Furious Democrats are pushing “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to primary Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he agreed to vote with Republicans to avoid a government shutdown, according to reports.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    544·
    14 hours ago

    MAGA took over the Republican Party for a reason if the progressives were able to organize their way out of a paper bag they could do it themselves.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      if the progressives were able to organize their way out of a paper bag

      Well, join them.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      221·
      13 hours ago

      MAGA took over the Republican Party for a reason

      That reason is that the GOP allowed them to. In 2016 the GOP held an extremely competitive primary and actively embraced MAGA as their new path to success, while the DNC decided to make sure a progressive doesn’t get the nomination again even at the cost of losing the election.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 hours ago

          He didn’t win the primary.

          Congratulations on your victory over the only people you’re interested in defeating.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          31·
          4 hours ago

          The Democratic Party needs to get it through their thick skulls that the voters who make up the margin of victory do not vote in Democratic primaries.

            • grue@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 hour ago

              They don’t vote in the general for a neoliberal.

              There’s this consistent condescending assumption that the Democrats have that anybody who refuses to vote for a neoliberal would never vote for any possible Democratic candidate, and it just isn’t true.