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‘They chose the billionaire’: Tim Walz returns to Minnesota as part of ‘revenge’ tour
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Honestly, every time the only criticism of Ken Martin is him saying he wouldnt refuse donations from a billionaire, I feel a lot more confident in him running the DNC.
Guy ran a state party for years, resulting in not just Dem gains, but progressive Dems...
And the only thing you all can find on the guy is him saying he would accept donations from some billionaires while campaigning for DNC chair....
Like, the obvious reason he was asked that in the first place was he's progressive and saying "no billionaires" would make him lose, and if he won the sound bite could be used to turn voters away from the new more liberal DNC.
Do you just not see any of that?
You don't have the slightest inkling that mainstream media (owned by conservative billionaires) turning on the DNC could possibly mean that good things happened at the DNC?
If it was a neoliberal running things, we wouldn't see any criticism of the DNC from major news organizations
I'm not referring to Ken Martin saying that.
Then you don't understand how the DNC operates.
He is the chair effective about a month ago, he has all the power and is accountable to no one as chair.
He literally and figuratively is the DNC now
I think commenter was probably talking about this
That's a pretty low opinion of them....
That's obviously not the DNC
Ken also selected Elissa Slotkin to rebut Trumps speech. Lets dig into her wikipedia and related links, maybe that will show us why Ken picked her and what his new direction is for the party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Slotkin
Caucus memberships: New Democrat Coalition "who take a pro-business stance and a liberal-to-moderate approach to fiscal matters."
Problem Solvers Caucus "equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, with the Caucus' stated goal of fostering bipartisan cooperation on key policy issues." "The Problem Solvers Caucus developed over time as an outgrowth of informal meetings organized by the group No Labels". "chaired by Joe Lieberman."
Oh, Joe Lieberman, the reason the united states could not get to a public option. Neat! Who better for Ken to select. I guess if the new DNC chairman couldnt get Joe Liberman himself (cause he is dead) Slotkin is a close enough standin.
And whats Slotkin been doing since the rebuttal speech?
She's been trying to kick progressives in the face. Some great "change" at the DNC there eh? "Senate Democrat questions what Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez have ‘actually done’ "
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5207337-slotkin-sanders-ocasio-cortez/
and of course, Slotkin is a self described zionist. Seems to be a rabbid one. We Dems have a proud tradition of being completely bought out and owned by far right genociders in a foriegn country thats committing daily war crimes with our weapons, why stop that now? Good job Ken.
Yeah thats clearly a real turnaround at the DNC, thanks givesomefucks for the keen insights on how nothing will fundamentally change at the DNC under Ken Martin. I'm excited. Onward to victory in the next elections!
So it's not enough for neoliberals to be out of power....
You wanted them to stop existing?
No one has time for this bud, if you want to keep helping fascists go for it, but you're going to quickly find the only people not blocking you, are only out looking for slap fights
Are you claiming the dem coalition can only exist if the neolibs lead it? I think progressive ideas have always defined the party in peoples eyes, and centrists are soft or lite on everything and rotate between dem and republicans as they please. They dont want to lead anyone anywhere in particular, so they cant lead.
And its not me destroying the party, its the centrsists like you. I'm not the one who caused losses across every voting demographic in the last election, so stop trying to blame others for the outcome of your failed philosophies.