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[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

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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  • [–] 3 points 1 week 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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