Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Barf
She doesn’t have a choice because the party isn’t allowing a primary.
They know they have a captive audience. As shitty as Biden is, he’s obviously better than any Republican and 3rd party doesn’t have a chance.
The party would rather risk depressing turnout than someone progressive winning a primary
There is no progressive that could win the primary anyway. The risk the establishment is guarding against is about damaging Biden. I don’t feel confident about his chances against anyone but Trump, but there just isn’t an alternative politician with the strength to challenge him as an incumbent. He simply hasn’t been bad enough for weakly ideological primary voters to vote against the incumbent and the names with the biggest progressive gravitas already lost against him last time without that hindrance.
In 2020 29 candidates entered the Dem primary…
I’m pretty sure most are still around here somewhere
But between this in your other reply I already got, I’m picking up a pattern
Systems broken, it’s her only option. If she endorses a progressive challenger to Biden she is basically saying she wants trump or desantis to be the next president. I am sure she is aware of this
Vote in more progressive candidates to congress and the house so that actual electoral reform has a hope of passing. The small contingency they hold is pointless from a legislative standpoint but promising in terms of growth over the past decade and a half or so. The more bodies we get in there the more actual shit might happen; but unless we displace neolibs and conservatives these stupid games will continue to be necessary
