• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    when you can vote out establishment corporate Democrats in primaries

    the party fights against progressives in the primaries harder than it does against republicans in the general.

    • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      And? Progressives still win primaries all the time. If we had more people vote in them, and had more progressive candidates running, then more progressives would win regardless of what the Party wants. Republicans didn’t want Trump in 2016, they desperately tried to not have him, but the voters kept voting for him so he won the primary and became the party.