progressive, but he may just be an amorphous blob of whatever machine he’s in front of.

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            9 hours ago

            Possibly-amorphous-blob is still better than an establishment centrist who will screw over progressives like they did to Bernie.

            There’s a lot of leftward momentum right now, and as long as that isn’t actively hindered from the top, then I think we have reason to hope.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s not the end. I’d eat a random street hat if he doesn’t run for president. Pretty sure ego and ambition are secreted from his scalp and create his natural hair gel.